Quoted from Skypilot:I run into this issue every time I have a pinball machine in my possession. I find pins I like to restore. If I see another locally at a fair price I will get it and use it as a fallback for board issues or population of the playfield questions. when the restoration is complete I shop the other pin.
My issue is that I'm selling this pin,all I need to do is clean it up and make it play well. Why can't I just do that ? I tear shit down that does not need to be torn down. Am I the only one who does this? How do you draw the line and say good enough?
This is why I pretty much stopped doing anything other than full blown restoration work.
It is really hard to do lesser versions even when that would be perfectly acceptable .