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Leathal Weapon 3 fix or flip?

By Jukester

2 years ago


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    #1 2 years ago

    I just acquired D.E. Lethal Weapon 3. The machine was inhabited by mice, and they did a number on parts of it. and most surprisingly, the boards in the back box are untouched. The previous owner had the machine stored with the top folded down, so the boards were on the ceiling of the mouse activity. The playfield can be saved, but it will need to be fully stripped, cleaned, and cleared. There is some cracking of the paint due to veneer expanding. But there is no loss of art / paint at this time. Approximately 3% of the wiring is chewed, the rest cleans up great. Almost ALL the metal in the playfield is rusted. I am treating the internal cabinet with enzymatic cleaner in an attempt to remove the mouse urine smell. Ultimately, the particle board should be knocked out of the bottom and the rear panel of the back box and replaced with new wood. The front door, lock rail, glass is all there. The only missing part is the cash box. This machine was nearly new when it was stored improperly. What a shame. So here is the question - what's it worth as it sits? Thanks in advance

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    #2 2 years ago

    Oof, I just saw the latest few pics. That is pretty rough. I assume that the wiring is similarly corroded on the bottom?
    I just canned the rest of my early post. I picked up one like that minus the transformer, boards and with the art stripped for $150. There are some parts I would definitely be interested in, but you might as well build a machine from scratch instead of saving that thing. I guess if the playfield is somehow salvageable it might be worth becoming a huge project, but I suspect dissection is the most rational approach at this point.

    #3 2 years ago

    Well after a bunch of tedious back breaking work you'll never recoup your time or monies for you'll be the proud owner of a LW3

    List it for 750 and see what happens

    #4 2 years ago

    The lights came on at the seller's home and that's all I tried. There are some chewed wires, so I didn't try to boot the game out of not wanting to destroy the driver board. Under playfield is surprisingly good. The cabinet isn't a loss. The bottom can back can be replaced without great difficulty. Well, not a big deal for me, anyway. The rest of the cabinet is plywood and undamaged. I'm just so busy with jukebox restorations that I really don't have time to fool with this thing. But it seems like way too good of a machine to part out.

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    #5 2 years ago

    The bottom of the playfield looks a lot better than I would expect from the top.

    #6 2 years ago

    If you were local I'd give you $750 for it. I'm working on a JM and a RS that were in similar condition. It's a lot of work and some expense, but worth it if you enjoy restoring games..... which I do.

    #7 2 years ago

    Oh hell yeah! Fix that up...I would have loved to have mine in this condition when I started. This is an easy one to fix up.
    This is where I started...
    https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/new-project-lethal-weapon-3

    #8 2 years ago
    Quoted from Jukester:

    The lights came on at the seller's home and that's all I tried. There are some chewed wires, so I didn't try to boot the game out of not wanting to destroy the driver board. Under playfield is surprisingly good. The cabinet isn't a loss. The bottom can back can be replaced without great difficulty. Well, not a big deal for me, anyway. The rest of the cabinet is plywood and undamaged. I'm just so busy with jukebox restorations that I really don't have time to fool with this thing. But it seems like way too good of a machine to part out. [quoted image][quoted image][quoted image]

    Fix it.
    Pinballs prices are skyrocketing.
    In 5 years that LW3 is probably gonna be 3x the value. It’s already a mid-3k game lately.
    I absolutely LOVE my LW3, that game is outrageously good! It’s so fun and just easy to get into.
    Parting out games in today’s market is silly. Lots of people are remaking parts but nobody is remaking these old games! Every few months Pinball prices are floating up by hundreds. It’s hard to keep up.

    #9 2 years ago

    Couldn’t pay me to take that.

    If it somehow ended up in my hallway, I’d sell it ASAP for whatever I could get for it.

    YMMV. everybody has different tolerances foe the size of a project they’ll take on.

    #10 2 years ago

    A few wires and rat crap. For some they run. But getting a few 5 gallon jugs of cleaner and either better ramps or bead blast the metals re chromed or do some different. Now i don't have smell of vision so it may be worse then it looks. I get it good to play and clean, not stink. I'm not trying to be HEP.

    10k+ by Christmas get working.

    #11 2 years ago

    I think once you remove the parts, you will find the playfield useless
    I'd part it out

    #12 2 years ago

    Just my experience with a t2. It was a machine I should not have bought for $300. Yes $300. It was a massive project and in the end I spent just as much money as buying a used working game would have been. Sometimes you have to realize the amount of work and effort for a cheap game is just not worth it. Unless you want to restore it for fun. (And thats hours of your life out the window). I would part it out or pass it along.

    #13 2 years ago
    Quoted from Loganpinball:

    Just my experience with a t2. It was a machine I should not have bought for $300. Yes $300. It was a massive project and in the end I spent just as much money as buying a used working game would have been. Sometimes you have to realize the amount of work and effort for a cheap game is just not worth it. Unless you want to restore it for fun. (And thats hours of your life out the window). I would part it out or pass it along.

    Spending endless hours restoring these games is the fun part!!!

    #14 2 years ago

    It only endless hours if you don't know what your doing. Then have no plan keeping it and you in it for easy money. To be junked would be crime pass it on to some one would love this fixer up. Its only being rained on because it a date east game. That were a system 11 game you have 100 people at blows and stupid money over this.

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