Have a trade worked out to trade my Party Animal for a Lethal Weapon 3. Game plays fine and no wear on the playfield, just normal scuffs or whatever on the cabinet. Needs some work for the GI lighting on the main driver board. Guy has already replaced one connector and thinks pins just need to be resoldered on the connector(s). Think it's the upper GI lights that are out.

I've reviewed the repair guides and that seems to be the likely repair steps. Take a look at the pics I have and tell me what you think and your thoughts on the repairs needed.

Thanks!

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Heading out to make the trade. Can't wait to play new pinball and go over the game this afternoon while watching football and drinking.

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So the GI lighting and playfield/back glass flashers work. It's the CPU controlled lamps and back glass lamps that are out. Need to check that fuse, but I think a few lamps work, so wouldn't be the fuse in that case. Will test the transistors for the lamps on the CPU board tonight. But otherwise the game plays great, which is the most important.

Cabinet itself looks very nice and the playfield does not have any wear at all. Just needs a good cleaning, new rubber and some LEDs once I get the lamps working.

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Plastics look good, with the exception of one cracked and one chipped. But the cracked one isn't noticeable, I only saw it when changing a flasher bulb. The left extra ball hole has chipped plastic above the hole.

Also want to paint the gun shooter because the chrome type finish is faded and flaking. Thinking of painting it black instead of silver.

Also noticed occasional dot or small vertical line on the DMD. Need to update the CPU and display roms since they are still at the original revisions, so maybe reseating the display roms will fix it. Already reseated the connectors, but no luck on that easy fix.

Yeah, that gun looks much better black. Unless mine started out black too and it all wore off?

No, I drove 2 hours east instead for the trade,

What paint did you use, if you remember? How has it held up?

Yeah it was in DE. You'd remember the graffiti basement if it was the same place. No issues with the flippers and the DMD works...on some screens that is a dot or small vertical line on the left side, might get fixed when I replaced the display roms... and game plays fine. CPU controlled lamps are out, but I'll be able to fix that soon enough - good challenge for me anyway. Topper is just a blue dome, so I'll replace it. Once I get the lights working I will see if the light motor spins on the topper.

Not sure I would have traded F14 for it though. Trade and sale prospects are better with that than a relatively unknown Party Animal.