I just picked one up yesterday at auction.
Working, mint inner glass, cabinet-average, playfield-decent.
It's still in my truck. Once I unload it and set it up, I'll snap a few pictures.
Plan on putting it next to my HH and BH.
Reading through all these posts, I'm super excited to set it up and go through it.
I know for sure that I need some drop targets, the ones in it are a mix of various generic ones.

Checked all fuses for proper sizes, tested all coil resistances, all good except the knocker, cut that wire temp. cleaned all connectors on the board. Tested voltages on power supply, all good.
Fired her up. credits added but the start switch wouldn't register and without the start switch I couldn't get into switch test.
Checked out the wiring, connectors and mpu. Previous alkaline damage to mpu has damaged some sections of the board. I have a corrosion repair kit from a previous black hole that I'll end up putting to use.
I went upstairs and grabbed the mpu out of black hole and swapped the rom and installed it.
She's up and playing after a few tweaks.
So far , I'm loving it. I rebuilt the flippers and they play much better.
It is quite dirty but not worn much.
I couldn't resist changing out the painted red bulbs to red LEDs. The inner glass is perfect and the leds shine off the mirror brightly.
Six of the drops are red but don't match the pop caps. two are generic yellow and one broke on my second game. lol.
4 player display is out but comes on when I wiggle the cap on its display PCb.
Snapped a few quick pics. I think she will clean up nice.
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With the original board, it boots, goes into attract , start switch won't work.
I have new connectors and pins. I usually replace them on all gottliebs I do.
Game plays with my black hole board so the connectors are good enough for now.
I do most of my own board repairs, so when I get back from this snowstorm( power lineman heading to Mass.) I'll look into my corrosion and switch troubles.
What I really need to do is get and/or make a decal for the outer glass. Mine is flaking and it won't be around long.

I'm working on repairing my mpu and getting ready to shop mine.

My inner glass is perfect, but the art on my outer glass is starting to peel.

Has anyone, or can anyone make a water slide decal for this?

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Tackled my battery corrosion today and used my new Hakko de soldering gun to replace z11 chip.
How I ever did board repair without this gun I'll never know.
She now fires up and plays without issue.
Just need to tackle that one flaky display, order drop targets from Steve and tear this down and shop it.