My Congo is broken.Update:7/04/13 Kinda working.

No. I questioned $2,100 as a price for a game that might need board work. Since I answered the question myself, I think you can assume it was rhetorical.

I literally say $2,100 is what some examples would sell for, but not broken.

I appreciate your opinion, but what does that have to do with the price of the game?

Also, I've owned Congo.

Not sure if this statement is silly or sarcastic? You must be the David Koresh of Congo pinball.

Good luck!

You can rebuild it, better, stronger, faster! Good luck!

I found Milwaukee Sawzalls work better on Congo's

Congo's have been hot for the last year or so and jumped quite a bit in price, and not easily to find. So I guess supply and demand like with all games, plus a great game flow with one of the coolest multiball kickouts really made this game come to light out of the closet. Condition pending of course they have been recently selling anywhere from 2.5k - 4.8k.

Nah. These things are pretty rare and sell for way more. Jrivelli getting $3500 is proof.

It's not actually. One sale isn't proof of anything.

Then what about the other sale on pinside for $3,100? Or another locally here that just went for $2,500 in routed shape?

Don't me start searching....

Wish I was closer

It's a bummer if you can't afford the prices of pins. But that doesn't change the market. If we can sell them for ~$3500 then yes, that's the market.

Check up front in the auxiliary power supply. The Varistor (sp) or thermistor could have been going bad and finally died.

You are quoting a few high sales, I can quote a few low sales... again, so what?

This quote sums you up in a nutshell. You have this NEED to feel superior over people. You don't know me, how many pins I have, or what I do for a living. Yet, it makes you feel so good to assume I can't afford them and you can, doesn't it? This is probably the 100th time you've made a comment like this. I think Congo is a $2,100 game. I'm sure it's sold for more, but trying to find a correlation between that and my income is kinda insane, right?

Oh wait, just like the other 100 times, you're just joking? This is your sense of humor.

Sounds more and more like the 5v Bridge and Cap

Actually, scratch that. You guys just replaced the CPU board and left the same Power Driver in and it worked well?

No, not at all. That just makes the possibility of it being a BR and Cap issue on the power/driver board very slim. Did you use the same connectors and ribbon cables that were in your game when you guys hooked up?

We need LTG back in here or Robert to show up with some good advice. They always seem to be 'the man' with these sort of things.

The game roms can't cause resetting. If it were me, I might reflow the solder on the CPU board power connector pins. Otherwise, its time to get the CPU board schematic out and start figuring out what's involved in the power and watchdog circuit. If you want your game working ASAP, you can buy a new CPU board, get yours fixed and sell yours off after.

Except I never said any of this. Where did I say I can afford anything or talk about myself at all? I am assuming you can't afford them because you are often extremely low on every price thread which shows you are in emotional disbelief regarding current market prices. Congo is a less than a week sale over $3000. If you can buy them at $2100, keep doing that and flipping them.

http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/fs-congo-2850#post-976234

Sweet. Maybe buy that to flip locally out here.

Speaking of this thread, what's the latest on your game BowlingJim?

You'll get it going man. We've all been there.

Flip? Because I don't overpay? My selling history on Pinside is readily available. I think I'm really fair. It's been years since it's been easy to buy pinballs at a steal. So, if I can't really get them cheap, and I sell them reasonably, what exactly am I flipping?

I don't think the flipping comment was meant to be taking negatively. nothing wrong with flipping a pin at all. Buy it for that price and move it over here in the PNW for 3200~+. Nothing wrong with that!

Almost all of my WPC-95 reset issues have been related to the Z connector. Try resetting the Z connector several times.