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1 year later
Quoted from CaptainNeo:usually if you make 1 fantastic one out of 2, you sell the other to someone else that needs different parts and it goes down the line. Until it gets to the guy with a very limited budget that it stops at, and he spends a year or more restoring it to a beautiful showpiece with time and love.
That's me then. I'm at the absolute limit of low-end budget so I bought a total junk project Paragon sold-as-seen with no chance to test it when I collected. Basically, I turned up, confirmed that what I was looking at was a pinball machine standing on its end, spent 10-minutes hunting for the backglass and legs, parted with my cash and left!
It was dead when when I got it home. It was my first pin too. But I was just so thrilled to have picked up a thing of such beauty. And after a lot of tinkering I rebuilt the power supply and repaired the battery acid damaged MPU. Side-stepped a few hacks and Voilá! A working Paragon. Sure she's a hunk of junk just like the Millenium Falcon.
"She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts."
I've got a shop log on here. Search for "Paragon Adventures In Budget Restoration".
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