I was very very sad when my TSPP was delivered with this!

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So I get a call. Guy has a WWF Royal rumble that was abandoned in an apartment... he scraps stuff for a living so he hauled it away. He has had it for years in a shed. When I get there I can tell he is indeed a scraper. Lives in a rural area of KY. He has a plies of aluminum cans here... copper pipe there, piles of various wire, circuit boards, etc.

I dolly out the machine to find out and the glass is busted. At first glance, still a recoverable machine, bad playfield but still could be fixed to be a player condition pin. "Somebody took some of the wire" he says. I lift the playfield to find that old Zek has cut ever bit of the wire harness from the bottom of the PF then use a small crowbar to pry off coils. Everything scrap-able has been destructively removed.

What is pissing me off is that guy is pretending that he was not the dumbass that destroyed this machine for $3 worth of scrap copper wire.

He says he wants $100. I actually have a bit of satisfaction when I open the back box and Zek's eye's bug out when he sees that he left the high grade circuit boards there (he did not know they were there) I can practically hear his thoughts: "Damnit there is $10 in scrap down the drain". Board set is all there and looks good. I give him his $100 load it up and tell him I would have paid $500 if it was not partially gutted. He looked like I kick him in the sack when I told him this. So his $3 in copper wire cost him $400.

I eventually sold the PF for over $100 and cabinet for about the same to someone building a virtual pin. And kept the board set and a perfectly good DMD as extra parts.

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Yikes, any pictures of the bottom of the playfield?

Thank goodness the scrapper I got Space Shuttle from was smart enough to know not to cut away the wire for scrap.... although he had mentioned that he considered it but decided there wasn't enough there to be worth the effort.

Yes, that would have been the true horror pic.

By the way, if anybody needs wire, I have extra.

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Service loop?

Don't cut the red one

What a sad and irritating story...glad that you mentioned the price he could have gotten if he just left it alone, and the proverbial kick in the sack that must have given him. At least you got some good parts out of it. If you did shoot a pic of the bottom of the PF, please post it. It will make me feel better about even the worst of projects I have sitting around.

Picked up this gem yesterday. Some may ask why bother. It turned on! All i need. Hoping to salvage solinoid driver board and spinning wheel for my cocktail.
Any gueses what game it is? I had to look under playfield to find out.
Asked the lady, who painted it?
I did she said....why i ask....i was drunk and high. Oh ok....at least she was honest.

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Real, maybe. Or Black velvet by the spinners.

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It is Game plan's Black Velvet.

THANKS
The eproms have no labels on them.
Acid damage on cpu is unfixable, the board is trashed.
Looks like game plan rebranded this table a few times. Im at 4
Black velvet
Real and Camel cigarette
Foxy Lady

Whatever it is...it's a damn shame what they did to it. At least the rubbers look like they're still good

It is a......drum roll.....
FOXY LADY!
BUT, this one isnt anymore.
Playfield up, finally found a name stamped under playfield.
This is good news. Its the same i am fixin.

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Probably repairable, but yeuch!

Wow never saw that before... I'm not sure which one's uglier, this or the repaint.
Gotta remember that one for the next "worst theme ever" thread.

Pretty typical

This is an extreme case. As many of these as I have fought with. I would just replace with a Rotten Dog board.
This pic is a nice addition to the Horror pics thread though

is this from your space shuttle?

If so, you've got bigger problems than battery corrosion

Bally/Stern from the looks of it , battery date code 7836. 36th week of 1978.
id be changing it, as it expired about 39 years ago!

LOL... dang just missed the cut off.

No, not from Space Shuttle... that would be a big problem LOL, this is from an Eight Ball I picked up from an awesome collector, he actually used to deliver mail to our house... small world.

A future project, but first need to stop the decay. Also hoping I can find a good playfield as this one has planking, some fading and wear... might end up as parts for the next school project... but I find it nearly impossible to let a machine go to parts.... and worst case there are overlays available.

I also got a Bally Monte Carlo EM from him which has similar playfield issues, but also is missing the credit unit (has a donor one which appears to be from another game in the cabinet), and had some stuff cut off the coin door... I suspect someone had at some point and time attempted to rig it for free play but as it stands now it's completely dead.

Clive mentioned on his Ninja sight that those orange sockets ae worst.

Definitely repairable. With some vinegar, a wire brush drill bit, some soldering, and a little elbow grease that board can clean up. Save yourself $200

This cabinet .... the horror, the horror...

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They at least could have made the design symmetrical...

I gotta say, as bad as that is, at least they had the decency or courtesy to remove or cover the metal parts before they defiled the game (well, for the most part now that I saw the bottom of the coin door). I had a D&D before that had some spray paint on it, and they sprayed right over the coin door and legs with the "re-design".

Custom mod for under 10 bucks!

Nah, that's more than $10: two cans of yellow, one red, one green, roll of masking tape (which they get bonus points for using).....

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Well slap my momma that thing is a mess!

Wax and play...

Any pictures of it after removing the shattered glass and cleaning some of the filth off?

Yikes! That thing MUST have a bad fuse....

Home use only..

What pin is that?

Big House

What shattered glass? The guy said that was a mod

yeah, it cleaned up nicely I think it looked worse than it was. Still a lot of cleaning up.
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I bought a 3 of these machines in this condition and an indiana jones without pcbs for 1100 euro. One was to far gone to save, indy sold as is (regret). Cleaned up the big house, but I didn't really like the game play, though the theme integration was really nice. And a incomplete jungle lord I "restored". Really miss the JL, a great game.
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Wow!
How many hours did it take to clean up that Big House pin?

The ad said "Just needs a new sheet of glass to cover game board."

Normal stripping the playfield and cleaning plus a few hours of vacuuming. How long does it take to strip and clean a playfield? That all depends on what music you listen to while working and how many beers you drink

But however long you work on cleaning out the glass, you will always find more later

Man....there is ALWAYS more glass :/

Got this Charlie's Angels along with a Hulk, shufflebowler, and a cigarette machine. Bulk buy, all or none. The Charlie's was the worst case, sitting in the corner of a leaky shed for decades. When delivered to me, C.A. was missing two legs and strapped to the sideboards of a box van, being held up by a rusty Ford tailgate. The shufflebowler was the heaviest pile of parts ever. But the pingods were just, and for all that work scrapping the Hulk is in really good shape.

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Alaska has to be a tough place to find project pins.

It's not too bad, really. Definitely fewer games than the lower 48, but we have less competition among collectors. And in most cases I know the person who ends up buying any game that comes up for sale.

That said, I still dream of loading up a trailer and hauling it back filled with projects.

Somebody thought it would be a good idea to install a credit button in the front of the cabinet, by gouging a monstrous hole in it.

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Is that Trident a recent pick up, The Australian release actually has the start button there, and a different front door, its a fun challenging game, especially with the right hand out lane.

This is the front of the Australian release which Leisure and Allied Industries produced the cabinet, why the door was changed I do not know, but it all looks to be all original. you can see the cut out for the door is different.

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