I have serious doubts about that... the difference between the playfield and the plastics is that you can see the artwork under the dirt on the plastics... but on the playfield there is nothing except where remnants of the paint remain...

Here's another shot he sent that demonstrates this better:

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I'm absolutely disgusted with myself that I still want that left sling plastic.

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trust me I think yours is in better shape

I guess whats actually worse is that I actually own the same machine and did not recoginize it. Even worse I only paid a bit more then he is asking for a fully functional machine from a great pinsider ......great machine lots of fun ...total disaster that someone let it get that bad

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What on earth game is this?!

Looks like the glass was off it and it had a severe rat infestation. In the very first picture inside the game, you can see a massive rat nest. 306B3D4A-5D50-4376-AD19-C003A1833111.jpeg
Game is probably rotten. Rat piss destroyed the playfield.
At that stage, parts.
Only if you’re brave!

NOPE!!! Beware of hantavirus when dealing with any nesting from a mouse or rat.

Send me a 300 DPI scan with some type of ruler scanned with it and I can remake that for you.

I didn't notice that! So that dark red mound inside the cab, that's a rat's nest? Scary!

The guy still hasn't replied to my request for him to wipe the dirt off... I think I'll push him again, saying if the guy bought it for $500 then I understand... I'm gonna guess he'll say it's sold so I stop asking him to remove the dirt seeing as he knows he's lying... that's my prediction... at which point it would be cool if someone else from here can ask him if it's still for sale

The pink, fluffy mound is fiberglass insulation which mice/rats LOVE to make nests from. It’s extremely common in North America, because buildings are made from wood. Probably not so much in Europe due to their concrete and solid construction methods, so not as much need for the fiberglass insulation when the building is rock solid concrete!

My house is brick built (40cm thick solid walls), but it's still insulated on the outside to help stop heat loss... they typically use polystyrene insulation though that's literally glued to the house and then painted with a very thick paint... I hated this idea at first because it means the outside of the house is fragile, you can literally push your fist through it if you don't mind a few cuts from the set paint... in the UK, where I used to live, it's common to have a cavity brick wall where the cavity is filled with insulation... sometimes a Rockwool type stuff if put in during the build, or an expanding foam if done afterwards.

As an update on communication from the seller of the Home Run, instead of backing out and saying the game has gone, he's actually agreed to clean the playfield!! Really very curious what follows!!!

Hope someone gives him the hint to use naphtha or rubbing alcohol to wipe it down, not soap and water.

I told him to not use water, and recommended furniture polish... no idea if that's really a good or bad idea, but I tend to use furniture polish on playfields that I'm preparing for a ceiling project and it seems to work well...

Edit, I mailed him again advising him to use naphtha or rubbing alcohol to wipe it down...

How about this one? Sorry for the poor quality, but yes this is technically a pinball horror pic, can anyone spot it?

Wow, what a simple little motor board.

For some reason I thought 'Spin Wheel' instead of Pin Wheel... much more beautiful and interesting game! I'm missing a game with captive holes in my lineup!!

Blasphemy...Baby Pac Man

lol yep. Somebody went through A LOT of trouble to make a junk American Speedway

I love Baby Pac, but more confusing is all that effort into the conversion lol. It’s so cramped, doesn’t make any sense!!!

Got the lower cabinet dried out well enough, found a suitable donor backbox thanks to a generous fellow collector in the region, and moved all of the electronics over tonight. Really looking like the only thing wrong with this machine was a broken backglass and maybe some of the displays being out. I was able to boot it, coin up, start and 'play' a game, no problem. Huge shame it was put outside for years like that.

Here's a video of what I found after getting it all hooked back up:

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I'd given up hope on hearing back from the Home Run owner after I asked him to clean the supposed dirt from the playfield, but during that time gap it appears he's been very busy!! Yesterday he sent me a video of the game turned on, motor running... Here's a screen shot part way through the video... not sure how to share the whole video here... now I'm in a bit of a spot because the only reason I showed an interest in the game was to wangle pics of the playfield out of him in the belief it would be total trash!
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As a reminder, here's the 'before' picture:
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At first I thought it was a different game, but looking at the screen shot I see that it has the same damaged rubber on the right sling shot!

That playfield looks good, but how could it have gotten that dirty? Is it smoke damage, flood, or rodent? Never seen that much build up on a playfield.

Chocolate pinballs.

Just tell him "Looks way better - now take some new pics and re-run your ad." You provided them a service, really.

This is a famous old photo, like the Popeye being played underwater. Can’t remember where the original thread is. It’s gotta be over 10 years old

Possibly left in storage with the glass left off.

Something got a little toasty...

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Day 3 of cleaning up glass. And I still haven’t started the playfield or inside the cabinet yet

This thing literally exploded all over the room

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One of our favorite EMs!

That is amazing. I’m glad he was able to do this to help garner enough interest to hopefully keep it from going to the dump

How did that happen?

Shit happens. I had a car window shatter on me as I was driving down the street.

Fuzzy!

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You need a hazmat suit to remove the glass!

I bet you that still cleans up well like that home run. Maybe not the plastics, but the playfield. I wonder if there was anything in the old wax or finish that they got moldy and grimey like that?

Or a sledgehammer

Give it to the Home Run owner, he'll get it looking like new

I've never seen a moldy playfield before!

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"I'll match your pinball coffee table and raise you this... collection of abominations!"

SMDH. Who signed them???

Shawn

Who signed them? The "artist", clearly! Didn't you read the description.. they're ART

Richard

I don't get too bent out of shape about old playfields as wall art, since a lot of them are left over from swaps. I've done it myself. Practiced doing touch ups and clear coat on old ones that won't ever get used again. I made this one:

Those playfields were in pretty awesome shape for EMs, I dont think they were leftover from swaps.

Gotten through a few pages! Crazy!

“Created by RJM ARTS”
Are we supposed to care?

I've got a load of very nice condition playfields from all eras, and very few are leftovers from swaps... most of them were from operators who I bought games off who kept them as a supply of parts, and when they ran dry, or time had moved on and the era that the playfields were from was no longer being operated, I got them thrown in with the deal. Other times I picked up a body with no head and parted it out... I'm planning to use them on the ceiling of the eventual pinball room which will be back-lit... I feel no shame

Wow!! That's some pretty impressive lighting effects you've got going on there!! Your cat seems impressed too, but probably not as much as I was! How have you done that?? If even just some of the playfields I'm planning to put on my ceiling were doing this kind of stuff it would be awesome!

I see the 'artist' appears to have screwed several posts with pulleys on then to attach a belt to which drags a toy tow truck around the playfield on the Night Rider!! Errrr, not sure that actually improves the look!! And what the heck is that bent metal rod also attached to the front if the playfield for?? $500 for that!!

bigguybbr lighting effects are 100× more attractive!

I have a Last Action Hero playfield that came with a pin I purchased from a swap, its repairable so I didn't do anything to damage it when I made it a wall hanger. It uses a set of LED Christmas lamps from Amazon for lighting.

The crane, apron and several plastics were made from scratch.

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That's dedication!! I normally leave whatever looks nice on the front of the playfield so it looks as complete as possible... to minimise the weight, for drop targets, I've taken to removing the targets from the mechs and fixing them to the back of the playfield onto a piece of wood so it looks complete on the front.