I bought the EK off the Freeplay floor Friday.... So all the people in the tournament who were supposed to play it after I bought it, can thank me for screwing them up LOL. Paid little more than I wanted, but the PF was extremely nice..... once I got into it tonight I found out why... has an NOS replacement PF in it. Probably put in within last 10 years I'd say judging from the condition. I've wanted an EK for quite some time, & they have been going up & up in price, at least around here.....Really nice BG, Displays good, Weebly MPU, plays fast.... the PF condition put it over top for me. I know Hardtops are out for this, but there is nothing quite like the real deal.
Spent a few hours on it tonight.... Put 2SMD warm frosted Comets in the backbox, Comet retro LEDs in GI..... Needed a new 15 pin connector on the SD board, Lamp driver board was bad, found couple bad solder joints on couple Playfields GI bulbs that were not working, 1 bad Feature lamp socket... new PF glass, replaced the 30" incorrect legs with a correct set of 28.5" Ballys, & about 2 hours worth of messing around with minor stuff & man what a difference....
Now just need some new targets, bumper caps, little rubber color change & a Cab Paint job/new rails, little coin door work & will be pretty nice. Eventually I will clear the PF, probably next winter when I have more time, too many others ahead of it in line.
If I didn't buy EK, I was going to pull Trigger on Skip's Dracula along wall in the vendor room. I stopped & played that 15 times over 2 days... & it was #2 on the to buy list... But I picked up 4 more games that were pre-bought, so just couldn't do them both, but Dracula was well worth the asking $ IMO
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