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Price Check - 1957 Williams Kings

By PinFixin

8 years ago



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#1 8 years ago

I've only seen this title at a friend's collection and never asked how much he paid.

The backglass is about an 8/10, the playfield about an 8/10, I didn't get a chance to see the cabinet, and the legs are painted red (not sure if this is correct or not. In the press photo and the flyer, they are a dark color, but both are black and white). Cosmetically it looks decent. There is a glaring problem though.

A buddy has it in his shop and a customer gave it to him to work on over a year ago. It sounds like the customer is just done with it, and he wants to get rid of it. The shop owner is not an EM guy, and this one has the nightmare issue. Someone has cut/replace/rewired a lot of the game. He "thinks" he has it mostly working, but he was saying there is a stepper unit in the head that when the "fingers" touch the "rivets" in one particular section, it arcs/smokes until it's moved off of it. Like it's a dead short. So I'm anticipating a rewiring nightmare, and I'm not even sure if I will ever be able to get it working properly. I have access to a schematic, and if it's doable, I'd be interested but if I have to rewire a majority of the game, I may just get it to store it. It's somewhat buried in his shop and I haven't opened it up to see what I have in store for me.

So, long story short, what would be a fair price for this? (I guess a price check on the condition above with a somewhat easy fix, and a price check on the game with a nightmare rewiring job ahead).

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