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Price Check - F-14 Tomcat

By dudel

10 years ago


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#11 10 years ago

The arrowhead inserts are horrible to level if any are lifted. Too many axises (axi?) to pivot on when simply warming to reset them unless you plan on cutting them all out, scraping glue out and resetting clean. Still, over time the heat from the lamps likely warped them and you won't get them level.

Unless fully mylar'ed, there will be lots of wear in an arc above the pop bumper and around the upper loop. Seen a lot down to the wood in these areas around the inserts.

Also known design problems lead to blown switch/solenoid drivers due to shorting. May have been fixed fully, or fixed and 2 flashers removed that you may want to add back.

Also, ensure all of the beacons are intact, and all the reflectors are there. Very hard to find replacement parts for those cheap.

#20 10 years ago

Looked at the pictures -- the two problematic flashers have been removed (under the reds by the upper T-O-M C-A-T targets), so you may want to add those back and undo the reversal on the bottom boards and/or fix any issues they caused on the MPU.

Also, I'd kill for the PF and cab in as good condition of that, but let me state mine is about a "D" quality and that one is a "C+" So I would expect a price closer to 850-900 EUR instead. 1000 EUR seems high but they've definitely sold for that much. Here's a list of recent actual sell prices: http://www.pinpedia.com/machine/F14-Tomcat/prices

Germany only: 657, 799, 1021, 1110, 855, 856, 1005, 1043, 890, 987, 405, 734, 606 (throwing out highest and lowest in the last 12 months). Average: 843 Euro

US only: 1730, 900, 900, 1945, 1450, 2121, 1136, 1100 (again throwing out highest/lowest over 12 months). Average: $1410 USD

Looks like it's more common in Germany and sells for less too. I'd hold out to get it for 850 EUR. Also if you buy it outside of ebay (don't bid) the seller will save about 20% in selling fees IIRC so that might mean you could offer 800 EUR cash and take it and the seller gets just as much as they would selling at 1000 on ebay.

As far as the display. A $60 replacement glass and some soldering will fix that if you don't want to spend $180+ on the LED. But if you do spend $180+ then you can probably sell the existing panel with 3 working for ~$100 to someone that will want it, making up most of the difference and never having to replace another plasma again.

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