Fairview Park, OH
Quoted from PantherCityPins:Yeah I was thinking of ordering the flipper rebuild kit. I'll check the voltage at the coil this weekend.
Overall I'm still very happy with the progress, I was surprised that there were so many components on the board that were bad. The PO told me the game was booting when he got it and it stopped booting after he "cleaned" it. I don't know what you do to a machine while cleaning it that causes 3 separate components to go bad on a board... Unless he saw some magic smoke and didn't tell me, maybe that's why it was so cheap lol.
At any rate, as you said I have plenty of room in the budget here, even with the current parts and paying Evan I'm still < $1500 in the machine.
Great progress so far. My guess is that a flipper rebuild would solve that issue but you can check for any slop in the linkage and the EOS switch contacts/gap in the mean time.
For the sound, did you try reseating the sound ROMs and/or looking at the connector out to the speaker and play around with the volume pot in the cabinet? Maybe it's been my bad (then good) luck but I've had a few system 11 sound issues, but they were all related to either a bad connector at the sound board or ROMs that needed to be reseated. The volume pots can get flaky if the game has been sitting a while too or maybe a broken wire. Hopefully whoever looked at the game ruled that out though.
Since you are new to the hobby it seems like you are learning rule #1 about buying games - "untested/was working when I put it in storage/probably an easy fix/just needs a fuse" means the game is broken and will need a bunch of work 99.9% of the time, with a .1% margin of error 
. Not necessarily a bad thing if you like a project like I do, but is unfortunately the marketing a lot of people use especially on FB and CL.
