I recently bought a Royal Flush and Mustang. Shopped and cleaned the Mustang and sold it to Sarah at Pinball Wizard. It is now sitting right next to Bronco A great first pin for me that found a perfect home. RF is another story. Being new to pins I simply had no idea what to look for. The playfield is worn in some critical areas. The backglass is showing about ten blemishes from the adhesive pads, classic Now with a slightly better eye for all that is pin and speaking with some more knowledgeable people than myself, I am trying to determine if I should part out this machine. I understand that parting one out is a less than ideal solution. Like many classic things, there's only so many left... I'd prefer it's saved and sitting next to a Card Whiz or other classic EM's. But knowing what it will take to restore, coupled with what I paid for it, I know I'd only be about even with what it's worth possibly to the right person. It seems to be a fairly popular 4 player 70's EM.

So... I'm willing to lose money if needed to see it survive. I'm looking to be travelling from southern NH to North Carolina at Thanksgiving. I'd be willing to deliver it within a reasonable distance of I95.

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I guess I'll list it on Ebay and see what happens.

I'm going to list it very cheap.

It does play and I can post a few pics of the inside. There are some issues with scoring and what not but I think it's just a matter of giving the contacts a good cleaning and playing it.

Well so far I have a few interested. So there's hope it will live to see another day

From what I understand it spent a few years in a bar that was owned by a friend. I would imagine that's were the post between the flippers came from. The owner of this pin was pretty straight forward about it and Mustangs history. I work with his daughter. My recent passion for pins comes from a rich 80's arcade experience and the fact I all of a sudden wanted one at 44 years old. I stood up one day at work and said I want a pinball machine. Heather said, that's interesting, I have two sitting in a barn. So I drove up to Maine and brought them home.

As mentioned not looking to make my money back. Just want it to live on. Let me list what I see as the known issues.

The bad
Adhesive pad damage to the BG
Playfield worn, Some of that in a moderately tough places, ie around the flippers
Only registers the 10's on the score reels
Rust on the legs
Rust on the apron

The good
Mechanicallly it's sound. Everythings there and is sound and clean
The cab is solid with minimal wear
Everything needed for a restore is easily available
The playfield around the cards under the drop targets is clean

So I took a little Novus to it. I'll clean up the main contacts tomorrow. Fired it up and hand ran it through a few cycles. It's begging to be brought back and played. I have a few more pics.

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That works.

Alight, after working on our truck for a few hours I decided to give Royal Flush a little love. I cleaned up all the main connections in the head. Then I hand played a few games while watching and adjusting the 10's 100's and 1000's relays. It now plays and scores as it should for all four players. I tried to take a video but for some reason the video was tilted no matter which orientation I used with my IPhone.

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Royal Flush found a new home. Thanks to you all for your interest, it's very much appreciated.

You're welcome! It was a pleasure to meet you and know that someone will get a chance to play the pin. The pin is definitely in the right hands