My Scared Stiff was in great condition when I bought it, except for the Translites lamp backbox board artwork (part number is 31-2587.2). It looked like someone had left the key in one time and then tried to open the board to get to the electronics behind. Result - smashed at the top (see photo). I've tied for over a year to get one, and it's been next to impossible. The only one I saw went for £300.00 on E-Bay, and I was too late for it anyway. I wish I'd have seen it beforehand, as quite frankly, to put the game back to perfect I would have bid.

However, you can't go on about things you could have had. So, it's got to the stage when to get my pin back to how it should be, I've had to bite the bullet.

This has involved about two months of work and a whole heap of cash, but eventually a new one has been made. In fact not a new one, but a new ten, because this was the minimum run they would do for me because of the setup costs of the machine.

I've included here a photo of the prototype they did. This one has a glossy front, which I didn't want, so they are going to make the next ones matt like the original. However, it still look damn good, and a whole heap better than what I had.

Now, these are not original, so please don't say that you'd only want NOS. Because as far as I know, there just are not any left, but these are pretty close, and given the option of looking at a genuine busted version, and a non genuine perfect version, I know which way I'm going.

In order to get some of the large sum I've shelled out back, I'm going to sell the other eight (I'm keeping the glossy one as a poster, plus one to repair mine and another as a spare in case I'm an idiot at some point in the future and break one).

I'm waiting for the final price off of the people who have done it for me, and once I've had it, I'll have an idea how much they should be.

But anyone who is interested, then by all means let me know. PM or just reply here, no problems with either.

Of course it may be that I'm the only one with a broken one, in which case I've just carried out the Worlds most expensive pinball repair!!

Cheers chaps.

Here's the photo's, old and new.

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I've tried to take a photo here of it with torches behind, just so you can see the figures lighting up, but because it's not mounted on the backboard, the lights washing through and making everything look washed out. I'll post one as soon as I have a finished one mounted.

Cheers

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Excellent note Rum-Z. I've just been a checked the layout, and I can see the transistor that gets hot. Although this would take a long time to effect the new board, I may look at including a small steel mod to help dissipate the heat away.

Much appreciated.

MM

Just to make everyone aware. This is the artwork, and not the whole board. So you will need to peel off your old one to apply the new one. This took me about ten minutes with a pallete knife.

The good news for this is if you live overseas, it shouldn't be a problem posting it, as it will roll up into a tube.

Thanks for the PM's guys.

Thanks for the note JW. I must admit I thought I might have been the only one, but by the PM's I've had, it would seem I'm not alone and as you say, they seem to break in other areas also.

Ta

It looks to me as if a simple bit of heat resistant tape should work fine in front of that transistor. I'll make sure to use some on the back in the relevant position.

Message got thanks ABT12

Just so you guys know, I got the obligatory "Your infringing copyright" e-mail.

They of course have every right to send this, and it was a polite enough mail and of course I wouldn't want to upset anyone. So no harm done, and I pointed out eight items sold for no profit is hardly going to effect them.

I've offered them my artwork and stuff if they want it, so hopefully the World of Pinball will continue to move (drag kicking and screaming) on so we all get the bits we want to keep our pins in good nick.

If producing something yourself leads to getting a factory original reproduced, that wouldn't be such a bad thing.

Now what do we need next......? Suggestions on a post card - as the saying used to go

Cheers chaps, I'm imagining that they would have access to all of the original artwork, so for them, it probably wouldn't be anywhere near the problem that I've had. I did ask them just out of interest, but didn't get a reply.

Onwards and upwards.