So I'm just getting started on my first attempt at restoring a game. I have a fully working TAF that is cosmetically pretty bad. I'm swapping in a new cabinet, playfield (when the repros are ready), topper, translite, pretty much every topside part, etc.
I just finished taking all the parts out of the backbox to tumble the hardware and swap it all to the new cabinet backbox. Looks like pretty much every board has had some repair done to it. Some of them look pretty gnarly. What would you do? Replace them all with Rottendog boards? Try to find better originals? Would these boards have much resale value in the condition they are in considering they work fine?
I'm going for as high end of a restoration as I can get considering I have zero experience with this, but I know some people would prefer all original parts. The new cabinet and playfield already ruin that idea though.