Its worth all of the work when its done and looks like that! Looks fantastic, I bet it plays great. Looks better than new!!

If you have a nice house and you want to have a pin, you cant have something that has been in a bar for 40 years. Even in its in relatively amazing shape, It can either look out of place, or it can be a center piece.

If it is going in an unfinished basement, whats the use making it look awesome.
Thats how I look at it.

Super nice .Very good restoration candidate.
I want to restore a nice eldorado like this, but I have not found a yellow that covers well enough, in a big area like that title has. Very frustrating.

Right now I have an eldorado city of gold. It took about 10 years to find it. I had an eldorado and sold it for either the main house roof or the barn roof (twice I have had to sell most of my collection for roofs) but I want to get another. I want to restore it to be on par with the super nice city of gold, to show the difference between the 2.

At one time I had a 1957 royal flush, and the royal flush delux sys 80 version made in 83. Neither of them were restored. I have so many opportunities to introduce people to pinball, plus many of my customers have never played a wood rail before.

I also use a lot of zip locs. I will put the left slingshot assembly in one zip, and if you want to do smaller (sub bags) in the zip loc to separate things that are not obvious. I am not wasteful, and not eager to fill the land fill so I reuse the zip locs until they are trash.

Its a little more work, but putting a plug on all of the coil assemblies makes life so much better in your coming years when you are working on the game, upside down. You can just unplug it and unscrew a couple screws, and now you are working on your bench rather than twisting your back. (I have lumbar 3-5 all fused together). Its a good investment.

Where ever you buy your electronics parts. like mouser. You can get in line plugs for how ever many wires you need, or you can put a male female splice in each wire. I like the plugs. I got the idea from ramps. its so nice to be able to unplug them and pull them off, rather than cut wires and re solider. If I have time to look some up I will post where they are available. search in line plug.

I hate working on games upside down or twisting my back. I take the assembly off, and it makes you feel good.

Everyone has an opinion, but I feel very strongly about pre drilling every single thing. Dave macy does swaps every 2 weeks, I would be interested if he predrills everything.