Hard to say - there's a really thick layer of dust, and there wasn't enough room to slide back the glass before carrying out of the shed.
Funny story about this table:
3 years ago, during a family Christmas celebration, I was talking about the recently acquired Firepower pinball I'd just gotten, and how much I loved messing around with pins and vids. My cousin Jennifer overheard me and said, "hey, you should fix up that old pinball machine my grandpa gave me."
Turns out this KISS pin was the one she was talking about. Apparently her Grandpa purchased it from a local bar owner many years ago. My Dad tells me that my cousin and I played with the machine quite a bit after he bought it, but I was pretty young at the time and don't really remember it. Who knows, those days could have been what sparked my interest in the hobby, and the interest laid dormant until 2007, when I REALLY got going in the hobby.
Sometime a few months after bringing the machine home to my cousin's place, it malfunctioned. So, it was turned off, put in the shed, and stayed there for 10 years until my uncle moved to a new house. Then the machine was transported (with all of the rest of my uncle's junk/stuff) to a shed at his new home. There it has been sitting for 15 more years.
Two summers ago, I was finally able to get into the shed far enough to get a look at the machine. I had to perform death defying acts of circus stunt style balancing on boxes of stuff to be able to pop the back box lock open and gingerly ease the back glass off the machine. I brought the back glass home, put it in the corner of my bed room, and it's still there today.
A few months after that, I re-visited the shed again, and managed to move enough things out of the way to be able to get the back box open and retrieve the boards. I brought them home and my buddy spent the better part of a few weeks repairing them while working on a Flash Gordon pin he had. He'd just rebuilt a Flash Gordon himself, so he was able to use his working boards to rebuild my KISS boards. They were acid damaged, of course, and there was a bad ram chip on the MPU. After they were fixed, the boards went into a box that got placed in my bedroom next to the back glass.
Now that I knew the back glass and boards were safe and sound, I waited until the time was right to go rescue the table. That opportunity presented itself yesterday, on the 4th of July. My dad and I zipped over there and managed to extricate the machine from the depths of the shed. Let me tell you what, it WAS hotter than hell. One of those days where even the air conditioning in the car can't even cool you down. Like just standing there sweating hot.
I didn't have a ton of time to survey the damage, since everything was happening pretty fast, and we were headed back to a family picnic for the remainder of the day. But here's a few things I noticed about the table:
- Looks complete, no manuals though.
- Legs are pretty rusty, acorn bolts will need to be soaked in oil and I'll probably have to re-die the threads before screwing them into the mounting holes.
- Looks like a mouse nest up by the pop bumpers - hopefully it's not full of piss.
- I did manage to shine a flashlight into the coin door opening, and the table appears to be pretty clean on the inside, and no chewed wiring that I could see.
- Side art on the cabinet is in VERY good condition, the back box has some pretty nasty gashes in it, but all in all, it's in OK shape too.
- I have no idea on the condition of the playfield, but I'll know more when I remove the glass tonight.
I told my cousin that leaving a pin out in the elements like this was sacrilege, and that I would take it, repair it, and keep it in my climate controlled arcade until such time that she could demonstrate that she had the proper place to keep the pin. She was totally fine with that idea. So, for the forseeable future, I should have a pretty nice KISS in the lineup once I get this one back together.
I suspect I'll have some solenoid and switch adjustment work to do on the playfield, as well as some issues to resolve with the diplays. Hopefully there's no mylar to deal with the PF. Time will tell I guess.
I'm not really motivated to get any work done today while this thing sits on a trailer outside
