kevg
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Picked up a Secret Service today. Now the fun begins!
Picked up a DE secret service today. A friend of mine got it as payment for a side job, so I bought it off him for $200. I paid too much, but I felt bad for him, as the job he did was worth way more than that. It was on location in a family eatery gameroom before spending the last 10 years in the basement of the restaurant getting covered in a nice coat of grease and kitchen smell. It powered up and played (sort of) for about 10 minutes before dying completely. In that short time we figured out the bottom 2 displays are dead, all 3 pop bumpers are locked up solid, both slingshots are stuck and about 20 other things that need fixing at first glance. The only thing that seemed to work with no problems was the ball eater! The playfield is REALLY dirty, but should clean up nice, there are no spots worn through the paint so that's a good thing and I was able to run the test mode before it died and found all the lights on the topper worked. This is going to be my first attempt at shopping out a pin myself so it should be an interesting time! I already picked up a complete NOS set of plastics off ebay, but that's the easy part!
And one really bent leg!
Picked up a DE secret service today. A friend of mine got it as payment for a side job, so I bought it off him for $200. I paid too much, but I felt bad for him, as the job he did was worth way more than that. It was on location in a family eatery gameroom before spending the last 10 years in the basement of the restaurant getting covered in a nice coat of grease and kitchen smell. It powered up and played (sort of) for about 10 minutes before dying completely. In that short time we figured out the bottom 2 displays are dead, all 3 pop bumpers are locked up solid, both slingshots are stuck and about 20 other things that need fixing at first glance. The only thing that seemed to work with no problems was the ball eater! The playfield is REALLY dirty, but should clean up nice, there are no spots worn through the paint so that's a good thing and I was able to run the test mode before it died and found all the lights on the topper worked. This is going to be my first attempt at shopping out a pin myself so it should be an interesting time! I already picked up a complete NOS set of plastics off ebay, but that's the easy part!
And one really bent leg!

