Quest for Grail ends in sadness. Xenon

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The CL ad read something like this...

Xennon and Asteroids games both for $100.

Xenon being my holiest of pinball grails, I had to go. It was a 6 hour drive round trip, and I bought both of them for $70. Neither game is restorable, but I will salvage as many usable parts off of both of them as I can. They will be good organ donors for several other games to be able to live on.

The carnage that you are about to see, should be criminal IMO. Those with weak hearts or small children should not view these pics.

Asteroids first

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Xenon, more pics in next post

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Good Lord, Dave. That's horrid. You're a trooper going out all that way for parts. I wish you the best at finding your grail/putting it together.
 
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Jesus Dave. You drive 6 hours to take away some guys trash and you even paid him for the pleasure.
 
Yeah, no kidding. He only paid you $70???
 
Wow, what a shame. I can't believe the guy was asking $100 for them in that condition. Must have brass balls.
 
Jesus Dave. You drive 6 hours to take away some guys trash and you even paid him for the pleasure.

I hate to tell you Dave but I think you may have payed too much!

Yeah, no kidding. He only paid you $70???

I am in for $150 total with gas and trailer and all.

All of the circuit boards are present in both games. The monitor in the Asteroids, may actually be working. The bezel and marquee on the Asteroids are both very nice. The Control Panel and Owl Coin Door are both restorable.

Xenon, it is hard to tell right now. I will now more when I get the head separated. The boards don't look too bad from what I have seen of them. The playfield has a lot of usable parts that are not all crustified to shit.

It should prove to be interesting.
 
Sad to see a wanted grail absolutely destroyed, I always wonder how the eff someone lets that happen... I think $70 is fair, the drive sucks but not the end of the world. There's some good parts there, an owl eye door on the Asteroids for one, straight control panel, maybe some monitor parts and a parts pcb, lots of misc. Atari crap. The pin surely has solenoids, brackets, linkage, score displays, plastics, parts boards, etc...
 
I am in for $150 total with gas and trailer and all.

All of the circuit boards are present in both games. The monitor in the Asteroids, may actually be working. The bezel and marquee on the Asteroids are both very nice. The Control Panel and Owl Coin Door are both restorable.

Xenon, it is hard to tell right now. I will now more when I get the head separated. The boards don't look too bad from what I have seen of them. The playfield has a lot of usable parts that are not all crustified to shit.

It should prove to be interesting.

Did you not get pictures before you went?

Yeah not a total loss but dang those machines are toast. What kind of a douche would leave those outside....? I always wonder this when I find junkers in similar despair.
 
You said it all while I was typin'!!
Most of the time when people say something is crap, $50 was too much, and should be free, laughing while I'm picking it, etc...

I end up with some parts I can use on other machines I have or will have or a few hundred dollars off the parts and help save the remaining ones which just slightly increased in value since another one has bit the dust.

Laugh it up guys until that monitor works and he has $150 into a working B&W vector and loads of parts to farm off... :)

LOL, someone has to stand up for us scavengers! I think its funny Chris258-whatever the hell gets constant crap for parting out cabinets, yet he's doing us all a good service that he gets ridiculed for!

In other words, someone has to scavenge parts or else they get thrown away as whole at the dump and nobody ever finds that elusive part they need to get theirs working. $70 is fair, I bet you could make over $300 patiently farming the parts out.
 
Did you not get pictures before you went?

Yeah not a total loss but dang those machines are toast. What kind of a douche would leave those outside....? I always wonder this when I find junkers in similar despair.

No pics were available, but the first guy to look at them told me they were severely water damaged.

It will be a truely sad day when I take the chainsaw to the Xenon cab.

I know that with the parts out of these 2 games, I can help other games live a long and happy life.
 
In other words, someone has to scavenge parts or else they get thrown away as whole at the dump and nobody ever finds that elusive part they need to get theirs working. $70 is fair, I bet you could make over $300 patiently farming the parts out.

These both were headed for the guy's burn pit, if they were not sold by the weekend.
 
why is everybody hatin??

the frickin monitors is worth $100 nowadays, imho..

somebody wiht a dead xenon will be very happy to find parts!
 
These both were headed for the guy's burn pit, if they were not sold by the weekend.

My point exactly. Be a klov cheapass and let the stuff get destroyed or spend a little pocket change on some good parts. I've done it myself when nobody would come for a cheap cabinet, I do strip it / harvest parts, but 99% of the general population wouldn't bother and stick the hatchet in it off to the dump. When you need the shit outta the way you need it gone. As people call you and chisel you on it the urge to see it meet fate is sped up...
 
Sucks that those games are trashed :(
I would have bought those for parts If It were local..
I want to make a monitor test rig that would have worked perfect....

You will find your Xenon Dokert keep looking :)
 
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