What to do with this?

Sweet score.

Get started posting WTB's for what's missing. :) You never know what might turn up if you put the word out.

For stuff like the missing harpoon, I'm sure something could be improvised until the real thing could be found. (If it just uses two pots, an analog joystick could potentially be used.)

Either that, or put it up for sale to someone who has a termite-ridden or flood-damaged cab. That wood looks to be in pretty good shape.

The game is fun as hell. Definitely worth trying to restore it.
 
You guys know that BGresto is just translights glued to the back of glass right?

my DE Phantom of the Opera had some scratches around the display window like a lot of them do, my friend who owned it at the time sent it to BGresto to fix it.

He scanned the front of the glass, front mask art included, and scraped off the ENTRIE back of the backglass. Loosing the rotten face of the fantom. He then printed out the art on a translight that glued and taped to the back of the glass.
The translight is yellowed and dark that I have super bright blue white LEDS behind it and it barely looks lit up. And when the mask flashers go off the face reveal through the mask is completely ruined because the art is lost.

So no, I would not send shit bgresto.
 
Man, what's up with the monitor being screen down in the cabinet like that?

It seems to be ok, it looks like it might have fallen. It was sitting on the transformer when I picked it up, I took it out to transport. Pretty good screen burn. I need to put my CRT tester on it and see if its ok.
 
It seems to be ok, it looks like it might have fallen. It was sitting on the transformer when I picked it up, I took it out to transport. Pretty good screen burn. I need to put my CRT tester on it and see if its ok.
Good plan. Although, that looked concerning.
 
You guys know that BGresto is just translights glued to the back of glass right?

my DE Phantom of the Opera had some scratches around the display window like a lot of them do, my friend who owned it at the time sent it to BGresto to fix it.

He scanned the front of the glass, front mask art included, and scraped off the ENTRIE back of the backglass. Loosing the rotten face of the fantom. He then printed out the art on a translight that glued and taped to the back of the glass.
The translight is yellowed and dark that I have super bright blue white LEDS behind it and it barely looks lit up. And when the mask flashers go off the face reveal through the mask is completely ruined because the art is lost.

So no, I would not send shit bgresto.
Yea I know what his product looks like. If you read his website it says right on the front page that he doesn't silk screen. Looks better than a completely trashed or missing glass. Sorry you didn't do any research first and then got mad at the guy.
 
Yea I know what his product looks like. If you read his website it says right on the front page that he doesn't silk screen. Looks better than a completely trashed or missing glass. Sorry you didn't do any research first and then got mad at the guy.
Dude you're a jackass.


I knew he was a hack. Re read my post. My buddy is the one who used him. I wouldn't let him touch anything of mine, and I would give him a cent.

Once I can find a replacement backglass the one he ruined is going in the trash.
 
Dude you're a jackass.


I knew he was a hack. Re read my post. My buddy is the one who used him. I wouldn't let him touch anything of mine, and I would give him a cent.

Once I can find a replacement backglass the one he ruined is going in the trash.

These are the types of reviews we need to hear. His "process" makes it sound like you're getting NOS or better:

How is the Glass Repaired?
The process for repairing/restoring a glass is multiple steps. After the artwork is scanned and clean up on the computer (both the front color layer and the back mask layer), the color layer is printed on a special paper. Then the back lit mask layer is printed on a clear mylar. The area of the glass to be restored is scrapped clean (or if the glass is a total loss, a new tempered sheet of glass of the proper thickness and size is used), and the two prints laid on the glass. Last the glass is put into a vacuum oven. The vacuum sucks out the air bubbles, forcing the new artwork onto the glass. Then the heat is applied melting the color layers to the glass, bonding it permanently to the glass. This gives an excellent repair that is extremely durable (though the glass should still not be subjected to extreme cold temperatures.) Note we do NOT print a translite film and sandwich it between glass – our process is much more sophisticated, and generates a top notch commercial product.
 
If you need: I have a mostly-complete CP (I got the restored one from cnlmoore a few months ago but the original one is fine with some slight rust), a game board and probably a PS board if you want to stay original with that. Finding the backdrop is gonna be the tough part.

And, agreed. BGresto effectively sucks. It's good that he exists since you take what you can get if it's all you can get, and he can do one-offs, but I haven't yet seen one that I wouldn't readily describe as "crap" upon a 5-second examination. Many pin collectors just want new-looking games that they don't play so they don't seem to mind the poor quality, but it mostly seems to come down to the fact that these guys might not know why they're crap? I had a Star Gazer with one for a short time and it's just nothing even close to original-looking. Contrast/gamma way off (TOG has this issue with lots of stuff too), everything blurry because of some combination of poor scan or print quality.

The dude that "restored" this looks-great-from-8-feet-away game and had it for a couple years must have never even played it since it had 2 inop spinners (note for those that don't know: the main thing you care about on Star Gazer is the spinners), several standup targets and lamps wired incorrectly (swapped positions!), no tilt, coin door not wired up, credit/match display wired wrong. Naturally, it was described as "100% working". I'm just pointing this out since it probably helps emphasize the sort of dudes that are seemingly happy with a bgresto glass, hah. It's just the state of newer pin guys with more money than sense or skill, but it was pretty hilarious that the "beautiful game" was completely unplayable.

I'd still buy one if I "needed" to, but I'd also accurately describe it.
 
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