Frax
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Where do you draw the line on a resto project on a keeper pin?
I'm sure my wife thinks I'm nuts...just curious were other people fall on things like this..
I knew Shuttle was a keeper before I went and bought it. Pinbot was a pin that I'd actually never played *in person* until I bought it, but fell in love with the game via the NES. After I played it, and especially now that I have it mostly tuned up, it's a definite keeper. I've decided to go ahead with getting the parts to do the resto on Pinbot as well.
The repro playfield, plastics, and mini playfield will be 862$ shipped. I paid 200$ for the actual game. At that point, we're pretty much talking about buying a nice one, and that's not even including other stuff I will end up replacing like sockets, wires, etc. I'm falling more on the side of that these are keepers for me, so I feel the price is justified to effectively have new playfields and plastics for these machines that will last a very long time, and I don't see leaving my collection for a very long time, if ever.
Question is, where's the line between trying to build a beautiful machine that will hopefully function for a very long time, and just buying one that's already been taken care of, but perhaps has a mylared playfield, or other cosmetic issues that will never be correctable?
I'm sure my wife thinks I'm nuts...just curious were other people fall on things like this..
I knew Shuttle was a keeper before I went and bought it. Pinbot was a pin that I'd actually never played *in person* until I bought it, but fell in love with the game via the NES. After I played it, and especially now that I have it mostly tuned up, it's a definite keeper. I've decided to go ahead with getting the parts to do the resto on Pinbot as well.
The repro playfield, plastics, and mini playfield will be 862$ shipped. I paid 200$ for the actual game. At that point, we're pretty much talking about buying a nice one, and that's not even including other stuff I will end up replacing like sockets, wires, etc. I'm falling more on the side of that these are keepers for me, so I feel the price is justified to effectively have new playfields and plastics for these machines that will last a very long time, and I don't see leaving my collection for a very long time, if ever.
Question is, where's the line between trying to build a beautiful machine that will hopefully function for a very long time, and just buying one that's already been taken care of, but perhaps has a mylared playfield, or other cosmetic issues that will never be correctable?
