Not sure whether I should do this, but here we go .....
Took a lot of finding to get one in this condition. I have asked around knowledgeable folk for a value, these are sought after but very rarely come up for sale.
Given how rarely these trade I will consider sensible four figure offers before I put it on Gumtree.
Bought from a forum member but has been tombstoned since and never even connected up. Stored inside my house while I was building my pinshed.
It was the second game to go into my new pinshed today. It fired up first time. But the reality is that I have 13 games and my shed seats 12. I am knee deep in refurbing my centaur/ scared stiff and I do not have the appetite to tune/ clean/ fiddle with Flash Gordon too as virtually all of my maintenance mojo has been depleted by my new pinshed.
Other than the cash box, I have not stripped out the nice stuff like the altek boards or original solenoids, nice coin door, or anything else to put in my other Classic Ballys.
The good ...
Took a lot of finding to get one in this condition. I have asked around knowledgeable folk for a value, these are sought after but very rarely come up for sale.
Given how rarely these trade I will consider sensible four figure offers before I put it on Gumtree.
Bought from a forum member but has been tombstoned since and never even connected up. Stored inside my house while I was building my pinshed.
It was the second game to go into my new pinshed today. It fired up first time. But the reality is that I have 13 games and my shed seats 12. I am knee deep in refurbing my centaur/ scared stiff and I do not have the appetite to tune/ clean/ fiddle with Flash Gordon too as virtually all of my maintenance mojo has been depleted by my new pinshed.
Other than the cash box, I have not stripped out the nice stuff like the altek boards or original solenoids, nice coin door, or anything else to put in my other Classic Ballys.
The good ...
- Lovely backglass, virtually mint other than a 5p sized bit of wear caused by the lock mechanism at the top right. As good as you will likely find in the UK. See photos
- Every solenoid, switch and lamp works
- The high voltage strobe in the backbox works
- Playfield under Mylar so in very good order
- No broken plastics
- Full set of correct drops
- Full set of correct pops
- Nice and clean internals, not filthy and corroded to hell like so many games this age are
- Two altek boards - mpu and solenoid
- Not water damaged, given the shiny metal it has led a dry life
- The squawk and talk board sounds ok
- This game has been shown love in the past. Evidenced by the Altek boards and also the re-capping of the sound board
- Even smells ok !
- Cabinet has faded, like they all do
- The Mylar is lifting at the edges in some places, so some exposed glue needs removing where the Mylar has trimmed back
- A previous owner very proficiently soldered wires (then carefully insulated them) to the mpu board rather than rebuilding the connector ! See photo. BUT it worked and there is no need to remove these as you can take the head off leaving these wires and the board in place
- The player two display is showing some minor burn, but still works fine and these original displays are available second hand as folk upgrade them to LEDs. See photo
- Fully working game, but needs switches adjusting/ some mechs cleaning/ some solenoid sleeves/ new linear flipper cams (available) etc to get it properly tuned
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