Calimori' date=' post: 1695246 said:
I wondered that with my TAF. A new play field (if you can find one) was about £700, new cab about £700, all new plastics and toys £500. You are really only keeping the electronics. Buy a knackered one for £1k and it would be a mint machine for under £3k. Obviously you could save money and do the cab yourself, not all the plastics will be junk but it would be a lot of effort and these days even junk version of the machines are selling.
Might be worth it for MM though...
Whilst your figures look good on paper, if you want to make a "mint" example the new parts list goes something like this:
Decals, Playfield, DMD, Glass, Side rails
Legs, bolts, levellers, Coin door, Playfield glass channel
Plastics, pinbits plastic protectors (where available)
Pop bumper assembly (caps, bodies, bases, skirts, rod/ring, yokes)
Star posts, lane guides, rubbers
Scoop (where available)
Plastic ramps
Targets
Re-plating of metal parts
Flipper rebuild kit
New coils (Optional)
Very quickly, your parts list will add up to £2k. Clearly you have old parts to sell (if ok) but then on top of that you have all the hours to put in which runs something like:
Cabinet work + decals + strip and rebuild - 25
Strip old playfield - 3
Clean all game specific parts to be re-used - 15+
T Nut new playfield - 1
Refinish metal lane guides - 2
Put metal posts into new playfield (drilling new playfield is a necessity) - 2
Rebuild underside of playfield - 8
Take off loom, clean and put on new playfield - 10
Rebuild top side of playfield - 12
Clean and service boards - 5
Connect up boards - 1
Those figures are probably on the low side, I don't do my own cabinets anymore as it takes too long, I normally spend somewhere around 70 hours on a restore but they do turn out nice so it is worth it. Here's one in progress:
http://s94.photobucket.com/albums/l107/mufcmufc/TZ/