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Complete Sample Indiana Jones

Alpha1

Alpha1

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Thought I would put my thread up here that's been on UKVAC for the last 8 years... It won't have as much text and will be more picture orientated.

I found this in an Operators warehouse and quickly gobbled them all up with a fellow collector.

I started restoring the Indiana Jones in August 2012... and it's now hopefully only a month or so away from being completed. This will fast track the work I have done to it.

To cut a long story short I only found out it was a sample after Matt Adams told me it was, as he restored the playfield and noticed the different inserts.

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The initial assessment of the PCBs and the playfield again didn't instill to much confidence. Loads of stuff missing!

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So apart from missing PCBs, the biggest issue is lots of missing playfield parts! This game has been used to repair others!

I use my normal Operator channels and find an Op with a few playfields..

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TADA!

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He wants CRAZY money though! And the playfield is worn between the flipper area..

However it was only crazy money if I wanted the playfield! (no idea why...) So he strips it for me and I get all the parts top and bottom side for CHEAP!

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Whilst I am waiting for the parts to arrive I look for cabinet artwork.

There's a ton of CRAP artwork on the market so I make sure I get the proper good stuff.

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I get new serial decals and other associated decals with the matching numbers and look

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I strike a deal with Manny (remember him! He was cool!) and he starts decaling the cabinet.

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I get introduced to Matt Adams and the beginning of a beautiful friendship occurs with our mutual love of RoadShow. He offers to do the playfield for me so I drop it round with all the additional parts from the stripped playfield.

He also happened to have a complete unbroken plane so I buy that off him and I now have all the bits!

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Manny continues with the cabinet. I ask Manny to track the original braiding so when the new braiding is installed it follows the way it was installed at the factory. He also applies a biscuit fix to the hole in the side.

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I go with a two-tone inside finish. Yellow and black.

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As the game is a 3 coin door version and also has this on the serial sticker as '3 slot', I didn't want to change the coin door. Instead it gets mirror polish chromed

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And I get a NOS gun handle from PH
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and metal parts for the playfield get tumbled and polished
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Special brass legs obtained and stupid cost
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And I begin to put the main cabinet on its legs
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And that is as far as I got - November 2013.

I needed PCBs and wanted nice originals, and I was unprepared to pay £1500+ to get them.

So I went on Operator raids, and over the next 7 years finally amassed a load of WPC PCBs for it by basically clearing out warehouses.

And as of this month, I sent the machine with the PCBs to Keith @ New Forest Pinball to install and most likely fix the PCBs and finish the game off.

As it's been so long I had also grabbed a few other bits. A Pin2DMD, and upgraded speaker system and I thought it best to rerubber the game with Titans and Superbands.

Hopefully it will be working and i'll have pictures in the next month or so.
 
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