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McHale:

But for heaven's sake, PULL OUT THE BOARDS if nothing else.  Everything else can be easily duplicated - cabs, artwork, marquee, etc. But the boards... not so much.  If one of my cabs had a board problem, I can't just order a new board.  I need to seek one out. 

-Mc

paigeoliver:


--- Quote from: McHale on August 04, 2013, 11:52:17 pm ---But for heaven's sake, PULL OUT THE BOARDS if nothing else.  Everything else can be easily duplicated - cabs, artwork, marquee, etc. But the boards... not so much.  If one of my cabs had a board problem, I can't just order a new board.  I need to seek one out. 

-Mc

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Nobody in the business is trashing cabinets with boards in them. When I burn or trash a cabinet there is usually nothing there but wood, t-molding and the feet on the bottom, and I'll take the t-molding and the feet too if they are in decent shape.

McHale:


--- Quote from: paigeoliver on August 05, 2013, 04:25:00 pm ---
Nobody in the business is trashing cabinets with boards in them. When I burn or trash a cabinet there is usually nothing there but wood, t-molding and the feet on the bottom, and I'll take the t-molding and the feet too if they are in decent shape.

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Rewatch the video.  PLENTY of boards getting trashed.  VERY sad.

jennifer:

      Its an advertisment.... designed to get people like you and myself all worked up about saving some of there other games. They did this with a Ms pac a few years back "off the roof" in a Tv ad. It is effective however, and a very creative billboard. Its hard to say about those boards though, they may lightning strikes or some other form of distressed board, possibly not even related to the game in question... But, what you could do to find out is call them, They do have lots of other games and parts, And a awsome group of people to deal with. (Yes TNT, Jennifer gives you 2 thumbs up) ;)

paigeoliver:

Eh, I have seen the video and the others. It is just part of their infomercial. They can't strip the cabs down to the bare wood and still get any effect from what they are trying to show. There is still nothing but junk going off that roof. All the pins looked like trashed Gottlieb/Premiere ones. The few boards I saw seemed to fly out of the pinball cabs and they were likely either quite defective or a board type that is reproed and is replaced with reproduction as part of every restoration.

So to recap. Gottlieb / Premiere pins. Very little demand for these pins, any trashed one is basically a parts machine. Low demand also means that you can't even get a lot of the restoration bits for these machines without pulling them off parts cabinets.

Tempest cabinet. Atari color vector cabinets outnumber the monitors significantly. The cabinet had signs of physical damage. I am sure the rough control panel and coin door survived the fall. They tossed some sort of tube/incomplete monitor in it, but Todd is smart enough not to toss even a dead WG 6100 off a roof, it was certainly something else.

Omega Race. No monitors out there, no boards out there. Coin door and control panel probably survived the fall.

Afterburner, fell down in 2 pieces because the sucker had already been parted of everything worth while.

Toobin. That looked beyond saving to me. Toobin' used a 19" medium resolution monitor and if that is missing you might as well toss the whole game in the trash because 19" medium resolution monitors that aren't already in a game don't exist.

Todd has never been anything but great to the collecting community. It is absolutely impossible to operate as a game dealer without trashing some cabinets now and then. At least he makes it fun. I usually don't even take a picture.

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