So dirty was all I really saw. With closer inspection, all of the rubbers from the 4 flippers where dried up cracked and fell off. The other rubbers where intact but nasty. The playfield looked intact, however it had what I thought was just an epic layer of dust. It was far from vibrant looking! I did have the balls to plug it in... because what the hell if it started on fire or blew up I could just chalk it up "Eh it was free". After all this is my first restore on a Pinball Machine. I think this is a great candidate for a first time restore, as these machines are common, and not really all that special. There is not a lot of moving parts, and it is a wide body which gives me a lot of room to move around.
Anyway, it powered up fine, half the lights still worked, the game tried to start but there was a rubber from one of the flippers jammed up where the ball release was. So I could not play. The flippers did flip and no smoke was seen. However there was no sound.
I got the big bastard home and drilled the locks. Now I had to drill the locks of the Popeye machine I purchased a few months ago. That took a good hour. So I was expecting the same kind of time frame. But luckily these locks literally took seconds to drill into, they crumbled! ha ha ha. Never saw anything like that. I was finally able to look into the back box and remove the glass.
(starting from the top left... That is the MPU board basically the brains, top right board is the solenoid driver board, bottom left is the lamp/lights board, that little guy next to that is the new sound board, and the far bottom right is the auxiliary lamp board.)
No battery damage at all... everything looked relatively well maintained. No obvious reasons why there was no sound however. I was able to remove the rubber that was jamming up the ball launch and was able to play a game. Everything seemed to work. The three pop bumpers, all of the stand alone targets, all of the drop targets, everything. So that was pretty damn cool. Cosmetic resto coming up!!!