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Xenon pinball game UPDATE Pics Added
2PacMan:
This may sound like a silly question, but i've never owned a pin before, so i've never looked at the guts of one before. Where do i need to look to find this battery to check for corrosion??
What was it originally used for, how were you able to take the battery out and it still ran properly?
Is that really the only thing i need to look for other than the obvious playfield marks/ flipper sensitivity?
I checked out that blue light strip....def. cool. I will get that if i buy the pin. The light seems reasonable priced too.
ChadTower:
The batteries are going to be standard AA. They will be behind the backglass in the head, clearly visible once the glass is removed. There will be a green trail of dried acid if they have leaked.
Don't check for the crispness of the flippers, just make sure they at least attempt to work. The artwork is most important, followed by operation. Remember, something that doesn't work can be fixed, but art that has been trashed is much much harder.
2PacMan:
Is the glass easy to remove?? I'm going to his house to look at it, but i don't know if he's gonna want me to take it all apart, does the glass come off fairly easily? What were the batteries used for?? Even if the batteries were corroded, couldn't i just remove them and not use them like that person who posted earlier did? Isn't corrosion easy to clean off? Or does it do perm. damage?
So if the flippers don't work very well, i should still buy it and just have them fixed/? What type of buttons are the flippers? Just standard leaf-switches?? And any burned out lights on the playfield are easy to fix too, right, just replace standard bulbs? So artwork should come first, correct? I might try to bring a camera to take pics, i'll have to see..i'll post them if i can.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: 2PacMan on July 06, 2005, 08:57:25 am ---Is the glass easy to remove??
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mp2526:
--- Quote from: 2PacMan on July 05, 2005, 12:39:51 pm ---unless he's one of these idiots that thinks old pins are worth thousands of dollars, who knows, he knows it the first pin to use the voice thing, so i guess he thinks that makes it worth more
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FYI...I believe William's Gorgar was the first commercially released pin to have a voice, although Xenon was Bally's first voice pin.
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