Don't be a sausage!

So the main reason I am starting this blog is because a good friend of mine has decided he would let me try and get his funhouse back into fighting shape. I think this will be a great way that he can see my progress as I go along. The deal is I do all the labor, he pays for parts, and I get to keep and play it a while once it is up and running. I am very excited to tackle this! This is a great deal for me as I really love cleaning stuff, and I want some more experience in "restoring" games. I put that in quotes because this will not be a high end restore, rather a restore in which I get a game nice and cleaned up and working properly. For example: I will not be sanding the cabinet down and applying all new decals. There are people out there that do really fantastic jobs restoring machines, and I don't think its fair to say that I am anywhere near there level. Here is a couple of quick pics of how I got it, I will post more later. Notice that all of the rubbers need replacing, that's for sure. There is mylar and at this time we have decided to leave it be. There is some bubbling but I am unsure if it will really affect the gameplay. That will be the deciding factor later on (that and what my friend ultimately wants to do, we all know the dangers of mylar removal.) Having said that it really has done its job. There is very little wear anywhere on the playfield.

The cabinet has seen better days. But I always say, you don't play the cabinet of a pinball machine. Plus if you have more than one lined up who really sees the sides of it anyway? The one thing I don't like is that the front of the backbox around the translate has a lot of chipping where it shows bare wood underneath. Kind of an eye sore. Might be something worth touching up, but that would be much later down the road.

Did a quick visual inspection of under the playfield and it is surprisingly clean. Initial thoughts are that all coil sleeves need replacing, flippers all can probably use a rebuild to some dergree, but looking good so far. Also this is my first game I have worked on with a subway, that thing is filthy!

You may also notice someone is missing, Rudy has left the building! I do have rudy safe and sound at home, he came removed and taken apart. I can tell he will need a lot of work but we will get to that later.

I am finally getting the pin moved from my garage to my gameroom where I do all my work so more updates soon.