Fredericksburg, VA
After quite a few people reached out regarding the restoration process of some of my previous games, will start here with my next projects. Been playing, trading, shipping containers, restoring, collecting and parting out games for 20+ years. I finally took time over a year ago, to build out a room in the basement to make the restoration process be more organized and enjoyable, as I typically just had the entire basement, garage, and game room filled with parts and projects continually going on.
so here we go....Fish Tales & Funhouse are up next
Never too concerned with starting condition of playfields, playfields or cabinets as I primarily replace as many new parts as possible. My main issue is the time consuming part that corroded and rusted parts take up. However, those games are also the most rewarding.
The goal is to have multiple projects going on at the same time as much of the process is repetitive and much simpler if you can have cabinet restorations strip down, parts cleaning, refinishing all going on together. This is especially useful when you are waiting on parts or issues arise, you can move to another part of the process with another game and not sitting around waiting for backordered items to show up.
Generally the goal is to finish 2-3 games at a time in a 3 to 6 month period while going at a normal leisurely pace when free days open themselves up between, life, kids and work.
Fish Tales is an interesting project that happened to present itself from a TMNT which was sold to a local Operator / Collector who unfortunately had a friend who passed while they were bringing this Fish Tales back to life. So I'm looking forward to this project as it has some additional meaning and story behind it.
This game was literally picked up in multiple pieces. Missing boards, parts, glass, topper, lower cabinet had the bottom fall out at some point.
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