I feel your pain Mark. I have spent so much time and money on getting a pinball back to how it should look and play knowing that I will never get back what I have put into it. Then like a lemon sell it and as soon as its gone regret sets in.
Why do we do it? Why? Because we love these machines and the feeling that you get once a machine has reached the standards that you wanted to achieve at the end, its all worth it.
Even when you make a loss you know that this machine that you have spent so much time and money on will be around giving pleasure for a hell of a lot longer than it would have been.
At the moment I am on with my second TOTAN, My first I sold and probably came out even on. This one I am already -$400 on and still a way to go but only in man hours.Its looking so good that I keep saying that it will be a keeper but deep down when space gets a little tight I will probably end up selling it. Another regret in the making.
Darren.
