How the hell???

[GORGAR 1]

How the hell do you get PF wear like this??? Cleaning the playfield with Sand-paper??

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170336982617&fromMakeTrack=true&ssPageName=VIP:watchlink:top:au

Peter

[Extra Ball]

Yeah Peter, you would suspect the PF was exposed to weather at some stage to help it along. How many Flash Gordons appearing on ebay of late!

[ajlaird]

Pitted pinballs?

Looks like a resto the seller or someone before him/her has given up on - check the cabinet.

[illawarra_steelers]

Agreed Peter

Looked at that last night and just shook my head

Either way it's very sad but on the other hand 10 - 15 years ago this game would of been parted out.

So on a positive note the game will be saved

[acejas]

This is something I would love to restore if it was local and for $100

[ROLLERBALL]

you think thats bad....you didnt see my Black knight playfield....times the flash gordon wear by 20 and you have some idea...lol

[Strangeways]

I believe Classic Playfields are reproducing this playfield - might be worth shooting them an email if you are interested in the game

[Ric]

looks like water - the wood itself is cracking and separating and the bare wood is stained

[SPURR]

I love doing a restore but this is beyond a joke

[ddstoys]

Good project for someone for the right price

[Ric]

it couldn't go much above the current price before it becomes an expensive project - it needs a new PF plain and simple - and that aint gonig to be easy to find or cheap.

The rest of it actually doesn't look too bad and the boards look ok too (in as much as a phot can really tell you

[Extra Ball]

hate how they fade to lipstick pink

[GORGAR 1]

Agreed Peter

Looked at that last night and just shook my head

Either way it's very sad but on the other hand 10 - 15 years ago this game would of been parted out.

So on a positive note the game will be saved

Your right Tony-with abit of investment/new playfield its another game saved..

Peter

[MartyJ]

Its had a hard life....Shame.

To be fair to the seller, at least he hasn't tried it with the usual lines of 'playfield has some wear, typical for its age' or 'that sh*t will buff out'....

[pinballist]

The other thing that's a worry is the missing fuses.  A fuse normally blows when there's an intense current situation, this could mean something has shorted in the machine.  From personal experience the only time I ever blew fuses in my machines was when I would accidentally drop a screwdriver in the base of the machine.  The fact that these fuses are actually missing is a bit of a worry and could potentially mean that they were removed to subvert any discussion about the machine's operation ;)

Either way if I was buying this I'd be thinking blown power stage or transformer problem.