A New Adventure Begins

Well, I went out and got me a new project today. It's a pinball machines called Attila the Hun, made by Game Plan in 1984. This is a Solid State (SS) game, as opposed to an Electo-Mechanical (EM) Game like I'm used to working with. Because of this, it's going to be MUCH more difficult for me to diagnose and repair. I've never seen a SS game before let alone work on one. Anyway, I digress...I bought this off of a co-worker for $75. Not bad...until I brought it home...For starters, it was kept outside. And it's in the middle of winter in Buffalo, NY. Not the place for a pinball machine to be stored. When I picked it up, it was covered in snow. I took it home and ripped it apart right away and let the snow melt out of it. Currently it's 100% not working and physically in VERY rough shape. Most of the backbox will need to be rebuilt as it's waterlogged. The circuit boards will need to be repaired, every bit of the machine needs to be cleaned (the playfield has stuff growing on it...ew.) This will probably be my most difficult restoration so far. My biggest concern at the moment is the backglass. From the front it didn't seem so bad. It looked like the paint was starting to bubble off, I didn't think it'd be a problem, I have fixes for that type of problem, then I saw the back of it...someone thought it'd be a good idea to put packaging tape and scotch tape across most of the glass. There's no way to remove that without removing the paint. So it looks like I'll either have to live with it looking bad, or find a replacement (not easy to do). I think my first order of business with this will be to get the electronics working BEFORE I start restoration work. The opposite of what I usually do. Anyway, I'll stop here before I rant too much. Hopefully by my next post, I'll have more of an idea on what I want to get done first. Here's a few pictures of it an hour after acquiring it.