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Here we have a great, classic Williams System 11B pinball machine from the golden age of pinball.....BIG GUNS!!!! This is a fun game designed by famous pinball designer Mark Richie (Fish Tales, Indiana Jones, Taxi, etc...) And this one is a project, so it should sell much more reasonably than if it were 100%. Great opportunity for those of you out there who know how or want to learn to work on pinballs and restore them.
This is a project I bought for myself about 10-15 years ago, knowing it would be a relatively easy project. But now I'm 10-15 years older, and have some many project games (hundreds) that I don't have enough life left to have any hope of finishing them all. So I'm letting them go.
The game is physically in very good condition. The playfield in particular is excellent. It is mostly covered with mylar and those areas will clean up perfectly. Where there is no mylar, there is a little wear but not bad in my opinion. the plastics appear to be in excellent condition but definitely need a good cleaning. The cabinet is great - solid, with no water damage or major flaws anywhere. Should clean and touch up to be virtually perfect. The backglass is a translite that should be attached to a piece of glass. But the piece of glass is missing - so you will need to order either a piece of glass or plexiglass for it. This is simple and inexpensive - just call any glass shop and give them the dimensions. The speaker grill cover plexi is in good condition but needs re-glued down onto the speaker grill.
Electronically, the game is mostly complete and in very good condition. All of the boards in the head look in excellent condition except the main MPU/driver board. That board has been a bit cannibalized and I would recommend just buying the Rottendog System 11 replacement PCB to save you a lot of headache. I'm sure an expert could get this board working - it doesn't appear to have acid damage. But some idiot appears to have removed some ICs from the board. I really can't believe it and would love to hear what his reasoning was. I mean none of these chips are expensive, so why on earth would anyone desolder these chips and remove them from the board. I doubt it was because they weren't working on this board because then they would have installed sockets for new chips and replaced them. It's like they needed the parts. Anyway, I don't know - but like I said, just buy a rottendog and be done with it. There's a lot going on on this board and it could take a lot of time to trace down issues with this board.
The score display board will also need to be replaced. Yes, you could repair the one that is there - there is one 7-digit alpha-numeric display glass missing. But those glasses don't grow on trees and they are not the easiest things to replace. And replacement display boards are actually pretty cheap. So just replace it and never have to think about it again. Plus, then you never need to worry about the +100/-100V section of the power supply board....it's no longer needed and can blow up without affecting the game.
The playfield electronics and hardware look to be about 99% complete. Someone did harvest the ball launch assembly but I replaced it with parts I had in stock. I did notice a couple of other lane switches missing, but those are parts that are available from Marco specialties for a couple bucks. So no big deal at all. Otherwise, everything looks intact and in good operable condition. It appears that someone started rebuilding the flippers and got one or maybe 2 done. The others should be done too (this game has 4 flippers total).
The coin door is in pretty good condition and has two working quarter coin mechs.
So anyway, this is a great pinball project for you. After you replace those couple of PCBs and tweak a few playfield components, clean and shop the playfield, you'll have an awesome game with a pretty high value.
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