The question for the day. Is it worth the time ,money,effort,to do a full restoration? Is it worth buying a mint or restored game? Would you do it yourself or get CRISS HUTCHINS or CHAD KELLER to restore one? Does it half to be an "A" list pin to qualify for a full rstoration?
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From what I have seen, guys go overboard with an HEP because they want to build the ultimate "keeper" for themselves.
In the end when it ends up for sale they are hard pressed to get their money back out. So it's only worth it if you really want an extraordinary copy of a particular game for yourself.
If you start with good stock and do a good shop job, you end up with a nice pin at a fraction of the cost.
From an economics standpoint, even an uber A list will be hard to recover from a full restoration if your looking at $.
If you have the money and want the best, sure go buy games for the Professionals. But if you are like most of us, my suggestion would be to buy games in decent shape and restore it to the standard you like. Restoring it, doing the work is half the fun if you enjoy the work. But realize that you rarely get back what you put into it, so be prepared to keep it for a while.
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myself. sending it to one of these guys is stupid. you're missing all the fun of what this is all about.
Very true. It's a hobby and part of that is fixing up pins for your own personal enjoyment.
Even when I had a CC pf in a game. It got dirty after a few plays to the point all that work really didn't matter. I got more out of keeping the pf clean than CC. CC when you send pf in, sure. If it's uneven or needs fixing then it is a great restoration technique.
Depends on the situation. If I could pickup a title I wanted in a fully restored state for a very reasonable price I would. But I would much rather buy a nice example of the same game and do all the work myself, as that is the best part of this hobby for me.
Does it half to be an "A" list pin to qualify for a full rstoration?
Absolutely not.
As for the CC'd PF route, the only time I'll get a PF CC'd is if there is artwork to be repaired. (which in my case so far has been T2, Shadow, ToM & Wh20) I wouldn't send out a PF otherwise, just clean and wax...
You lost me at PF wear..... Once you factor in the cost to touchup and CC the PF that pretty much negates any deal to be had. I'd rather have an RFM with no PF wear spots with a working monitor for $600-800 more.
- If you enjoy the process, do it yourself, and if there are parts you don't enjoy, send them out to the guys that "do" enjoy that part of it, and pay them.
-If you want a mint game, and aren't really interested in resto work, just buy a mint game, you'll be much happier
example: I enjoy artwork, so I didn't mind spending weeks doing KISS stencils...however, I don't enjoy shopping around for transformers and chips, so I'd rather just buy the damn things, know what I mean?
As for keepers, hmmm, I'm not sure there "are" any keepers, I mean, technically, it's not 100% kept until we're dead right? So I don't know, therefore I do what I enjoy, and I scrap or delegate the things I don't.
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Once you factor in the cost to touchup and CC the PF that pretty much negates any deal to be had. I'd rather have an RFM with no PF wear spots with a working monitor for $600-800 more.
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