Diamond Jack
And so it begins. I've seen too many others restore their classic machines to like new condition and now its time for this one. I've been staring at the NOS playfield hanging on the basement wall now for far too long. Im fortunate to have that as the only ones available are NOS (and they cost more than the entire machine if you can find one) and repro EM Gottlieb playfields are extremely rare. Maybe 3 titles at most. Luckily though, licensed repro back glasses and playield plastics are available. It'll be a fun but time consuming project with the playfield swap and all those associated parts, plus the cab and backbox prep and repaint. Fortunately the only stencils I need are for the 3 sizes of diamonds on and some rectangular shapes on the backbox. The rest of the simple graphics can be marked off with tape along the cab and sides of the backbox. At some point someone painted the front of the backbox yellow which is incorrect and there's also supposed to be 3 small diamonds across the bottom front so that'll get corrected.
Pics of the mostly stripped machine and a few of the innards.
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