I’ve had some time to tear down the NBA and found a few parts that were broken or missing. First I knew when I got the game it was missing a round target, a plastic piece with a basketball player on it (Defender plastic) and a rebound rubber bracket. I posted on the newsgroups that I was looking for these parts and ended up finding the defender plastic and the bracket for $28 as seen above.
Later on during more dis assembly I found that the middle ramp was cracked very badly:
I went searching and found out that Pinball Spare Parts Australia had the middle ramp plus a few other goodies I wanted. It was expensive to ship via air from Australia so I went ahead and purchased a few more parts like some plastic pieces that I found were broken and another defender plastic since they break easily. I wish I found the defender plastic here first since this was only $6 (the other one was $15!!).
I ended up doing some board work on the CPU board on this game. I ended up replacing the battery holder, installing a few sockets and SIP strips for three ICs that were dead and the ICs themselves.
Here is where I am now at price wise:
Project Start: $800
Parts to repair CPU board:
Battery Holder - $4.95
Sockets – $.80
SIP Strip – $.35
ICs – $1.70
Parts Purchased from another hobbiest:
Defender Plastic – $15
Rebound Rubber Bracket – $18
Parts Purchased from Pinball Spare Parts Australia:
Defender Plastic – $6
Playfield Plastic – $4.05
Misc Clear Playfield Plastic – $3.95
Backbox Clear Plastics – $29.95
Center Ramp Assembly – $39.95
Total Project Cost as of this post: $924.70
On another note I will be putting up a separate, detailed blog post detailing the actual work I did to this game at the end of the job. For the time being feel free to peruse the pictures in my restoration gallery for this game here to get an idea of what is going on.
I like this approach Hugh – keep it coming. You are the next best thing to the pinball ninja’s repair blog.