Jick Magger
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- Jul 6, 2010
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- Favorite Pinball Machine
- Don't have one (yet)
Greetings!
So, I was recently given a Bally Paragon machine by my grandpa. It was originally his brother's; he died about 25 years ago, and this machine has been sitting in a barn or open garage or something since then. Basically, people had forgotten it existed until my great uncle's wife died this year.
ANYWAY
Hoping to get it back into working order, I took the machine, and started trying to clean it up. I opened the backbox, and much to my horror, found that wasps had made it their home at some point in the past.
There's at least 4 or 5 old nests in there. A few are on circuit boards, one on a heat sink, one on one of the hi score things.
Other than it being quite dirty, and having had wasps living in it, there doesn't seem to be much obvious damage. But then again, I don't really know much of anything about this sort of stuff.
Googling "wasps nests in my pinball machine" didn't turn much of anything up, so I'm asking here: do you think this would have ruined the machine? Is there a chance it might still work, or would it just be a waste of my time?
So, I was recently given a Bally Paragon machine by my grandpa. It was originally his brother's; he died about 25 years ago, and this machine has been sitting in a barn or open garage or something since then. Basically, people had forgotten it existed until my great uncle's wife died this year.
ANYWAY
Hoping to get it back into working order, I took the machine, and started trying to clean it up. I opened the backbox, and much to my horror, found that wasps had made it their home at some point in the past.
There's at least 4 or 5 old nests in there. A few are on circuit boards, one on a heat sink, one on one of the hi score things.
Other than it being quite dirty, and having had wasps living in it, there doesn't seem to be much obvious damage. But then again, I don't really know much of anything about this sort of stuff.
Googling "wasps nests in my pinball machine" didn't turn much of anything up, so I'm asking here: do you think this would have ruined the machine? Is there a chance it might still work, or would it just be a waste of my time?