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  • Taxi playfield overlay installed

    Taxi playfield overlay installed

    I found someone to install the overlay and clear coat the Taxi playfield for me. Today i got this text from him and i am just TOO excited. He’ll clear and level over this and then I will get it home and start repopulating! So crazy that this machine will finally be playable soon.

  • Space Mission troubles

    Space Mission troubles

    Pulled the switch board out of the bottom of the cab so that I can see better to fix whatever is wrong with this thing. I am 95% certain that it is a switch problem on the score motor. I am going to go through all of the relays on this and the backbox before…

  • Playing pinball, not fixing

    Playing pinball, not fixing

    Been playing a lot and not fixing anything. Due to this, there is a growing number of issues to attend to. I need a day or two off to just focus, the post-work, post-9pm time is hard for me right now since I’ve been trying to get up early. Going to bring Big Guns to…

  • My kids are getting really good at pinball

    My kids are getting really good at pinball

    5yr old boy has been focusing most of his limited playing time on Shadow and he’s getting pretty dang good. Just over this weekend he had 2 games over 200 Million (215, 225). He’s got pretty great control over his shots, but little working knowledge of how to advance the game and score (outside of…

  • Sanding wood patches

    Sanding wood patches

    Block sanded the entire playfield again at 400 grit and worked the newly patched spots down. Shooter lane is great, but I’ll probably need to paint it fake woodgrain so it’s not obvious. Next step I’m gonna do a light poly coat.

  • Taxi playfield overlay arrives

    Taxi playfield overlay arrives

    Very exciting things to come

  • Taxi, wood repairs

    Taxi, wood repairs

    This area of the shooter lane was totally ruined and was preventing good ball launches up to the spinout ramp, so here i have messed it up more removing all the soft flakey wood and putting in some holes to anchor the JB Wood that i’m going to use to rebuild it. In other news,…

  • Goodbye Taxi playfield art

    Goodbye Taxi playfield art

    I didn’t expect to end up where i did, but after giving up on scraping the crap off the playfield, i thought i’d take a crack at sanding. Pretty quickly it became clear that there was no way to gingerly sand off selective areas, as adjacent areas would get worn down to the white undercoat…