thinking & making
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Scraping ain’t going to work
Tried scraping the playfield but that isn’t going to work. Will have to sand it down completely.
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Star Jet, Bally (1963)
Played several games of Star Jet at a friend’s house last night. One of the most beautiful machines I’ve ever played. And fun, too!
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My Taxi playfield is a mess
I am finally trying to make some headway with this playfield. It’s such a colossal mess. The short version is that some previous owner sprayed Varathane (or similar) clear coat all over the playfield but did so without removing much of anything. Posts, metal, leaf switches, etc all got sprayed. Not only is it grossly…
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Surf Champ drop target rebuild
Cleaned the whole mechanism and replaced the grimy old targets with new. Pretty awesome feeling to be able to knock it out so quickly. Gonna rebuild the pops on this machine next.
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Sinbad complete!
What i thought would be less than an hour’s work to adjust the flipper bats and start playing the game became a few hours of work. First, after adjusting the flippers and starting to tighten the bats in place, i realized that on two of the flipper mechs i accidentally got the bushings wrong, putting…
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Making metal look great
Pulled the metal parts out of the tumbler and wiped them all down to remove dust. Also cleaned a number of larger metal parts and hit them up with mother’s mag polish and they are looking good. Ordered some oddball replacement screws and new flipper bats and now I’ve got everything in order. Just need…
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Repopulating Sinbad and getting aggressive with the Taxi playfield
Got everything but the flippers done on Sinbad over the weekend. My oldest helped a bit on Saturday and that was fun. Got the Taxi playfield back on the rotisserie and started messing with it. Got some good results from a green scrubby and citrus degreaser. I’m bound to remove some good paint too but…
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Sinbad: underside completed
Reinstalled all of the leaf switches and stand up targets that poke up through the playfield, including the ones that attach to the drop target mechs. Reinstalled the mech that kicks up a new ball. Put all of the rollover metal pieces back on and adjusted leaf switches. Reinstalled the metal trim pieces that meet…
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Repopulating Sinbad (progress)
Apron, top arc, and metal guides all in