Tag: big guns
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A full day’s work
I took a day off today and mostly worked on the machines. It was fun and very productive. Painted lots and lots of stuff for Big Guns, mostly cabinet related. Regrained, buffed, and polished lots of metal for Space Mission, and some for Big Guns. Painted the blue metal arc for Space Mission and unfortunately…
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Spraying!
Took advantage of the windless evening and sprayed paint for about three hours. 4 coats gloss black on the cab, gloss black on the transformer, and 3 coats textured black on the coin door. At the rate I’m progressing I should have the cabinet stencils painted and the cab reassembled in 2-3 weeks. Exciting!
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Big Guns cabinet paint prep
I ended up spray priming the cabinet last night, but there were a couple places that I filled with putty and forgot to sand down, so I finished sanding those spots out and would have finished priming too if it weren’t for the heavy mist outside. I sanded out the coin door parts and nailed…
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Cabinet repair and prime
It’s not perfect, but I’m really pleased with the patch job I gave the Big Guns cabinet. Sanded the KwikWood out today and managed to get it primed. There are one or two places I need to fill some more, then I can finally start repainting it.
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Broken spinner, faulty lamp, more wood filler
Stepped up to Surf Champ to find that the spinner was broken, which probably happened when my littlest son was playing earlier today. I tried to reattach with epoxy, but I’m not hopeful. That spinner gets pounded. I’m going to look this up on Pinside tomorrow and see what my options are. While I had…
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Coin door teardown
Dismantled the coin door on Big Guns, finally hitting rock bottom on this rehab project. There’s nothing left to take apart!
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Rusty parts
More rusty pinball machine craps to clean. Once I disassemble the coin door I will have completely disassembled the entire pin. This has been an enormous project to take on in my spare time, I will be glad to get to the point when the job can only get smaller!
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Big Guns stripdown
Stripped almost the entire playfield in one night. Work goes so fast on the rotisserie with easy access on all sides. Another hour this morning pulling the last few bits off and I’m ready for removing the Mylar and cleaning.