Tag: clear coat
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Space Mission playfield: wet sand, cut, and polish!
Wet sanded clear coat at 600/800/1000/1200/1500/2000. Then a medium cut with a rotary buffer followed by swirl remover. Looks pretty remarkable, but I’ve got to wait for a couple weeks because it doesn’t appear to have fully cured yet. I am chomping at the bit to put this back together!
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Clear coating Space Mission
I haven’t been doing anything out in the garage but playing Surf Champ since I fixed it. Last week I broke that habit and put on my nitrile gloves and my respirator and rolled the second to last coat of clear on. Put the final coat on tonight. I know that it won’t be completely…
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The valleys have all been filled
I’ll knock down the overfill on Thursday night and then I’m thinking two more roller coats, cut and polish. It’s going to be great. At this point I’m obsessing about the smallest things, but the before and after on the playfield when it’s done is going to be DRAMATIC even though there will be imperfections.…
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Another roll
Rolled another coat of clear on Space Mission. At this point I’m extremely confident that this is going to turn out well. I still have some valleys to fill, but i think one more dropper round and two more roll coats will do it. It’s already flatter and more perfect than most of the playfields…
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I’m still sanding
Spent about two hours block sanding this playfield after dropper filling valleys and a coat of clear. It’s NEARLY flat, but i managed to sand off a bit of paint in one area (damn!) but i think it’s mostly hidden during game play so i may just leave that. It’s really tough to get these…
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Block sanding and stripe painting
Block sanded the first coat of clear on Space Mission. It’s pretty nerve racking to sand away at the surface I have so meticulously touched up over the past weeks. I stopped several times to wipe down with naptha to make sure I wasn’t cutting into paint. I think I could have gone down further…
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Filling cupped inserts
Filled up all the Space Mission inserts with automotive clear. I think I pooled it up too much in some places and not enough in others. Next step is a full coat of clear.