Tag: metal
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Polishing stuff can be fun
Actually i hate polishing most things, but metal shooter rods are really fun to polish. I just pop the rod into my drill and work it through scotch pads. In the end i’ll spin it on a rag with mother’s.
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Taxi metals, polished up
Finished wet sanding all the steel guides for Taxi. Steps: 220 -> green scrubby -> 400 -> 600 -> 800. Some didn’t get all steps (only the worst got 220), but it’s still a lot of elbow grease. Will polish the most visible ones a bit further with Mother’s mag polish but I’m really happy…
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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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Metal metal metal
Spent a good long time polishing these metal parts from Shadow. Very happy with how they came out. Now everything is ready to go back on the machine. Reassembly starts tonight.
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Cleaning Shadow parts
Spent about 4 hours cleaning and organizing parts. Still need to polish metals, but screws, posts, plastics, and other various crap is clean and polished and ready to go.
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Tumble time for Space Mission parts
Pulled the Space Mission rollover switch wires out of the tumbler and cleaned them up. They were super yucky before and now they are shiny. Then I put all of the Spanish Eyes metal into the tumbler to get that started. I also spent some time organizing Space Mission stuff to see what I have…
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Big Guns and Taxi work
Still troubleshooting Big Guns. Getting some good help from Pinside on that but it’s terribly slow going and I feel confused about everything. In the meantime I got some LED strips from Comet that I plan to place under the cannon plastics in Big Guns to help light that area and the upper part of…
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Taxi: hardware sorting
All the hardware from Taxi. The top set has been tumble polished and cleaned. The bottom set is organized so I can take an inventory and replace most of it. These kinds of tasks take quite a long time.
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Backbox metal
Cleaned and polished these metal pieces from the Big Guns backbox. I’m not going to paint this grille black, but I’m considering red or yellow.