Tag: pinball restoration
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Black touch-ups
Removed the mylar adhesive using the flour method (pictured up top). Basically you soak the adhesive area with goo gone and then sprinkle it with flour. Wait a few minutes and it rolls up in the flour. Pretty simple. Compared to removing the full playfield mylar on Big Guns this was nothing. Then I cleaned…
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Removing mylar from around the pops
I’m trying to finish touching up the Space Mission playfield so I can level the inserts and clear the playfield. I’ve been doing little bits here and there. Tonight I had the hair dryer out to help dry the polycrylic for Big Guns so I decided it was time to finally remove the mylar circles…
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Big Guns: cabinet stripes
Painted green stripes color matched to the playfield and translite. Unfortunately the middle stripe didn’t come out as light as I thought it would, so I’ll have to go back in to do that. Before I do anything else I’m going to touch up in a few spots where paint lifted once again, then hit…
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Masking for stripes
Spent more time this afternoon attempting to get Surf Champ running based upon some suggestions I got from Pinsiders. Unfortunately none of those solved my problem but I was able to fix a long-standing issue with the player 2 scoring, so there is a bright side! Landed on a design for the Big Guns cabinet…
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Custom Big Guns cab painting
This evening I sanded and scraped back into the cabinet to dull the paint areas and also to create more imperfections. This needed to be done before I could go back over it with more paint. After everybody went to bed I managed to get the first round of texture black on. The goal is…
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Big Guns odds & ends
Refinished this part of the shooter assembly. I hadn’t planned to do this but when I looked at it next to the redone coin door it seemed necessary. I’ve been taking it easy the last couple days and sketching ideas for the cabinet while I wait for the spray paint to cure. Also ordered a…
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A “Make it work” moment for Big Guns
I’m taking a drastically different approach with the cabinet. I don’t want to spend any more money or increase the rebuild timeline with this cabinet. Instead of trying to make it look like Big Guns (which is nearly impossible at this point and would require starting over from scratch) I’ve decided to treat it like…
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Cabinet stencil disaster
Turns out I was right to feel uneasy about my work last night. The adhesive stencil took up huge chunks of the paint job. It’s a complete disaster. When i saw how awful it was, I just got a paint scraper and started going at it to pull up all of the small vinyl stencil…
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Big Guns yellow stencil
It was a really quiet night so I decided to go ahead and lay down the stencils and paint yellow. I don’t think I did a very good job with it. I had quite a bit of difficulty getting the stencils on without wrinkles, and when I sprayed I definitely got it on too thick…