Tag: pinball
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Rebuilding Spanish Eyes pops
2 of 4 pop bumpers rebuilt on Spanish Eyes. Thought I would finish all four tonight but no dice.
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Tumbler bounty
Always a treat to see gleaming metal come out of the tumbler when what i put it was very very very grimy and sad. Still waiting on some parts for the pop bumper rebuild but my plan is to rebuild the flippers and start repopulating the game over the weekend.
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Space Mission: Before and After Restoration
I’ve been chomping at the bit to post a “before and after” series for this machine, but i wanted to wait till i had it completely finished. I worked on this restore for about 6 months (including cure time for the clear coat). Electro mechanical pinball purists will hate some of what i did, but…
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Spanish Eyes: playfield touch ups
Made some progress cleaning up and doing touch ups. Still need to do some of the black lines.
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Shooter rebuild
Space Mission shooter assembly cleaned and polished. New sleeve and springs too. Works great now.
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Space Mission, (mostly) complete!
I pulled a few marathon sessions out in the garage this weekend and got Space Mission all back together again. It is so freaking beautiful. I rebuilt the pop bumpers and flippers and cleaned and changed coil sleeves for all other mechs. I added lights to the eject holes and repopulated the playfield. There are…
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Repopulating Space Mission
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EM work
Pushing hard to get Space Mission finished this weekend and organizing parts for Spanish Eyes. Working on EMs is fun.
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Space Mission playfield restoration complete
Last night I finished buffing and polishing the Space Mission. It had been two months since sanding and doing a medium cut buff, which was more than a month after the last round of clear was applied. I was hoping that waiting longer for the clear to cure and using a better tool would give…