Tag: pinball
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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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Playing pinball is fun!
Got some good time playing pinball with the kids this weekend. S is really getting quite good, if he understood the rules and goals he would be scoring quite well. J LOVES Surf Champ, it’s the machine he plays most. He kept saying “I don’t know why I just love this game.” I know what…
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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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Big Guns, COMPLETE!
I finally finished restoring this Big Guns pinball machine after over a year of effort. When i started I knew very little about pinball restoration and maintenance, and now I know a whole lot more! I wish i had more representative “before” photos, but hopefully some of these give an idea about where this started…
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More Taxi teardown
This afternoon I removed the flippers, slingshots, slingshot switches, and both drop target mechs on Taxi. Labeled all wires using the system I developed working on Big Guns. Still need to remove all three pop bumper mechs. May end up removing all mechs as many have rust and tons of grime on them.
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Sad sad Taxi playfield
A few really terrible areas on the playfield. Not even sure what I’m going to do with this playfield. Clean first and reassess.
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Rotisserie time for Taxi
Got Taxi mostly stripped down and up on the rotisserie. Encountered a ton of broken/stripped hardware that really slowed things down. This playfield is pretty horrible right now. Whoever put the yellow lacquer or varathane on it didn’t remove anything, so all the ball guides and posts are covered with it. I am not planning…
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Big Guns: assembly complete!
Joy of joys. It’s still not working, but it’s very very close – depends on how quickly I can get good advice from Pinside. I have problems with the kicker switches (which I must have gotten wrong) and the right canon switch (which appears to be missing a diode).