Tag: pinball
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Alcohol and magic eraser
With previous playfields I haven’t found much success with this method, but it sure worked on Space Mission. It pulled up tons of metal filing dust that was hanging out in the cracks where the board is planking. Very excited. As you can see, there is so much wear around the super bonus advance and…
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Cleaning the Space Mission playfield
Tonight I thoroughly cleaned the Space Mission playfield with naphtha and a microfiber towel. This playfield has a lot of wear. Clearly the previous owner played with a pitted rusty ball for many years and there was very little wax to clean up so it has been unprotected for a long time. I’m not sure…
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Broken spinner, faulty lamp, more wood filler
Stepped up to Surf Champ to find that the spinner was broken, which probably happened when my littlest son was playing earlier today. I tried to reattach with epoxy, but I’m not hopeful. That spinner gets pounded. I’m going to look this up on Pinside tomorrow and see what my options are. While I had…
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Tumbling the hardware from Space Mission
Sunday night I threw all of the hardware from the top side of Space Mission into the vibrating tumbler. Tonight it was time to pull them out. The results from this process always amaze me. Many of the posts were black with grime and metal filing dust when I put them in and after two…
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Added some light feature mods to Blackout
Lighted flipper buttons: replaced the white buttons with transparent red flipper buttons and added red flex head LEDs tied into the coin door lights to make them glow. I used speaker wire to run it as cleanly as possible and I’m happy with how it turned out. Eject hole: also replaced the white eject hole…
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My Space Mission begins
New project: Williams Space Mission, 1976. It was working when I picked it up but now it won’t start a game. Needs a full cleaning too. Was really hoping to play a bit tonight but it’s not gonna happen.
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Shooter looking good
Mirror polish because I can.
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Coin door teardown
Dismantled the coin door on Big Guns, finally hitting rock bottom on this rehab project. There’s nothing left to take apart!
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Surf Champ – before & after photos
A couple of months ago I bought a 1976 Gottlieb “Surf Champ” pinball machine out of a basement where it had been the last 20 or so years. I completely stripped down the top side of the playfield and cleaned all parts. Metal went in the tumbler. I replaced the plastics, cleaned the star posts,…