Tag: space mission
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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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A full day’s work
I took a day off today and mostly worked on the machines. It was fun and very productive. Painted lots and lots of stuff for Big Guns, mostly cabinet related. Regrained, buffed, and polished lots of metal for Space Mission, and some for Big Guns. Painted the blue metal arc for Space Mission and unfortunately…
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Yet more playfield prep
Yesterday I decided that with all the touch ups I did, I really need to seal the playfield. I figured out what my approach is going to be, but i needed to strip down the rest of the playfield so it is completely bare. So every switch and pin that protruded from the playfield was…
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Final round of touch-ups
Touched up black and the darker turquoise in some if the worst areas, and black around all of the inserts. I attempted a few spots with yellow but it’s just too difficult to match the faded and weathered tone, so I decided to not press my luck.
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Touched up some red paint
Spent some time carefully touching up some of the worst wear spots on Space Mission. Red was standing out the worst so I started in some hidden spots and kept going. I should be using an airbrush but my experience as a painter helps me out. It’s not like I can make this playfield worse!…
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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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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…