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Gameplan Sharpshooter-Roger takes the Girls to the Beauty Shop-update 9/20
TopJimmyCooks:
Top rail ball gate or flap? small red diamond lane divider? pearly white nylon acorn nuts? all my solenoid assemblies are pretty nice. If you have any of these I'm happy to pony up.
TopJimmyCooks:
Appreciate you looking. I've pretty much got everything. somebody on rgp asked so I'm planning on finally finishing the plastics scans and making some boomerangs this weekend. I've been distracted with the Tommy but I went down and sanded the PF in prep for hopefully the last coat of clear. I had to go back to the superglue for the canyons around the inserts. Filling them with varathene- it either sank in or never cured properly so it dug out during sanding even after a week or two of cure.
I sanded all the black out of the shooter lane and it was so light I had to go back and stain the wood to match the rest of the PF. Hopefully that turns out.
TopJimmyCooks:
Had a bit of a setback on the clearcoat. I did some more aggressive sanding to try to level out a few areas. Then I put a heavy coat of Varathane on. Upon drying, I found that I had missed some spots sanding wise and also had cleared over some random sanding scratches that were highlighted by the new clear.
I was somewhat down on the project and walked away for a while. Even in that state I could call it done and these things wouldn't be noticed by 99% of players, the PF is way better than when i got it. I decided I wanted to redo it. I went and got a nice bosch random orbit sander - my old one was crapped out and I had been sanding everything with a quarter sheet finish sander so far. The ROS with 220 did a great job of cutting down all the nasty stuff. I was fortunate in that I didn't sand through the clear into any touchups except a few late black spots that I can recreate in a minute or two. I'm glad I went backwards at this point. Looking forward to sanding back up to 600 and laying another coat-probably the last. The heat's broken a little around here so hopefully more progress soon.
TopJimmyCooks:
Plastic scans are available. PM me your email if you want them. off to the shop to see about a boomerang. That is all.
TopJimmyCooks:
The low end pin man must sometimes fabricate a part from cobwebs, carpet remnants and compacted sawdust found in the corners of the shop. Case in point: The always busted arch shaped plastic guide for the rollover switch lane on Sharpshooter. Since this is a Low End demand item and is sometimes used as an obscure form of currency in certain pinball backwaters, decided to mint a few of them.
Scanned the original and went to CorelDraw (no fancy boy AI for the LEP man) and extrapolated the missing area. A complete boomerang hasn't been sighted since 1982 or so, so I dare you to prove me wrong. I made it a little bit longer than it probably was so it can be sanded to size if adjustment is needed.
Made a wood pattern from the paper. Rough cut on the bandsaw then sanded to the line.
Attached the wood pattern to a board and set it up to allow clamping of the plexi off to the side. no room to clamp the workpiece itself on this small part. that liquid on the piece is the sweat off the LEP Man's brow. Don't worry, I cleaned these with naptha.
Rough Routed piece. Had to carefully select the last part routed since it is no longer clamped during the final cut.
After sanding the edges up to 800 grit, laying out and drilling the holes with a sharp bit, these are ready to go.
One is for me, One's promised to PBJ, one's for anyone who needs it. If you want to best match the original you can add a decal for the part number and breath 32 years of nicotine on it.
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