United Manufacturing Co - Playboy Shuffle-Targette restore

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AlienInferno:
Haven't done anything with this since November. I am planning on getting this finished by May 21st. So expect some updates in the next week or so.

One of the things I did manage to do is buy a missing part for it last week. A very important missing part. Chris at St. Louis Ball Bowlers came across some COMPLETE United coin units. I need to clean it up and figure out what to do about the lock but I'm happy I have a complete machine now.

AlienInferno:
Hello BYOAC! Anyone remember me. Lol.

It's been a few years since I've posted about this. If anyone was interested yes I am still working on getting this restored. Since my last couple of posts I've got this sanded and mostly primed. Then I've had a baby, had a house built, and bought a bigger truck. Needed a back seat for the little one. Started working on this again a few months back and found that the masking tape was dried out and stuck to the bare wood that I had masked off. Got that all scraped off but it's going to need a good sanding to fully get rid of the tape glue. I also got the backbox light area painted. I just recently acquired a vibratory tumbler and have started tumbling the metal bits that could fit to remove rust.

So as it stands my plans are this.

1. Sand the areas that had the masking tape stuck to it to remove old gummy tape glue.
2. Stain and clearcoat the natural wood areas.
3. Mask off and prime the remaining pieces that need primed.
4. Paint the blue coat.
5. Paint the gold stenciled art.
6. Clean the metal bits of rust
7. Reassemble.
8. Play the hell out of it.

1 and 2 will happen as soon as I get a nice weekend to work on it. 3 and 4 depend on weather and drying times. 5 I can do inside. 6 will be slow but I'll be working on it starting today.

AlienInferno:
It's been 6 years since I got this machine. 6 YEARS!!! I've finally getting some decent time to work on this, barring weather, and managed to get on some color. Hallelujah! I'm ready to get this done.

It's a latex paint. Some people believe it's blasphemous to use latex on a restore. I'm ok with it in this instance. It was a HGTV home/Sherwin William's paint from Lowes. Capri was the color. It was an almost perfect match to some of the unfaded color I found inside the machine. Thinned with water and sprayed with a HVLP.

Once I get all this blue paint on and the gold stenciling on top it will be an almost playable machine.

**NOTE**
I kept getting an error when trying to attach pics through here so had to do it through imgur.

Mike A:
It will be nice to see one of those old machines back in service.

AlienInferno:
Basically done with the painting. Have a couple touch ups in the blue where the paint peeled off but easy fixes. Made the stencils a couple weeks ago. And painted them today. Funny note. 5 minutes after taking that pic my 4yo daughter found a screw somewhere and scratched the main body of the gold rocket. Yeah me. Have it in my so called game room for final assembly. It still has a ways to go before it's done though. Want to polish up a lot of the metal pieces first, have to glue the numbered inserts back in, replace a couple score reels, fix the bell, etc.

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