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pbj:
What finally got rid of smoke smell on one of my machines was taking out the mechanisms and pcbs and cleaning them, and replacing all the light bulbs. That stuff will look clean and pbj will be ---fracking--- if he throws away a working light bulb, but it all heats up and the smell comes back until you replace it or very thoroughly clean them. If you find yourself hand cleaning 150 tiny light bulbs, it may be time to reconsider life. Just put them in a plastic bag and pretend you're gonna use them some day.
This stuff also helped a lot. I just soaked the inside of the cabinets with it:
https://zep.com/products/smoke-odor-eliminator-zusoe16
I have also heard that steam cleaners can be used on the wiring. I've never taken it that far. Those still have some lingering stank but you don't notice it until you've got the playfield up and you're next to it.
bobbyb13:
I WILL be looking up the Zep stuff.
The beauty of this abomination is that the coffin would have harbored the most pungent of fumes and the original was so termite chewed and UV roasted that it may become a planter now that I have made a sexy replacement.
Preservationists turn your heads, but I was going to outlive this fetid OG Bally box already so out it goes.
The backbox doesn't smell like a two pack a day lung but dammed if paint would stick to it.
I may just build a new one of those too if I live long enough.
Never would've considered the noxious bulb film either pbj but boy doesn't that make sense.
Wonderful part is that I ordered a few boxes of LED things from the Gearuis guy (is that a French chap in China or some Guangdong guy who can't type?!) so I can toss all those incadescent heat pumps and not give a ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.
I am going to toss a few boxes of useless ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- here over the next few weeks.
I spent far too much cheddar on a new playfield for this thing as it is and no way in all that is holy will I be roasting my precious freshly urethaned wood with some crappy old bulbs when I can have new tech that is indistinguishable from the old crap in color tone and is cool as a cucumber.
LEDs FTW!
--- Quote from: pbj on October 29, 2024, 05:38:55 pm ---What finally got rid of smoke smell on one of my machines was taking out the mechanisms and pcbs and cleaning them, and replacing all the light bulbs. That stuff will look clean and pbj will be ---fracking--- if he throws away a working light bulb, but it all heats up and the smell comes back until you replace it or very thoroughly clean them. If you find yourself hand cleaning 150 tiny light bulbs, it may be time to reconsider life. Just put them in a plastic bag and pretend you're gonna use them some day.
This stuff also helped a lot. I just soaked the inside of the cabinets with it:
https://zep.com/products/smoke-odor-eliminator-zusoe16
I have also heard that steam cleaners can be used on the wiring. I've never taken it that far. Those still have some lingering stank but you don't notice it until you've got the playfield up and you're next to it.
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bobbyb13:
With all the stuff that I thought was cool with video machine crap that I built THIS stupid thread gets more views than all my other trash.
Go bots.
And holy crap, did I wind up with a post that doesn't involve dumb aspect ratio twisting?!
Anyway, I have suffered enough that I have a fwe days off of work and it hasn't rained much again recently either so I'm not suffering too much grass torture.
Love getting time to get projects out of my way. NEVER thought that this thing would be running into such a saga of time between work stints.
I had some issue with glue coming off the mask of my stencils but after working through practically every solvent I had in the shop I arrived at naptha or mineral spirits being good to get the glue off and not solubilize my lovely stencil work.
I also bought a fresh loop of ground braid and decided that if I was going this deep I might as well replace all the screws too and make the rest of it prettier than it was when I got it.
The only part that really freaked me out about getting all this stuff back into the coffin was making sure that the plunger was going to line up with the shooter lane properly.
I did need to bore out the diamond shaped hole the plunger mounts through to get it good but I think it will be fine once I get the playfield stuff all swapped over.
I took the time to clean up the harness and I only really need to repin the connectors and reseat a few wires that someone had bypassed previously (why I still haven't sorted out actually.)
Once I had all of that back together and succeeded in getting the coind door seated and swinging nicely I figured it was time to drop the backbox on it and see if those holes lined up too.
Seems to be coming together finally.
With all the crap I have ordered for this thing already you would think I could've remembered to get some cabinet protectors and new leg bolts.
Lord knows I'm missing other stuff that I will only remember the day after I order some more bits and get porked for some more Djibouti level shipping costs.
Ah... if pinball machines could sink then they would have the same all encompassing neuroses inducing vibe as boats.
Mike A:
The best pinball machine is the one your friend owns.
Just like boats.
Hehe.
Nice work so far.
pbj:
Any original parts going to be left in this thing? :lol
Beautiful work. There is an actually fun game on the other side of this, I promise.
:cheers:
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