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londonbabe:

I tried both kinds of wire brush, but the first sort I found more effective at getting into the corners, so I stuck with it.

Edit: changed the pictures so you can actually see how the legs turned out. The last one is obviously the before!

RandyT:


I picked up a High-Speed pinball a little while ago and the legs were in really bad shape from living in the guy's barn for so long.

I went to work on them with a wire brush (like the first one in the above post) attached to a horizontal buffer / grinder.  Took the rust right off (even the heavy stuff) and after about a half hour of worth of work, they looked almost new.  The only thing I would recommend is a good cleaning afterward and a coat of clear, rust resistant paint (or powder coating).  Once you strip all that rust (and surface metals) from the legs, they will want to start rusting again.

You might also look into some "faux chrome" powder coat.  It's amazing what they can do with that stuff nowadays and it will be cheaper than chrome.

RandyT

Level42:

Hey Londonbabe, HOLY SH*T ! FANTASTIC !!!!

Those legs look TIGHT !!!

May I ask where you got the new end-rubbers ?

When I compare your cocktail to mine, your legs looked actualy even worse then mine. The "woodwork" and metal casing look a lot better on yours though. What did you do to fix the black metal so tightly ?

Looks yours had a broken glass ? My glass is still intact, but the paint has come off on several spots, and are still coming off. What would be best, cleaning all the old paint and re-paint or touching up the old paint ?
How did you paint the glass ?

.......sorry for all those questions ;)  Anyway, very well done restoration  :notworthy:

Randy: Yes the powdercoating "chrome" looks great. I once got a PM from a guy here who has a powder coating company....take a look here at what he did with some pinball legs:
http://www.powderperfect.com/example.asp

But I sure do like the look of Londonbabe's legs too (that's his cocktail legs  :laugh2: :laugh2:)


londonbabe:

To be honest I liberated the end rubbers from a desk at work! (pulled them out of the side that was against the wall ::))

With the black, there was some rust taking hold on some parts such as the door hinges, so that got the wire brush but mostly very light rust that I took off with sandpaper. I used coarse sandpaper to key up the black finish, and sprayed it all with a couple of coats of satin black. Buy a large can.

Replacement glass was

Level42:


--- Quote from: londonbabe on August 03, 2006, 07:35:56 pm ---To be honest I liberated the end rubbers from a desk at work! (pulled them out of the side that was against the wall ::))
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Whahahahaha shhhh....any spare desks left ? ;) ;) Guess, they should be available here then, standard stuff....
 

--- Quote from: londonbabe on August 03, 2006, 07:35:56 pm ---With the black, there was some rust taking hold on some parts such as the door hinges, so that got the wire brush but mostly very light rust that I took off with sandpaper. I used coarse sandpaper to key up the black finish, and sprayed it all with a couple of coats of satin black. Buy a large can.
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Wouldn't have guessed you'd done that with a can, nice job !


--- Quote from: londonbabe on August 03, 2006, 07:35:56 pm ---Replacement glass was
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