Such Thing As A Semi-Shop?

[FrizzleFried]

Alight...stupid question likely,  but I have a Spy Hunter that needs to be shopped.  I have the rubber for it,  but I am working on my Lightning currently and don't want both pins down, etc.  I figure it'll be a month or two before I can get to the Spy Hunter.   Would it be beneficial to semi-shop it...pull off the glass and spend some time cleaning the exposed playfield,  perhaps wax, etc.... but without removing parts or rubber for now.

[Q*Bert_OP]

Yes you can. If you have some Novus, go ahead and clean the old rubbers where they are for now.

[ark_ader]

My brother works for a truck repair company. 

He can hep you with your Semi.

[ChadTower]

Yes you can. If you have some Novus, go ahead and clean the old rubbers where they are for now.

I've never had good luck on rubbers with novus.  I use Wildcat rubber cleaner there... works great.

Frizz, "shop" is just a word, man.  Anything you do to clean some of the game up is a positive.

[shardian]

Most ops consider wiping easily accesible chunks of playfield with novus a complete shop job. So, technically you ARE doing a full shop! 

[Chris]

When I did my Fan-Tas-Tic, I only removed parts on the playfield down near the front where it was dirtiest and most visible.  For the rest I just removed the rubbers and cleaned and waxed carefully around the posts.  Fortunately, the previous owner had recently replaced the rubbers; I only had to change the worn shooter tip and the flipper rubbers (because he used the wrong color).

So it plays well and looks good, but if I sold it I wouldn't claim it as being "fully shopped".

Besides, over-cleaning can be more destructive than helpful... trying to fix my backglass made it worse, and trying to take out swirl marks damaged the finish.  Sharidan and ChadTower tried to warn me about that but I had to learn the hard way...