Arcade Collecting > Pinball
I finally got a pin...RESTORED AND LOVING IT.
shardian:
Now that my garage is a gameroom, I am getting back on this long, drawn out project. Last time I messed with it, I covered the playfield with a towel and set all the 'baggies' on the towel. When I cleaned it off a few weeks ago, I was pissed to find that the towel left an indented pattern in a few areas. I have serious doubts about the long term durability of water based Polycrlyic!! This thing cured for well over a month initially, and cured an additional month or so before I ever put a towel on it.
Most of it buffed out with polishing compound and the buffing wheel. I don't want to polish anymore though, because I am afraid of taking off any more of the clearcoat. I will go ahead and wax, which is why I haven't started reassembly yet. (Wade is saving me cash-ola by letting me use his wax...if he ever gets it to me.)
I flattened the plastics last week and they look real sharp. The oven method works, but I had to go with 300 degrees to get the plastics to droop.
I also broke down and ordered a Pascal Pi-1 board! My hope is to be reassembled before it gets here from France. I have a whole box full of possible good untested CPU boards, but my test bench power supply crapped out when I tried to test them. I will eventually test them and sell them on ebay to further recoup the cost of the pi-1. Maybe even turn a good profit if enough test out working. ;D
shardian:
Playfield is thoroughly waxed up, pop bumper assemblies all shiny, and all metals polished. Now I suppose I have no more excuses to keep me from reassembly.
A note on polishing metal though...it sucks! I tried multiple cleaners/polishes on the stainless stuff. The ball trough parts were very dirty and dull. I started with a basic cleaning, then Bar Keeper's Friend, then Novus. No matter how much Novus I used, the rag still turned instantly black.
On the next piece I used Bleche White initially, then scrubbed, then started the same process. It didn't go much better.
Finally, I went with what I should have used in the first place - Eagle One Wadding metal polish. Rub the hell out of it with a small piece, then rinse/scrub with terry cloth = smooth, shiny finish. A second pass yielded a more mirror finish. I'm sure if I did 4 passes or so on each piece, I would have been using them as a mirror to shave. Alas, that kind of perfection is a waste of effort on this specific machine.
So use this as a lesson, young Padawan learners: Go straight to the Eagle One Wadding to polish metal pieces.
shardian:
A question for the peanut gallery:
The drop targets need to be redone. They originally had an explosion looking graphic. The red 5-bank had silver ink, and the white 3-bank had green paint. I brought a target to work today to scan and make stickers or stencils, then noticed the image was stamped and recessed. Interesting...
Anyways, as a test I filled in the recess with permanent black ink. I'm considering being lazy and just doing black. What would you do:
1. Go ahead and make stickers
2. fill them in black and be done
3. Hunt down fine tipped paint markers that match original
Cyberflexx:
That thing really does look NICE.. It does look better in person.. You did an AWESOME job on it.. :applaud:
shardian:
--- Quote from: Cyberflexx on March 09, 2009, 03:26:39 pm ---That thing really does look NICE.. It does look better in person.. You did an AWESOME job on it.. :applaud:
--- End quote ---
Thanks! I have stared for so long at all the flaws, that it is hard for me to appreciate the overall improvements.
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