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A way to clean paint off of plastics? *SUCESS!!*
Keroppi:
The paint is on the front of the backglass. It will come off no problem. The "wreck" he is talking about is the flaking of the silkscreen on the back. The flaking is not in a lighted area; paint will fix that up no problem. If you call that trash, send all your "trash" to me, because that is an easily fixable backglass :dunno
...the plastics, on the other hand, may make this machine due for a theme change...
RayB:
Crazy. The original images are just cartoon bikini women...
http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?any=gulf+stream&search=Search+Database&searchtype=quick#1094
Mauzy:
--- Quote from: Keroppi on June 04, 2008, 11:15:28 pm ---The paint is on the front of the backglass. It will come off no problem. The "wreck" he is talking about is the flaking of the silkscreen on the back. The flaking is not in a lighted area; paint will fix that up no problem. If you call that trash, send all your "trash" to me, because that is an easily fixable backglass :dunno
...the plastics, on the other hand, may make this machine due for a theme change...
--- End quote ---
Yeah, For some reason i was thinking of how bad a repair on that would look if it was a lighted section. :dunno Dunno why i thought a cloud would be lit...
I spent 8 hours in a hot school building yesterday. Fumes mustve got me a bit.
Keroppi:
All hail the mighty testors enamel thinner: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy:
...it cleaned the plastics off without causing any further damage; as well as I could ask of any product:
...unfortunately, th paint/nailpolish/whatever the guy used melted/damaged the finish, so in the right light you can still clearly see where the paint was. At least they are presentable now, and under the glass, I don't think it'll be noticeable at all, because the glass will reflect that "right light" instead:
...a large number of "after" pictures have been added to the album: http://s216.photobucket.com/albums/cc272/Keroppi_667/Gulfstream/ ...it might not look like it, but between the cleaning and a ful novus treatment, it took me over 3 hours to go those plastics back in shape. They have a couple touch-ups to do (that the paint was hiding)...I had such luck on the plastics that I decided to start on the playfield. Never before has "stripping" meant so many things at once here, now she's been stipped to what looks like a nighty ;D:
...just to clarify how much of a tool this guy was, I found a STAPLE in the playfield by the girl's knee. Meaning he obviously tried to staple something over her "naughty parts" before resorting to painting over the sinful bikini:
...I stopped here, to give the playfield a break. I'm sure the thinner isn't nice on the original paint, and I want to damage it as little as possible. It may never come fully clean, I am going to investigate other options to clean off the rest. At least at this point, It is clear enough to get the lines and colors for a re-paint. I am still on the fence as to whether or not to restore the machine, or entirely re-theme it. After a little more work and a tough decision, I will update the thread; should it be moved to either restorations or project announcements, or left here since it's a pinball machine?
...on another note, if I restore, there is a huge issue with the apron to deal with. There is a distributor/op logo that I have no idea how to remove. It almost looks silk'd right onto the apron :o :
...any suggestions/opinions?
Mauzy:
Wow. Good to see that worked so well! Have you tried it on the backglass yet?
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