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Magic Eraser Ball Swirl Removal
shardian:
What pinball is it? Older ones are much simpler than newer ones.
Anyways, you only remove the stuff from the top of the playfield. All that complicated stuff on the bottom stays right where it is.
shardian:
Magic eraser didn't do crap on the GI white areas of my pin. I gave up quickly there to keep from doing exactly what you did Jim.
grbgemen:
--- Quote from: shardian on November 12, 2008, 08:19:46 am ---What pinball is it? Older ones are much simpler than newer ones.
Anyways, you only remove the stuff from the top of the play field. All that complicated stuff on the bottom stays right where it is.
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Gottlieb Sinbad
--- Quote from: pinballjim on November 12, 2008, 10:05:49 am ---Magic Eraser either has amazing results or doesn't do much, in my experience. If you're working on a white area, I'd recommend having a lot of natural light in the room. I burned through to the white under layer and didn't realize it in a couple of spots.
The grime will return to the cracks if you do not clear, and you will have to grind it out again. This process may take years of heavy use... who knows?
Wax will protect the play field fine, though.
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it worked wonderful on the small area that i did. there was a little bit of black that i did and after it removed all the dirt from the ball swirls, it left me with little white cracks. nothing a touch up wouldnt fix i dont think.
ive read a few different guides and they all basically say the same thing. clear coat will protect all the touch ups and prevent wear but its not completely necessary. at the same time, they say for home use, you would be fine with a nice coat of wax and a new ball. of course you would need to wax it every so often.
im kind of on the fence at this point. maybe i will just start working on it and see how i feel once i get to the stage of clear coat.
shardian:
A Sinbad? You might as well join the current system1 restore trend. Stripping down the playfield isn't too bad. The only part that really gave me any trouble was the pop bumper light leads. They are too short, and not easily accessible. I'll be extending the leads on mine to make my reassemble life easier.
grbgemen:
so ive got almost everything off and i cannot figure out how to get the pop bumpers off. i see the leads you are talking about but how do i disconnect them? are they just on really tight? :dunno
also the metal rails at the top of the playfield and the two behind the flippers.
and the flippers themselves. i saw some screws on the bottom.
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