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I just picked up a Williams High Speed

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ChadTower:

The least I'd do is paint the L brackets black.  That's one of those things that will draw the eye for those who notice it.  This guy is talking about a full playfield restoration.  Why do that and leave a broken head?

Boz:
Thanks for the feedback. If I can get away with putting wood blocks inside and a bit of sanding/painting, I could probably turn it into a weekend project instead of constructing a new back box from scratch.


The more I play it and tinker here and there, the more I find little things that need to be fixed. With the glass installed, it's hard to tell that there's much plastics damage. Today I took the glass off to replace a few burnt playfield lights and found out the plastic is in worse shape than I thought with some of it actually held in place with some kind of superglue.

Another thing I found, which really surprised me, was how the gameplay actually changed when I rotated a rubber ring on the bottom right where the ball has two lanes to choose from. I just twisted the rubber around so that the highly worn and dirty part was facing away from the playing surface where the pinball would contact it. The unworn and clean part completely changed the randomness of which lane the pinball would select. Needless to say I lost fewer balls this way.

I've order a complete set of plastics, a rubber ring set, a plunger spring, freeway sign decals, and a couple of boxes of #47s (thanks Paul) from Marco.

Question...

Only one other thing is stumping me a bit. Does such a package exist anywhere for the playfield hardware? I'm talking about the white nylon nuts and metal nuts as well as the *correct* screws to mount some of the plastic? There's some generic stuff at Marco, but their cart sucks and I can't see a bigger picture of what's in the package.

Also... I'm still not sure what I should use to clean the non-mylar'd, painted wood with. I'd really like to get the smegma off of the surface.

Paul Olson:
pinballlife has the white nylon nuts, and they carry all or most of the screws you will need (looks like everything). They even have the yellow post rubber if you don't feel like trying to clean yours up.  Use novus #2 to clean the playfield, it will clean and shine the mylar as well. If you have any really dirty parts, try a magic eraser, they work great but don't go crazy, they can sand it down to the wood if you do it too much. The ME will leave a white residue which cleans off easy with novus.

Visitor Q:
I got a friend that is looking for one of these, fun game.

Congrats!

Boz:
Of course, I had to go to eBay to buy the novus you were talking about for $25.00 shipped. Then I see they had smaller bottles on pinballlife for much less.  :banghead: I also bought a few of their LED #47 replacements just to see what they look like. Could be interesting.


On another note, out at http://www.classicplayfields.com/people.html, Jeff Elie is currently working on the art for producing a High Speed playfield repro. With their "frickin laser beam" cutting thing-a-majigs and C&C machines, I should be able to fully restore this pin to factory goodness.

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