I wanted to post pictures of my first complete no expense spared restoration on my Indy Jones machine. I am starting by stripping the entire playfield and sending off to HSA for stage 2 and cc, after that the cabinet is getting completely stripped sanded, painted and new very expensive decals added. All the metal parts are going to Mike Chesnut for brass plating, look at HEP IJ Gold over the top thats the look I am going for. I am going to post pictures of my restoration because I am waiting on Mike Chesnut for plating, and HSA for the playfield that wont be back until december. I picked up a TZ on friday that I brought home and thought I will just clean the playfield and shop it which ended up in 1,000 pieces doing the same restoration. So while i wait on the poly to dry on my TZ cabinet I thought I would post some pics, again please be nice as this is my first complete restoration My bulldog says goodbye to my playfield after being stripped he is sa to see it go I told him it would be back

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next is on to the cabinet I know this one isnt that faded but this one is going to be perfect (atleast thats wat I am going for. The inside of this cabinet is terrible, I wanted a new cabinet from DH but I thought why not try this one yourself it can't be that hard.......80 hours later I should have bought a new one but it will do pics before and after

next is on to the cabinet I know this one isnt that faded but this one is going to be perfect (atleast thats wat I am going for. The inside of this cabinet is terrible, I wanted a new cabinet from DH but I thought why not try this one yourself it can't be that hard.......80 hours later I should have bought a new one but it will do pics before and after

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Sanding, sanding, and sanding............

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That sucked next on to apply the decals which I am applying with Rapid Tac, hope I don't mess up $600 decals .........

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Next I have to trim decals or all is lost if I mess this up it will look terrible, $4,000 in parts I hope this works.....the last picture is funny because my wife said its finally up on blocks !

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Some pictures of the inside of cabinet remember how dirty it was ? its much better now all harnesses scrubbed, and new ground braid, leg plates, misc installed

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Now just waiting on brass plated parts from Mike, side rails, lockdown bar, coin door, gun, playfield glass channel, high polished legs, backglass channel, playfield ramps, bolts etc. I will post pics of the completed cabinet and then some more waiting for the playfield hopefully I will get everything back together or I will have an $8,000 piece of furniture !

My three games are IJ, TZ, Roadshow, the cabinet is to far gone for roadshow so just ordered a new one from DH. I will post pics of my roadshow when done I actually polished every ball guide and playfield bracket to a mirror finish on roadshow looks great. Since I only have room for three games in my gameroom-bar these are the three I wanted and they need to look better than new, it just turned out to be more expensive that I thought

Pics of my new TZ I just picked up 3 days ago .... I think I might have some mental problems it was a nice game with minor fading. Oh well it will look great as well doing a chrome theme will new playfield this one isn't going to be cheap either

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Pics of roadshow polished ball guides waiting on new cabinet cant tear this one apart yet its the only functional game I have right now. I know the rules suck, the art sucks, the music sucks, but I don't care I love this game always keeps me coming back to play and get super payday its great

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TZ is not a sample it has the stars at the top of the head thinking of going proto with it since playfield is changing mirco has the repro with 3rd mag, no flip here, and green lock not sure yet though

There seems to be alot more collectors in Ohio that I thought maybe that's why games are almost impossible to find

Just picked up this Twilight zone in good condition needed shopped and the GI was hacked a little for $3300 from an operator, he also has a few nice STTNG machines there as well, plenty of operators here in NE ohio that have pins in a warehouse

Got my parts in from Mike chesnut yesterdy for TZ and Indy here are so update photos. Also all ramps, apron, diverter, and misc and the plafyield was plated as well just waiting on HSA for the playfield. This is the first time I have had parts done by Mike and its well worth it the finish is awesome maybe a little to nice I won't want to get it dirty. The gun will be detailed in black with powder a little later but it looks great in brass just needs the handles black to set it off.

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and some more...

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Tz i just waiting on round braid from marcos so i can finish the cabinet, assembling the playfield this weekend should have all the parts tommorow. good luck on your IJ cleland post some pics when your done with yours

Great work on the TZ I bought the stapler from pinrestore did my Indy cabinet with it works great. Looking forward to getting mine done this week I have never even played Twilight Zone so I am really anxious to get it don. By the way where did you get the lenc smith and accepted decals for the inside of the cabinet ?

Actually that is a plated metal piece made by Mike Chesnut, also the translite trim is metal made by Mike. I think it is a neccessity to have if you are going with chrome or brass full trim.

let me know if you have that info, also how did you do the serial numbers I want to remake the decals for the back and inside of cabinet some how not sure how to go about this. Also noticed on you Twilight Zone there was no coil wrappers on the flippers, Buy the coil wrapper kit from planetary pinball if you are doing a full playfield dissasemble harnesses, and machinery it really gives it that finished touch. I will post pictures of my TZ I am doing today

I love to do these restorations as a hobby but not so sure what to do when these get done only have room for 3, my 11 year old wants a funhouse to restore for his room so I might help him do one.

Not sure have not got the bill yet its coming with the rest of the parts next week. coin door, hinges, legs, side rails, translite channels, are all new, only thing old is LD bar, gun and bolts.

more pin porn pictures. all the ramps for the playfield

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and more pf parts

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check out my other thread on my TZ http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/tz-full-restoration-in-20-days