Does Capt. Card Divide the DT banks for different lighting of the WOWs? Or do you still have to complete all 16 targets to light all three WOWs? Do the WOWs alternate on and off like the Specials do on HH?

Briefly.

Knock down 16 drops. Wows light for rest of ball.

As soon as you drain all 16 re-set.

Think that is it!

looks killer... keep posting !

Have a new one made.

bgresto.com

Ken

I bought a 1973 Williams Gulfstream a while back and the quality is great. If you put in an order now most likely 3-4 week turnaround for around $250.00 delivered.

I will buy a 1971 Williams Klondike glass from them in about 6 months as well.

Ken

This gets you as far as sealing and protecting.

Let see ya pull the cling wrap ...

What are you saying?!

I am planning to do this but never done it - heard after 48 hours cling film comes off easily?

Here's a pic of my CC BG from bgresto. 2 month process from order placement to delivery. Its a great product but the BG transmits less light than the original. I use cointaker's ultra bright warm white LEDs and that works really well.image-457.jpg

I wasnt trying to be a dick, just durious if the cling wrap would actually come off...

i have tried a couple of spot repairs with triple thick, and that shit is STICKY..

and i would think it may lift off that previously lifting BG paint still...

I've sprayed really badly flaking backglasses with Triple Thick and then put Saran Wrap over it, then layered plywood on top of that. Let it sit for a couple days, and then the cling wrap just peels off. Doesn't bring up anything with. The key is to just let it sit and dry fully.

I've peeled the cling film off after an hour without any problem. Probably best to leave it overnight for safety. I always mask the windows, that comes off much better if left until next day. Triple Thick is weird stuff, how it dries. It is still pliable after it has dried, which it does in about 15 minutes on a warmish day. If I try to remove the masking tape while the TT is still flexible, it tries to peel the TT with it. Next day, when it has fully hardened, the tape comes off leaving perfect edges. After about three days, what looked like a really thick coat pulls back to what looks like a very thin coat. Every key line and colour area in the BG can be clearly seen from the back side. There is one thing I don't like about using cling film and a weight. It is virtually impossible to lay the film on the TT smoothly. It is such awkward stuff to handle, that getting all the wrinkles out is very difficult. This leaves all those wrinkle and edge of the film marks in the Triple Thick. They do get less obvious as the coat pulls back, and they don't appear visible from the front of the glass, but it doesn't look pretty from the back.
Another method I've used, because it dries but is still flexible, is to lay a coat, leave it to dry for ten minutes or so, and then use a wallpaper joint roller to flatten any peeling ink areas that stand proud. It's quite easy to flatten them, and any bowed up areas of ink, back down on to the glass. Once everything is nice & flat, I throw a couple more heavy coats on and let it all dry. It seems to work for me. If you try it, make sure the first coat is no longer sticky before rolling, otherwise the the coat will stick to the roller, lifting the ink with it. I had that happen on my first experiment, so I flattened it back down, let the coat dry a little more, re rolled it. After it had all hardened, I couldn't see it had happened at all.

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I believe pinballrescue will be making repro plastics for CC this year, FYI.

Yep, that's how it goes.
I spoke with Lee of pinballrescue and he couldn't give me a timeframe but did say that they were doing them this year.
They'll be listed as Top Hand plastics I believe.

Repro plastics? That's great news. My High hand needs them badly. Pinball Rescue makes some good quality stuff.
Top hand is the Italian version of Captain card. The USA replay version is High hand.

... Unless the Top hand they are referring to is the Williams version.

Looking good! No mylar protectors around pop bumpers though?

- Tim

I was thinking the same thing having the clear coat, but then thought with it looking so beautiful why take the chance.

Looks fantastic!!!!

Shouldn't the top of drop targets be flush/even with the playfield, in the down position?

I'd asked for HH/CC and he said yes, Top Hand plastics would be made so I'm assuming me knew all 3 are the same.
Plus AFAIK they've only done GTB plastics.

Yeah, I asked too. You would think if they wanted to sell more then they would advertise that these fit all three of the Gottlieb games instead of just the Italian version.

Personally speaking, I've always used bumper mylar protectors on all my games (cleared or not) and would recommend them. I know that there have been past threads on this subject (as well as adhesive vs. non-adhesive)on Pinside and/or RGP, if you wish to look them up and see others' opinions.

Thanks for posting pics of your Captain Card restoration to date. I'm looking forward to seeing more shots when it's all done!

- Tim

That turned out very nice. Can't wait to play it at some point... Or if you ever sell I may just have to pick up another pin from you...

-- Shawn

Damn it Shawn!

Stop buying pins that will simply end up in your storage unit!

Marcus

thumbs up!

they should end up in my storage unit!

--Jeff

http://www.twistedpins.com/products/stencil_kits/?PageIndex=3&ProductID=122

FYI - Twisted pins offers a stencil kit for this pin. Am almost to that stage in my High hand restoration. Just finished up the base coat on the backbox & plan on spattering it tomorrow. Will order the stencils once I sell enough useless crap on Ebay to cover it.
I think that Captain card / High hand has one of the best looking paint schemes in all of pinball.

That a home made paint fix on those drops, or are they aftermarket? Look nice!

nice bump

Did you use the twisted pin stencils?