(Topic ID: 54862)
Rockwall, TX
Thanks Marcus,I've been sharing these on FB and saw you are a friend of Chris Munson!!! He's an awesome guy!!!
Thanks guys, I got two games to make one. they prolly should have been parted out but my friend Max and i talked about trying to bring one back to life. After we got it up and working, we started the restore process. Max has all the wood sanded down and stained and it looks excellent. He has a wood shop behind his house and has all the tools for sanding, buffing, polishing, bead blasting, etc.
Max does all the soldering, I just hold the wires in place. I suck at soldering, lol.... and I did all the cab and head repair. Bondo on the big holes, wood glue on the busted wood, spackle on the scratches, etc.
Steve, I went to Texas Art Supply and bought a 12 foot by 4 foot roll of mylar( used it on Globetrotter game). I staple the mylar ( cut to fit) over the cab and take a this marks a lot and trace out the first color. since this had multiple colors, I shot green as the base, then made a tan one, then a white one, a blue one and a black one. After I trace the color out I find a place to take an exacto knife and cut out the color that will be shot. We have hard countertops at work( i'm a lab tech and do this on night shift) so I have plenty of room. i've tried the wood burning iron, other cutters, but for me, the exacto is the way to go. After i got my templates cut, I sanded and repaired the cab. I taped what I wanted off, shot the green first. Then i sprayed tacky glue on the back of the tan template, set it in place and shot the tan paint. i shot two coats rather quickly, waited about 5 to 10 minutes and pulled the template up. i stapled the template to the wall to save for the other side. i shot all the colors this way, flipped the cabinet and used the same template on the other side. the paint side of the template was dried, so I sprayed a lite coat of tacky spray on it and laid it down. i only try to used the tacky spray on the edges that need to be held down of the cut area, i do not spray the whole template. After i am done and the templates are dry, i put wax paper between the templates and roll them up. i can either try them on the next game i have or give them to someone else to try.
hope that helps.
Steve, I think the tacky spray is similar, but I'll get the name tomorrow. I'll take a vid of it when we get it done. I am putting all the cab wiring back in over the next few days. Had to do other chores so only got an hour in today.
Wow,that is some great work there.I always loved those old baseball games and always have my eyes peeled for one.Good to see someone digging in and saving one.Don't scrap the other one unless there is just no chance of saving it.Excellent work on the cabinet stencils,those are not easy to do.I just did a United Steeplechase the same way you did and had some trouble with the paint working it's way under the stencil edges,even with the spray tack.I think the thinner in the spray paint I used broke down the glue.Turned out ok anyways.I had trouble with the long slow curves.Hard to free hand them in both the tracing and the cutting.Should have tried using a flexible curve they have at art shops.Now I have to start on the playfield.The old machines like these are the really rewarding ones to spend the time on.Can't wait to see more pics of your machine as you work on it!It's beautiful!
Quoted from jukehero1:Can't wait to see more pics of your machine as you work on it!It's beautiful!
Ditto. Is that a Blackout I saw in your pic? Nice. 
By the way Zooman,what did you use to get all those layers of crud paint off to get to the original cabinet artwork?That has some amazing original cabinet artwork.Why someone would ever feel the need to paint over it is a mystery to me.
Quoted from jukehero1:Yes,Balpers...Excellent eyes,it is a Blackout!Just finished doing the artwork touchups and clearcoating the playfield.
Thanks! As a Blackout owner myself, I recognized that front cabinet artwork.
Looks like yours is in really great shape. My cabinet and backbox both need a little TLC, but I'll address that sometime in the future. (see my profile).
Thanks for posting the pic!
Sorry I've been gone for a few days guys. Shift work sucks sometimes.
HDC, that's my friend Max's wood shop. It is nice!!!
JukeHero, I used a razor blade, one made for cleaning glass off.
Also, up close, this game does have a few places that bled through, and I may touch them up. That's what I did on the Globetrotter cabinet on a few spots.
I just shot the base coats for the head to this game and the back cover.
Max and I are going to have to make new inserts because the old ones are just too far gone.
As far as the play fields on both the games, one is totally shot( it's de lamenating) and the one for this game we are working on was painted over and pretty worn. I went to the sign shop I use ( made a Kiss custom cabinet for my own personal use that I saw here) and they have made a play field overlay for this game. I know it's not original and we toyed with trying to refurb what we had with that play field, but I don't think it would have turned out right.
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Quoted from zooman:The playfield sanded down and inserts removed
Could you explain a bit about the playfield overlay you had made? Did you scan the playfield and touchup in software, and then the sign shop prints out on... what? Or ?
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