Having just completed a clean up and preservation of a 1975 Spin Out. It's time to start a new project.

Unlike my previous project, this Mustang is in a lot better starting condition. I hope to have to do very little touchups in comparison. I would also say the backglass is a solid 9/10. There is some small bubbling and a small flake in the upper left window of the Saloon and a small crease in one of the cowboys pants (had to really look to find this).

The front of the cabinet has some heavier scratches but there are very few else where.

There is the typical wear by the kick outs on the playfield. The worst part of the playfield is it is dirty and has deep ball swirls. I hope that a good cleaning brings the playfield back into shape.

The plan is to verify that the game plays generally as it should before disassembly. I have had it powered on and most of the playfield worked so hopefully only a couple hours to get this done. I will clear coat the playfield as I did on the previous project. If I have to level inserts they will be removed, levelled and reinstalled. The backglass will get coated with triple thick with hopefully no touchups. I will touchup the cabinet as required. It's too nice to repaint. And, I will take more pictures!

So far I have ordered the bulk of the parts required to rebuild the pop bumpers and replace the lane guides etc. I've learned from the previous restore that there will always be more parts required

Enough chatter, on with the pictures.

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RWH, for sure. I would take this as a starting point any day of the week!

So I had some time tonight to do a quick evaluation electronically and mechanically on the machine. So far this is what I have to deal with.

Clean the player unit
Weak left hand flipper
Hum (not too loud but more so than the other 2 games)
Ball doesn't always make it into the shooter lane
Never seems to game over
I thought I saw both score reals score at the same time (pretty sure)
Player 1 score real looks "sticky"

Need to figure out the Bonus 3000 object of the game. There are 2 sets of of 3 lights on each side that lead to a kickout hole. Hitting the drop targets lights up each of the 3 lights but it seams sometimes it is the right hand side sometimes the left. I'm not sure of the rules for this so if someone knows let me know!

Seems like it is a fun game. All in all I don't think too much is wrong so far.

Anyone happen to have a schematic for this machine? I will order one but I want to look through a couple things a soon as I can.

Thanks

Got the player unit cleaned up as well as the match unit. Incredible how gunked up the player unit was. Someone must have sprayed lubricant or something on it during it's life.

I was able to play a couple one player games from ball 1 through 5 including game over. So far this is working as I would expect. The match unit also works now and I can see how it interacts with the playfield.

Add to my list is clean the credit unit. It's sticky for sure. Good thing about EM's after the first game or two, things just start working again.

Going to continue to work through the list until I am at the point I am satisfied that things more or less work as designed then I will start the clean up.

Got flipper working right. EOS switch was way out of shape. Also got the ball coming out into the shooter lane properly. Worked a bit on the credit unit, its a lot better but I'm going to have to completely remove it to thoroughly clean. Will probably wait at this point until I start cleaning and working on the back box.

Played a couple 2 player games and everything seems to work that I can see. I think at this point I'm happy enough with it mechanically that I will start the teardown. I will go through everything more thoroughly in this process.

Seems to be a fun game.

Starting the playfield cleanup. Couple pics of some elbow grease and magic eraser. You can see the white coming back on the top section of numbers in the pics. I plan on re-clearing so I try to go to the point that I'm just about to go through the old clear and then I stop (some spots don't require as much cleaning).

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I plan on stripping the playfield clean, I did that on the last pinball as well.

I have all new bumper parts, lane guides bought already. Need to get a few extra pieces but I'm waiting to see if something else looks like it should be replaced.

Trying to take a few more pictures than I did on my last project. Pop bumpers all removed and a magic eraser cleanup. I am going to have to order new leaf switch assemblies for the pop bumpers. For whatever reason, except for one, they basically fell apart. Cleaning the contact on one switch and it fell right off. On the other unit a leaf broke right off with no force. They disintegrated! Better now than when reassembled.

The pop bumpers assemblies and coils were so dirty I am positive they helped make the play field ball marks as bad as they were.

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Using spot putty to fill the deep spots on the playfield. No point in painting when there is wear through into the wood. Once they have been sanded down I will put an off white primer down before any colour matching.

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Stashyboy,

The rod and ring assemblies look good and tight. Were as the ones on my Spin Out, I had to replace. Funny thing is these ones where so much more dirtier.

Starting on the touch ups

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Hi Stashyboy,

Nope, just the wear spot.

I'm using acrylic paints. And will clear coat the playfield once all touch ups are complete.

It's Bondo brand glazing putty.

Touchups done. Levelling of the inserts. Just need another can of Varathane, and some time, and I will be ready to clear the playfield. I need to get a part order into PBR, so it can be shipping while I'm waiting for the clear to dry. Last time I waited 2 weeks after the last coat before final sand. I am planning the same this time.

Finally warmed up enough I could get the clear coats done. Now the hard part, waiting the 2 weeks for it to cure before I can sand it out. I'm attaching a close-up to show how the colours seem to pop more after the clear.

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Clear sanded out and starting to reassemble. Waiting 2-3 weeks to make sure that the clear dries is a killer. Might brave automotive clears one day. Photo not too great, I'll get better ones up soon as the room brightens up

Hopefully updates will come more frequently now.

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Started work on the back box. Backglass out finally (was stuck). Very good shape, some small touch-ups will be required. Will carefully wipe off and then triple thick it.

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Backglass touchup and preservation done. Nice box of parts arrived mid week. Lots to do now!

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Got time today to install the new bumpers. I haven't turned on the machine in a couple months and now I have a problem. With the ball out of the machine I can reset the machine and it starts normal. With the ball in the machine in the drain. The machine continuously counts 1000's. Also on reset the 5000 light is always on.Both these are new issues so something must have gotten tweaked while apart. I don't have a schematic so it's hard to track down. Anyone with a Mustang schematic?