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A Little Monkey Business - Bally Safari resto

By Colsond3

2 years ago


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#1 2 years ago

Like many of us, I think I bit off a little more than I could chew starting restorations on three other games while building Halloween. The lesson I’ve learned is...do one game at a time.

With that game and artwork taking much longer than planned, I got back to finishing a pretty cool Bally Safari I snagged when COVID started. Someone stopped by and asked why I hadn’t done a thread on it, so I thought I’d throw one up. I’ll rewind a little bit and post the progress.

The seller wanted to see what I did with it too, so I figured I’d chrono the process so she can come in and take a look.

Here was the game as I bought at home. A complete mess.
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#2 2 years ago

The cabinet was missing any semblance of artwork, in very poor shape. She had stripped the playfield and had planned on restoring it herself, but it sat. Parts were all in boxes.

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#3 2 years ago

She did send me a few shots of the playfield before she had disassembled it.

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#4 2 years ago

This is what the cabinet art is supposed to look like. Simple design.

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#5 2 years ago

Backglass isn’t great. I could use a better one if anybody knows where to snag one, or has one stashed away.

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#6 2 years ago

The plastics were pretty good, but the upper left monkey plastic has a huge chunk out of it.

If anybody knows where to find one or has a lead, I would appreciate it.

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#7 2 years ago

A few more shots, back panel and legs.

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#8 2 years ago

Transformer board and inside cab. Game is filthy.

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#9 2 years ago

Disassembly...

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#10 2 years ago

All of the metal is pretty nasty too, so decided to go with powdercoat. Plus I had an idea for this game for the color scheme.

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#11 2 years ago

Coin door off.

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#12 2 years ago

Playfield cleaned up pretty good before I removed it. Some touchups. Not a great candidate for clearcoat, so it will have to suffice for now.

I’d love to run across a NOS playfield for this. Awesome vibrant colors on this game.

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#13 2 years ago

Coin door disassembled.

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#14 2 years ago

Various other cabinet metal parts removed.

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#15 2 years ago

Tilt mech and other internal cab parts removed.

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#16 2 years ago

Parts for powder

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#17 2 years ago

Light/display panel removed from backbox.

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#18 2 years ago

Front of cabinet was separated a little, so reinforced with nail gun, glue and clamped.

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#20 2 years ago
Quoted from Kaijumke:

This is fun. Please continue.

Nice. Thank for checking in.

More cab and playfield metal stripped for powder.

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#21 2 years ago

Backbox sanded down.

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#22 2 years ago

Remaining hardware removed, sanding finished. Hardware soaked in Evaporust.

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#23 2 years ago

Cabinet was sanded down to bare wood.

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#24 2 years ago

Corners and under coin door were very chopped up, so had to patch with fiberglass resin.

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#25 2 years ago

More patch, now on backbox.

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#26 2 years ago

Corners much better and square. Just needed a little more sanding.

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#28 2 years ago
Quoted from BeachPickle:

Nice work. I think those old Bally Ted Zale designs are massively under rated. I hope to give my surfers the same treatment some day.
Looking forward to seeing it with the powder coat.

Couldn’t agree more. Almost all Zale games are underrated by the masses. You can’t really enjoy and appreciate until you own one.

I’m pretty far along with this one, so I’m really posting going back as if it were in real time, but should have everything posted by tomorrow.

I will say I do games a little differently, put unique touches on them. Not a purist by any standard. Ballypin can confirm.

#29 2 years ago

First coat of primer laid on cab.

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#30 2 years ago

First coat of primer on backbox.

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#31 2 years ago

Second coat of primer on cab, with some black streaks to allow overwork of any raised areas.

I use a nice heavy automotive primer for the second coat. Sanding started.

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#32 2 years ago

This was just a month ago, practically an 8-hour fine-sanding session. Wanted this cabinet to feel like a sheet of glass.

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#33 2 years ago

More sanding...

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#37 2 years ago
Quoted from OLDPINGUY:

Thanks for sharing the detailed pics!
This was my first Pinball!

No shit Art. That’s awesome!! I’ll be curious to see what you think of the finished product. Hope all is well with you man.

I was hitting a bit of a lull regarding pinball, so this project definitely reinspired my passion a bit.

#38 2 years ago

Playfield thrown on the rotisserie, and the last parts stripped from the playfield and stash for powdercoating.

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#40 2 years ago
Quoted from gdonovan:

Should get on that Xenon bro so I can convert the tube chase lamps to LED.
Try a tube shot!

Well you know better than anyone Halloween, Spider-Man, Xenon and Safari were all in the queue.

#42 2 years ago

Parts back from powder. Given the tiger theme, I went with mirror black for the armor and legs, and a few other miscellaneous parts.

Traffic orange for the coin door, rear panel, and several other parts.

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#43 2 years ago

More powered parts...

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#44 2 years ago

Playfield reassembly commenced

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#45 2 years ago

Using a custom Titan rubber kit I created. Metal being polished as I went along. More reassembly!

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#47 2 years ago

Time to re-rivet and install the siderails. Nice and shiny!!

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#48 2 years ago
Quoted from Ballypin:

Just gotta get the flipper button color correct.

Oh...the flipper buttons will not be correct haha.

#49 2 years ago

Top apron and guide installed. More reassembly...

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#50 2 years ago

More reassembly, and throwing a few powdered parts on the underside of the playfield.

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#51 2 years ago

Playfield reassembly done other than the flippers and the pops.

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#56 2 years ago

Didn’t realize they had the wrong flipper shafts in the box, so using the good ol Gottlieb flippers for now. (I personally like these better than the rounded flipper bats anyway)

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#57 2 years ago

I love these games that use the metal pop skirts. Gotta polish them up though. And all new plastic parts and hardware.
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#58 2 years ago

With the pops and passive bumper between the flips all done.

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#60 2 years ago

Base white coat on the cab. Luckily I’m able to use my business partners paint booth (and high grade auto paint)

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#61 2 years ago

Had to make my own decals. Was able to get a good photo of the side of the game. Traced outline to exact specs of the cabinet on a HD projector. Traced it out on tracing paper.

Transposed that onto one sided adhesive vinyl with carbon paper. Cut out with an X-Acto knife.

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#62 2 years ago

Decals for orange applied and sprayed. Then taped off for green.

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#63 2 years ago

Green stencil sprayed. Had to change the front slightly to match up to the top of the green stencil on the side.

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#64 2 years ago

Finished cab before clearcoat.

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#65 2 years ago

Finished backbox. Now for the clearcoat.

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#66 2 years ago

After two coats of clear.

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#67 2 years ago

Done after 3 coats of clear and buffing. Loaded for the ride back home.

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#68 2 years ago

Soaked the other metal in Evaporust, and getting ready for coin door reassembly. Painted the wood panel for the coin door gloss white, and cleared for easy cleaning.

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#69 2 years ago
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#71 2 years ago
Quoted from Atari_Daze:

Man that is sure a thing of beauty Colson.
Can't help you with a new BG but if your interested, I'd be happy to ship you my scanner so as to recreate you a translite.

Thanks George I appreciate that. I’ve been looking for another BG for about a year, no luck. I might be able to get a scan and send you the file. I’ll keep in touch with you either way.

#72 2 years ago

Back in the shop on the operation table.

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#73 2 years ago

Installed heavy duty leg bolt receivers.

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#74 2 years ago

Started installing the powdered hardware in the cabinet.

This is my version of a butter cabinet. Mirror-like finish is awesome.

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#75 2 years ago

Coin door getting installed.

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#76 2 years ago

More cab and rear PF metal installed. Starting to look awesome.

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#79 2 years ago

You have to paint the PF support bar too.

Quoted from LTG:

What an amazing job. Great work !
LTG : )

Thanks Lloyd!

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#80 2 years ago
Quoted from lowbeau67:

Hot Dam!!
Love the orange!
Fantastic work.
Thx for sharing.

Thanks Beau. Orange definitely came out cool. The black is a nice accent, or it will be once the legs and armor are on.

#81 2 years ago

Horizontal tilt and other bottom cab metal installed.

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#83 2 years ago
Quoted from freddy:

But will it be ready for pinfest?

Should be if you get your ass over here and help me. Haha. It will be. Just about done.

But it looks like it won’t be sold there because Art has dibs.

#84 2 years ago

Now on to the filthy transformer board.

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#85 2 years ago
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#86 2 years ago

Cleaned, removed labels and sanded the trans board and relay mount down. Two coats of paint applied. One more coat, and then a coat of clear and we are done.

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#87 2 years ago

Done and ready for reassembly.

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#88 2 years ago

Who the hell polishes all of the metal spacers on the transformer board?

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#89 2 years ago

Shiny, reassembled and ready to install.

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#90 2 years ago
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#91 2 years ago

On to the backbox...powdered hardware, keyless lock, rear panel fits perfectly.

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#92 2 years ago

Light/display panel needs some love though. Can’t put it back like that.

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#94 2 years ago

Panel painted, mounting screws and washers polished.

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#95 2 years ago

Light panel installed.

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#96 2 years ago

Lockdown receiver installed, and polished shooter plate. I know Darrin loves the translucent orange plunger!

Starting to look like a game again!!

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#97 2 years ago

Raised the transformer board back out for new power cord, and to replace the fuse holder.

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#98 2 years ago

Now up to speed with where I’m at...happy so far!

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#100 2 years ago

A few more shots...and installed new sliders on the back cab panel.

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#102 2 years ago
Quoted from lowbeau67:

You and tractordoc got me thinking that way after
seeing your restore threads.
Really liking the look of this one.
What an eye-catcher!

Definitely dude. Why not. Making everything new looking but a tad boring when doing this amount of work just doesn’t make sense to me.

Personal touches are cool. Will a purist buy a game I’ve done? Probably not. But other people appreciate the uniqueness.

This game is turning out pretty bad ass. Definitely one of the most colorful ones I’ve done. But it works.

This is like a Safari LE now haha.

#105 2 years ago
Quoted from pinwiztom:

I have owned two and both had shit CAB paint jobs.
One was a repaint to a generic design
and the other was original but as with every Safari pin that I have seen
the paint from that era of Bally just disintegrates and flakes off if you just look at it.

That is the freaking truth. Again considering this is what it was. The only artwork I could see was after I took the coin door molding off.

I thought it was one of those times someone had painted pure white over the cab for some ungodly reason. But it wasn’t. Stencils were just flat out gone.

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#109 2 years ago
Quoted from wolverinetuner:

Man, Colson, I’m thoroughly impressed! Great work!

Quoted from bigd1979:

Absolutely gorgeous... awesome job sir..

Thanks fellas!! Hope all is well with you guys.

#110 2 years ago

Haha. Nico has better sense. He would snatch this game up in a second. Lol

Bruce will always give me the thumbs up. Well, most of the time.

#111 2 years ago

Time for insertion.

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#112 2 years ago
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#113 2 years ago

Going back through the album. I love before and after shots.

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#114 2 years ago
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#115 2 years ago
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#117 2 years ago
Quoted from gdonovan:

No pinstadiums?

I’m going to load it up with fairy lights and tiger action figures. Glue them all over the place.

#118 2 years ago

Remainder of apron metal installed. Someone will only notice how nice this thing is underneath when they take off the apron. Lol. I have issues.

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#120 2 years ago

New passive bump and pop caps.

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#121 2 years ago

Polishing more screws Art.

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#122 2 years ago

Apron and shooter cover in.

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#123 2 years ago

Few more shots. Very happy with the end product here.

I really need a nice monkey plastic to replace this chipped one though.

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#125 2 years ago
Quoted from OLDPINGUY:

I wish my wife would do that!

Sounds like it’s time for a talk!

Thanks man. Maybe this game will sit in your gameroom one day.

#128 1 year ago

New playfield glass, lock down bar and armor put together last night.

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#129 1 year ago

Few more pics. It will tie together nicely once the black legs are on.

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#132 1 year ago
Quoted from Ballypin:

Looking forward to swapping the flipper buttons to white.

Definitely. Because the rest of this game looks so original.

If you buy it, you can put whatever color flipper buttons on it you want.

#136 1 year ago
Quoted from pinwiztom:

I might have gone with green for the PF apron, as opposed to Black.

I did debate on that, but at the time I was planning on adding some black to the cabinet stencil. Just didn’t have time to restructure it.

But I also did that on purpose so when illuminated the playfield really jumps out. Which it does.

Quoted from pinwiztom:

Maybe it will look better once S/I cards are installed.
Otherwise fantastic.

Working on the cards right now.

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#137 1 year ago
Quoted from radium:

Really nice. I have a Gottlieb Aloha to restore and been thinking about doing a similar "reimagining" on it. Might design new era-appropriate cabinet art though since its so boring.

Do it man!! I was actually playing with a few designs for a while to redo the cabinet artwork and make it more modern and energetic. But decided to keep it original.

#138 1 year ago

Leg protectors going in. They come pretty dull stock, so might as well polish these up too.

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#139 1 year ago
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#140 1 year ago

New legs and levelers.

(Some people consider new rubbers, LEDs and leg levelers as “restoring” a game)

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#141 1 year ago

I powdered the leg bolts too, so I commonly use a regular socket with a strand of paper towel to prevent any scratches.

Some places like Marco sell a socket with a plastic insert to do the same.

And nylon washers to prevent the bolts from scratching the legs.

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#142 1 year ago

And always add a cable clamp in the rear of the game for the Jones plugs and the power cord, so you don’t have to reach all the way down inside when setting it up.

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#143 1 year ago

On stilts!

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#144 1 year ago

Unwrapped the rear panel. Looks sweet.

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#145 1 year ago

Ties together nicely with the black legs in place.

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#148 1 year ago
Quoted from freddy:

Just got to put my hands on this smooth as glass cab!
Maybe next time I can play this beauty !
Great work cole!

Definitely man. Thanks for swinging by. Just waiting on the two coils. Fixed the lift channel and got the backglass in.

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#149 1 year ago

Left some incans, went mostly with Comet Sunlight. I really hate that Bally (and Gottlieb) didn’t illuminate their glasses better. They need twice as many lamp sockets as they have. A lot of the artwork gets lost in a dark gameroom.

Either way, I really need a better glass.

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#152 1 year ago
Quoted from BeachPickle:

You could check with coos and see if he has this artwork on file, and if so, request to remove the masking on additional areas like the animals, Jeep, and people. He can send the foil rolled up and you just apply it to the glass yourself, and throw some additional led strips in. It would look awesome and be a fitting upgrade to match the rest of your customizations.

Good suggestion, thanks for all the info. My buddy Gary has bought a ton of stuff off Coos lately, so maybe I’ll check with him.

4 months later
#153 1 year ago

Got the coin box powdered to match last week.

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#154 1 year ago

Special thanks to bjab (Bill)!! Stellar fella that surprised me via unsolicited mail with a monkey plastic that he made from a photo I sent him, to replace my broken one.

Came out pretty damn good. Just drilled and installed it tonight.

Thanks again man!

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