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Quoted from KenLayton:Those side rails and lockdown bar are pretty rough. Are you going to have them re-plated? Or will you get them powder coated black?
I've had some success with evaporust on siderails. If they're pitted, some agreesive buffing may be needed.
Quoted from Spyridon:There is definitely some pitting. Is this something that can be buffed out?
It depends.
If it's not too bad and just some very shallow pitting, a buffing wheel can sometimes get it out, given enough time.
There's also re-graining, which is basically sanding down the metal, but it is very time consuming. Basically, you start with a course grit, sand in one direction, then switch to a slightly less-coarse grit, and sand in a perpendicular direction (to your original direction), then go to the next grit, and switch back to the original direction--and keep doing that all the way down to 1500 grit, and maybe finish with some buffing at the end.
Quoted from Spyridon:I used my Nix scanner to scan the colors for paint matching. This is a great device that takes the guess work out of color matching. Simply place the device over the color and use your cell phone to activate the app
I checked that device out--neat idea. However, it's about $350 
Quoted from pinwiztom:Consider your self lucky, that the plastic light shield above the drop targets
is not broken or chipped
as most of the Superman pins i have seen, that is the case.
PETG washers might not be a bad idea.
Quoted from Spyridon:I wanted to scan the entire playfield before I took the magic erasure to it in case I dug into the paint. At least this way I'll have a copy of what was there. I'll also use the scans to create some waterslide decals and possible some stencils.
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With scanning, I've gotten better results when the room is dark. The colors end up being more consistent and less washed out. Also give yourself about 2" of overlap on each edge for each scan. It takes more time to scan, but software has an easier time merging the individual scans with enough reference point clues in each image.
In your merged image, take a look at the pop bumper areas--it looks like things didn't merge quite right.
Quoted from seshpilot:What kind of HP scanner is that? I gotta get one of those!!
HP 4670. It's been discontinued, and there are no other new ones like it the last time I checked. I got mine from ebay a while back.
Quoted from thedefog:Is there a Win 7 Driver for it? I have an old Canon FB that had the option of laying it down flat on surfaces like these screen scanners, only they never updated driver past win 98 (work in XP though). Old drivers, the hardware killer.....
I couldn't even get a legacy close-enough driver to recognize it.
It works fine on Win7. It auto-detects the drivers and uses the native Windows scanning software. I think a few folks mentioned also having it working on Win8 too.
Quoted from Spyridon:Yep, I don't see it on their site
Call or email. There's lots of stuff that isn't on their site.
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