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Bally Old Chicago Cabinet Restoration

By Stu

9 years ago

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#1 9 years ago

GON

OMG this cabinet was atrocious! The Cabinet was basically a Wash Board, the wood grain was raised so hi you could wash your clothes on it! Mind you the Backglass & Plastics were perfect, but the game didn't work when I got it, and because of this I was able to make a Trade for it. I traded a Backglass & 1 Set of Plastics for it....Then I spent weeks going through it cleaning & rewiring it...Now it plays super fast & 100%.....

As soon as we repro the Playfield I'll do the PF Swap & be done with it, but until then I thought I would share some pics of the Cabinet Restoration.....

Stu

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#2 9 years ago

RobertWinter

Pinside+ Frequent

12y 117K 2,302 2

Very nice! I have an OC with a completely restored cabinet as well. Luckily my playfield is near perfect so I won't need to do a playfield swap at any point.

Fun game, and those pops by the outlanes can be brutal!

#3 9 years ago

GON

Stu

Inactive member

11y 1,250 2,264

Yep, those pops are a love/hate relationship......

#4 9 years ago

Dono

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Glenelg, MD

9y 86,050 1,784 12 25

Beautiful work... amazing what a nice cabinet repaint can do... I've never seen an OC with a non-faded cabinet.

#5 9 years ago

RLH

Lovef2k

WalltoWallPinball

Carneys Point Township, NJ

11y 89,300 3,848 6

Can you share how you prepared the cab for repainting? Replaced wood, sanded, bondo? Cab restoration in a time consuming project. I have done 6 so far. Currently doing Flash Gordon and it's taking almost a year to restore the entire machine.

#6 9 years ago

GON

Stu

Inactive member

11y 1,250 2,264

Sanded the entire cabinet down to bare wood with my Makita Palm Sander, Bondo, Sand, Bondo, Sand, Primer, Paint Base Coat, then Stencil....All rattle-can paint

Total time for Cabinet Restoration ( including Metal Polishing ) 2 weeks

#7 9 years ago

RLH

Lovef2k

WalltoWallPinball

Carneys Point Township, NJ

11y 89,300 3,848 6

OP
Quoted from Stu:
Sanded the entire cabinet down to bare wood with my Makita Palm Sander, Bondo, Sand, Bondo, Sand, Primer, Paint Base Coat, then Stencil....All rattle-can paint
Total time for Cabinet Restoration ( including Metal Polishing ) 2 weeks

That's what I figured. I love bondo and it smells good too

3 weeks later

#8 9 years ago

PEB

Topcard

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Pittsfield, MA

9y 53,650 522 34

OP
Quoted from Stu:
Sanded the entire cabinet down to bare wood with my Makita Palm Sander, Bondo, Sand, Bondo, Sand, Primer, Paint Base Coat, then Stencil....All rattle-can paint
Total time for Cabinet Restoration ( including Metal Polishing ) 2 weeks

Can you tell me what brand, color, and sheen of spray paint you used? It will save me a lot of trial and error. Als, do you expect CPR to do a playfield in the near future?

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