A couple of weeks ago, a gentleman that helps out at my local barcade, pulled me to the side and asked if I was looking for a new project. I said absolutely! What have you got? He tells me a story about a girl his wife works with had an eight ball that he had just pulled out of their barn. The first question was DELUXE? And yes was his answer. He had me hook line and sinker.

Fast forward 2 weeks and I took ownership of it. I brought it home last night and set it outside with an air compressor and began blowing all the mud dobbers and cobwebs out of it. The glass had a good layer of bird shit coating it. So after making it clean enough to bring it my work space, I lugged it into the house.

So I am gearing up for my second rebuild now. I have the wiring harness out of the head along with the circuit boards. I will start here with the cabinet, so i can get my foundation to 100%.

I will be able to start getting some better pictures up hopefully to tomorrow.

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Me too there is no burnt areas or traces. But I may just get an All Tek 3 board kit just to treat myself. Main focus is the cabinet for now. Along with cleaning up everything. I want it looking and playing su purb. I will have to figure out something with the playfield.

I wish there was a hardtop for it.

Had a long evening working on EBD. My buddy came over and gave me a hand. He is very interested in the mechanics of pinball machines. He asked if he could apprentice while I worked on this project. I take a scatter shot approach to my projects. So its time to just focus on the cabinet for now. As promised here are the homecoming pictures.

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Last night and tonight I got the cabinet stripped photographed and sorted in zip lock bags and the wiring harness is ready for the dish washer. I will get the cabinet over to the shop for stripping and repairs. The machine was drilled for a coin door lock bar. The floor will have to be replaced along with a few dings and gouges.

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One other item will be cutting a new back box light and display panel. "not sure on the name" This one has a ply that is separating all the way around. It just needs a new start.

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Yeah I'm supper happy with it. I entered the hobby about a year ago and the first private collection I saw, he had one and I just couldn't stop playing it. That moment I knew I would have one. It is one I have been keeping my eye out for since that night.

Good luck to you. I like working on them more then playing

Head is sanded. And gluing in two loose plys.
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The sander hardly dented it. I hate to do it but I'm going to use this chemical stripper.

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80 grit in my orbital turned it to tar. One side already complete. It will get sanded thoroughly after this.

Bottom came out easily. The "nibbler" makes it nice.

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Coin door lock holes are filled

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First coat of primer this morning. Maybe be able to do a little sanding this evening.

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Third coat of primer.

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What do you guys use to fill the small planking marks that the primer won't fill. I tried this on the head side. But the right side of the cabinet body has the same issue. Will body filler do the same thing?

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Thank you. That makes sense.

First base coat is on the lower. Almost sprayed the head and thought wait. This is supposed to be ivory.

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Sprayed the last base coats thursday, and brought it home from the shop.

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So now I installed the first stencils after 2 and a half days of curing.

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And finally sprayed the first color. Rust-Oleum canvas white.

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And one small problem that can be touched up.

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And now the head.

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Thank you. It's moving along.

Legs back from sand blasting.

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And painted. Thanks timab2000 for the flat iron grey paint you mentioned in your lost world restore.

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I did all that on my last rebuild. It was about $230 to do everything including the coin door.

This will be a bone stock EBD. Besides making it more serviceable with molex connections.