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Best solvent to repair pinball ramps and plastics...end of story

By wantdataeast

8 years ago


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    #6 8 years ago
     
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    I have not fixed any ramps yet, but I did butt joint some plastic together with that and it held like a MF.

    Good stuff.

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    So it would really be great to find that the older ramps were butyrate.

    Probably one of the earliest games with a clear ramp would be Comet, so that could be a good test bed.

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    Quoted from wantdataeast:

    I am more curious what the old playfield plastics were made of

    Butyrate, that's why they stink like vomit.

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    #41 8 years ago
     
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    You can see that some ramps are vacuum formed in a mold, and some are injection molded.

    So even on a single game like Whitewater you could have two different ramp plastics

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