Has anyone made a custom translite? I'm not a fan of the stock one...

Yes, I removed the whole assembly from underneath. If you have some small wrenches you may be able to adjust the lifter arm from the top without removing anything.

I have the hex post and Do Not have Diamondplate on my playfield. Plastic near it looks broken also but i guess it isn't.

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...and here is my scanned file for start to work:

"Black Rose Pinball Translite" (BALLY) scanned at 600 dpi. In restoration process Mikonos & Zona Arcade
https://www.zonaarcade.com/fotos/capturas/Black%20Rose%20Pinball%20Translite%20in%20restoration%20process%20Mikonos1.jpg
Black Rose Pinball Translite in restoration process Mikonos.jpg

I take bigger screenshots and photos, click to enlarge images (and click again on display image mode if it is necessary) for avoid blur effect of pinside´s miniatures.

Regards

Yeah, it's pretty ugly... I would buy a custom one today if I knew they existed. I mean the Translite doesn't even match the rest of the Artwork!

dudah thanks for the help but all it did was make my back hurt from hunching lol.I cleaned it all up and put it back together and still won't catch unless I take the weight off the mech or add weight so I put a small strip of cushion tape under the ramp on the little bracket that the mech pushes up and it works perfect. I almost tried that first but I wanted to fix it the "right" way.

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Ok, IN_Pins!

When I have advances, I will show them here (in my base thread later).

I´m working in custom pinball cards for this pinball too.

If people wants to know my skills for this restoration, this is my base thread:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/restored-and-customized-pinball-artworks-showroom-thread-by-mikonos

Regards

And keep your updates there please.

Nice looking cards Mikonos...please keep your updates here!! I enjoyed reading through your thread...I hadn’t seen it before. I look forward to your BR cards!

Thanks, Pinballerchef!

Don´t worry, I´m determined to show all about Black Rose Pinball from me here!

I have taken a picture of this translite´s damages to show you what I have to repair.

Best regards!

Im ok with pin appropriate updates in game threads. Thats what these threads are for.
PPS aint making Black Rose Translites!

Not canon bodies either it seems (he said with an angry fist )

I know, almost 2 years of promises for a cannon shell and still nothing.

What happened to the guy 3D printing them?

Any tricks to reinforce my currently good one to make sure it lasts?

Click on Add to Wait list and add your email address to the list. Hopefully it will help get a run made. http://bayareaamusements.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=GS-BR03-85XX

Hi guys. Just joined the club with a slight project.
Could someone be kind enough to show me a picture of broadside hole (where you are supposed to shoot with cannon). I think I’m missing something there, since it rearly catches the ball. It only catches it when ball slowly rolls there. Most of the time it just bounces back down.

Tough for me to get picture today. But i know there's a wire gate up there that helps catch ball. Do you have a manual yet?
If i knew part Id suggest marcos.

Does yours have the wire gate and the post in the back? Mine was missing the gate. After adding it it's been near 100%

Hi,
I just bought a set of new plastics for BR, but I have these 2 clear plastics left and I am wondering where they supposed to go, if they go somewhere...thanks.

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the long clear plastic goes on the ramp that goes behind the back box

It has the gate, but it does not do it’s job very well. Only works if ball rolls there super slow. What kind of post is supposed to be there? I can imagine that there is supposed to be something soft that slows the ball down so that the gate has time to close.

Does your gate have a spring? I don't really know if the post helps at all, but it's just a straight post with a rubber sleeve on it iirc

These are some of damages in "Black Rose Pinball Translite" for restoring in my original:

"Black Rose Translite" (BALLY) damages (photo 1).
https://www.zonaarcade.com/fotos/artes/Black%20Rose%20Pinball%20translite%20damaged1.JPG

"Black Rose Translite" (BALLY) damages (photo 2).
https://www.zonaarcade.com/fotos/artes/Black%20Rose%20Pinball%20translite%20damaged2.JPG

Regards

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No spring on the gate. I can see the hole for the post but I doubt it would help.

The spring is what's important. Not sure where you could get one through

https://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/A-14868

Marco has one listed here for reference. Definitely has a spring. I don't see why a one way gate with roughly the same dimensions wouldn't work.

Great post. If these were in stock id pick one up. Im going to see Marco Sat, going to bug him for about a dozen parts.

The ball bounces back out too fast

Thanks for the replies. I think that spring would solve the problem. How to remove that big broadside rear end plastic that covers the gate? I removed those 3 visible screws, but it did not move one bit.

I don't think removing the plastic will help, it's got the back wall behind it. I replaced mine by removing the white ramp behind the wall, then removing the metal guide and wireform

I finished with "Black Rose Pinball Translite" restoration, it is perfect now!

"Black Rose Pinball Translite" (BALLY) scanned at 600 dpi. Restored by Mikonos & Zona Arcade
https://www.zonaarcade.com/fotos/capturas/Black%20Rose%20Pinball%20Translite.%20Mikonos1.jpg

Details in "Black Rose Pinball Translite" (BALLY) scanned at 600 dpi. Restored by Mikonos & Zona Arcade
https://www.zonaarcade.com/fotos/capturas/Black%20Rose%20Pinball%20Translite.%20Mikonos2.jpg

Details in "Black Rose Pinball Translite" (BALLY) scanned at 600 dpi. Restored by Mikonos & Zona Arcade
https://www.zonaarcade.com/fotos/capturas/Black%20Rose%20Pinball%20Translite.%20Mikonos3.jpg

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*I take bigger screenshots and photos, click to enlarge images (and click again on display image mode if it is necessary) for avoid blur effect of pinside´s miniatures.

Regards

After 2 years of search, I finally joined the club!
As I wanted to keep this one, I fully restored it from head to toes. Touched up playfield and clearcoated, not the perfection but much more better than before.

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Beautiful! I want to clear coat my game but I have the giant factory mylar installed (also not diamond plate). Does anyone have any success in removing the mylar without any paint?

Probably one of the few games I own that I'd consider a CPR/etc playfield for, hmm

That "S I N K S H I P" has to be the nicest I've ever seen. Bellissimo!

Great game. I just bought one last week. My first ‘older’ pin. Quick question. I can’t figure out how to turn the knocker off. It terrifies my dogs and there is an adjustment in the menu of all my modern games. Can’t seem to find it in this menu. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Your going to have to pull translight to backbox and unplug it. Don't recall knocker in menu.

I looked for BR for a while too. 2 weeks ago I got a chance to buy one. It was in a rough condition (except for playfield). But as I intended to keep it, I decided to restore it.

This is what I started with (8 pictures in an album):
https://aijaa.com/pq4GNT

And this was after a 3 days of paint jobs (4 pictures):
https://aijaa.com/PS7qPD

please do not remove it. The first playfield I had, had a factory mylar installed, and when I tried to remove it, all the inserts came with it...better leave it as is and wait for a reproduction playfield or inserts decals made one day... maybe a good polish also?

It can be done, but it's tricky. You have to freeze the mylar and pull it off rapidly. It will leave the adhesive on the playfield (you'll clean it up with another stuff afterwards). Full playfield mylar is not the one you should practice on though.

I guess we all do things diffrently, but thats just crazy advice in my humble opinion.

If your going to remove mylar with the freeze method (which usually is the best method on games from this era) dont just rip it off, TAKE YOUR TIME.
Make sure the adhesive has frozen and pull slowly. Freeze, pull, repeat. Dont rush things like this.

Seconding this. You have to go very slow - a lot of times it’s hard to tell if you’ve successfully frozen off the adhesive, and you pull too hard, too fast and ... lifted insert decals..

My experiences have been exact opposite. Freeze separates mylar from adhesive, not adhesive from playfield. I do a small area at a time of course, but if I lift mylar slowly it will pull the adhesive too. And thats what you want to avoid.
I ruined 2 inserts practising slowly. And after that I started doing it faster. No problems since.

I followed Vid's guide - https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/vids-guide-to-ultimate-playfield-restoration#post-547712

He doesn't really specify, just states to " Carefully peel the film back a section at a time." I interpreted this as "go slowly!" and it so far has worked well

Inserts can be peeled off slowly too.

It’s important to not use too much force. If mylar is frozen properly, it will peel off quite easily.
If you haven’t done it before, practice on an area that has no inserts.

Just wanted to price check Black Rose here with you guys... I put mine up for trade recently and got back some interesting offers. So for starters I know I put in a lot of mods on mine and I will never get that value back. I get that. I accept that, but some of the offers I got were kind of insulting and it stung a bit. Has the market for this pin dropped?

My Black Rose
Coin Taker Non Ghosting LEDS
Mirrored sides
Color DMD
Pin-stadium Lights
Cannon Cliffy
Good-Great condition regarding the playfield
No color fade on the side of the Cab.
Everything works as it should.
Battery pack mod

My offers where $1500 (I have had multiple offers for this), $1800, $2000 (about 6 offers), Straight up trade for a Jokerz, Straight up trade for a Sharkey's Shootout, Straight up trade for an NBA Fastbreak (in rough condition).

I am not ashamed to say I bought the game for $2800 and put in a pretty penny on the mods. So I was a little taken back. Are these people just low balling badly? I assume its worth is still around $2400-$3000 depending on mods and what shape the pin is in.

I don't know what do you guys think???

Even a beat up stock one I'd expect ~$2k.

I paid 2600 for mine with faded cab,near perfect diamond plated playfield,art blades and led and in felt ingot a very fair deal so 3k is not a crazy price imo.