Quoted from toasterman04:if your skills are that limited, why not just give it a decent clean and one quick wax. just enjoy the game the way it was intended. leave the clear coating until you are really ready, and have practiced on an old scrap playfield you pick up for $30 bucks. If you dont know what you are doing you could do more harm than good.
Some of the cupped inserts are affecting ball play so I wanted to get at them as my next improvements on the machine. Skills are limited in playfield teardown/rebuild and I don't have and never used a spraygun; however I have done some furniture refinishing so comfortable enough to do some experimenting with filling the inserts.
I plan on going very slow on filling the playfield inserts, starting with one or two out of the way stuff first; and will bail if it's not going good. If I wax everything now, then I've got wax on my inserts before I start trying to fill them.... assuming that will cause problems and I'll need to strip it off before filling, so wanted to do the filling first.
Good advice though... maybe I'll poke around and see if I can find a scrap playfield locally to practice on first.
If it's not going well, then we stick with the cupped inserts... sort of a home field advantage to know where you're ball may be affected .