I just wanted to share this quick. I am still kind of baffled by it but understand it co wondering this specific game.

Picked up another Interflip dragon, it's the 3rd one I have. I have known about this game being available for quite some time in Canada but was just waiting for the opportunity to pick it up. Either way I never seen the game before but k ew that the game was missing the backglass and also had the cabinet painted over with black paint. I paid $300USD for it and was expecting it to be more or less a parts machine. Much to my surprise, I approached the game and saw it was extremely clean inside, started inspecting the cabinet and saw that the paint was rolled on and was really smooth which indicated a nice condition cab. If anyone doesn't know, these cabs don't hold up well and the artwork often chips off the cab.l because it's almost baked on. Also I was surprised that it was fully operational as well.

So today I started looking into stripping the black off the cab. I started off with some lacquer thinner or to start seeing if the paint would come off easily. After starting to rob a small spot on the back of the cabinet, I saw that there were actually two coats of paint, one white under the black outer coat. Though there was a lot of elbow grease involved, I was getting a lot of very good progress getting the paint off. Here are some pictures of what it looks like before I started stripping the paint, and a couple pictures through the progress. I have not finished stripping the game yet it will be something that will be over the next couple of days progression.
M it's a shame that someone would paint over the cabinet like they did for no apparent reason other then possibly not liking the artwork. I am hoping that I can bring this game to look like it once did.

I would also like to note that I am in dire need of a really nice back glass for this game. If anyone has one, or knows that they have been scanned and remade. Please let me know I would really like to make this game the "keeper" game out of the three that I have.

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Yeah It is just lacquer thinner and a lot of rubbing. It is an absolute pain but I do agree that the outcome is good.

Made some progress on the back door today at lunch time. He's a couple of pics of the inside if anyone is interested

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PM Sent!

I would like to make a huge shout out to Jody for hooking me up with some backglasses. I ended up driving out to Pittsburgh last night for them.

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Just want to do an update here with progress. Worked on his a few hours over the last couple days. Finished the headers of the game and started working in the front. I took some time and clear sprayed the head and installed the new glass. Also put LED bulbs in it so now I ca consider the head completed.

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Yeah I am excited that someone's expected "half ass" job to paint over has benefitted in allowing me to remove the paint. But it is surely still a pain in my ass. Lots of work to get that all off.

I just wanted to add these so I can wrap this up. I stopped the sides and back of the game. They came out looking great. I will have a pic coming up shortly of the final product.

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