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Can you polish pinballs?

By killerrobots

1 year ago


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    #7 1 year ago
    Quoted from SpyroFTW:

    I feel like there is a joke here with the cups, but Im going to leave it at that…
    I think you could get similar results from a rock tumbler with walnut medium for polishing. Have you tried playing with them after polishing? That should tell you if they are out of round if you start seeing weird wobbles or movement. Overall I dont see it as a worthwhile endeavor, but if they are not out of round, then they would be useable in older single ball machines at a minimum.

    Single ball games usually don’t have any magnets so you can use the shiny polished balls such as Silver Jets without issues….it’s the games with magnets that cause the problem…unfortunately it just seems impossible for anyone to supply shiny balls out of the package for games with magnets. Used to could get them years ago. It’s frustrating and there has to be a reason not explained why they just are not available mirror polished like they used to be.

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