Hi all

Found this pinball game 2 weeks ago. This is my second pin but my first was a gottlieb spirit of 1976. Unfortnately I sold that about 10 years ago. Anyway, this old Bally Sea ray have seen better days. At a distance the playfield looks nice but at closer examine it has a lot of imperfections.

Not sure what to do. What I know is that I will do a teardown of the playfield ( not the underside, only on the play side) so it will be easier to clean and wax.

I guess the way is to use nafta and then try to polish and last do a good waxing. However, I found the cracks a bit disturbing, is there something to do about them? Read that doing a spot repair is not good. But for example, repainting the light green coulor means about repainting 50 percent of the pf and more or less it is the same with the other colors. There is only 5 colors used ( 7 with black and white color ) and the fields are big. After all, the game is 48 years old and I´m not sure if it is correct to paint over all the original paint.

Some suggestions?

By the way, new to this forum and happy to found it.

Thanks

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Well, I tried a magic ersaer similar thing ( same sort of foam but different brand ) on one of the ladys leg. Otherwise nothing is done. This pin have been at the same spot for at least 10 years ( the place I brought it from ) and that guy have never done anything to this. I do not think this pin have had any attention for at least 10 to 20 years.

Anyway, so clean, polish, wax and enjoy?

Thanks