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Cleaning and Waxing Pinball Machines - Vid's Guide

By vid1900

8 years ago


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    Post #51 A list of pretenders. Posted by vid1900 (8 years ago)

    Post #77 Wax Recommendation Posted by vid1900 (8 years ago)

    Post #1237 Playfield protectors Posted by vid1900 (6 years ago)

    Post #1954 Opening a jar of blitz Posted by vid1900 (2 years ago)


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    #603 8 years ago
    Quoted from vid1900:

    WHAT IS THE BEST PLAYFIELD WAX?
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    You drag your fingers over the well played surface and it still feels like it's waxed. So you know it's still protecting the playfield from ball wear. It's not $60 a can. It does not leave white residue everywhere after it drys that you have to vacuum up. It does not stain plastics. It cleans off completely with Naphtha and allows clearcoating later without fisheyes. You use an incredibly tiny amount to wax a playfield.

    Where does one find this stuff? Amazon is clean out!

    #610 7 years ago

    Dude that's pretty sweet...Novus does work really well. I use it to level and touch up the paint when I fix a chip on my car, too. Works beautifully.

    1 year later
    #1162 6 years ago

    Vid, other than vacuuming/waxing, no further care needed on a newly 2PACed playfield?

    2 months later
    #1272 6 years ago

    A good, non-Ammonia based glass cleaner is Cinch. Difficult to find in stores sometimes, it is sold on Amazon.

    5 months later
    #1435 5 years ago
    Quoted from vid1900:

    I'd be interested to hear how it does on the spinner.

    I know that I use very light fine machine oil very sparingly on my FP spinner, and you can get a boatload of spins easily, as the other guy said, with a straight shot up the lane.

    2 weeks later
    #1440 5 years ago

    YOU just said silicon...

    #1443 5 years ago

    Apologies, I saw and wrote silicone...a mental brain fart on my part.

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