Try as I might, my 900 some-odd square foot house literally has no room for the pin. Kid, wife etc... I put a 55w incandescent in the back of the box.
Will this fly for the playfield and backglass?
I’m in Washington state, near Seattle.
Ive done the reading, heard about the reptile heaters what have you.
I heat the garage up with a portable heater when I’m out here (built in thermostat ain’t worth a damn).
Is this lightbulb the best thing I can do under the circumstances? Should I not heat the garage at all if I’m not consistent about it?
First pin, I’ve put a lot of work into it, playfield isn’t perfect, but it’s not terrible.
Thanks everyone!

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So I did a bunch of reading, and I went ahead with the Triple Thick Route.
Ffs, I hope I didn’t blow it.
There’s some “orange peeling” texture going on.
I watched about 4 videos on how people did it and tried to do it somewhere in between.
Anybody familiar with this? Is this bad? Lol.
There was flaking, and when I removed the backglass, it seemed to exacerbate the condition.
These photos taken right after the second coat

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I’m just hoping I didn’t ruin it by doing the triple thick. I panicked when I saw the little paint flakes coming off, so I got a little ambitious.

There’s an upstairs bedroom, but my wife’s got dibs on that. I built a “recording studio” in the attached garage, so that’s spoken for. I have a Hammond EM organ and Leslie that’s taking up a lot of space. The only way I’d be able to get a pin in there would be to get rid of that.
I’m already debating on that idea.
To be clear, even with the triple thick on the backglass, I should not have it in the pin if I’m going to be using it, correct? I’ve been playing the machine daily out in the detached garage, but I do not want to ruin it if I can help it

So you guys are saying it should be ok installed on the machine? Maybe I could give it a couple days for the TT to cure and then reinstall it.
I hate pulling the glass on and off unnecessarily, feels like I’m disarming a bomb lol.
I play it every day and it looks much better with the glass on there.
I’ve just read horror stories about glass, TT, and cold weather so I wasn’t sure what I should or shouldn’t do

Thanks for the tip. I masked off the bare glass for the score windows so I didn’t have to risk damage by scraping it off.
When I get back home today, I’m going to check to see if it’s “level” with the score windows or not.
In all, I think I put 1 light initial coat, 2 “heavier coats” followed by 1 panicked light coat

I ordered 20 led’s to get started with the backglass.
I ordered one box of 10 for the playfield. I’m going to clean each socket as I install

Well crap. I noticed stuff coming up, so I sprayed it again. Now I see more stuff coming up. I may have essentially destroyed this back glass

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All the areas where the “orange peeling” is occurring seem to be where the paint lifting has/will occur.
Help!

At this point, I think the best possible thing I could do would be to get the LEDS for the backglass, install it, and leave it alone.
I tried to save it and failed miserably. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s to leave the old back glasses alone.
With the way the TT responded when I sprayed it, it reminded me of what spray paint does when it’s applied to a “dirty” surface.
There’s no way I would’ve had the balls to clean the surface first, although in hindsight I should have taken my time and tried.
I had a hard time going to sleep last night because of this, and this is going to be one of those things that will likely bother me until the day I die lol. I hate it when shit like this happens. It’s always when I panic trying to save something