Hamburg
Hello to all
We would like to see if there is a demand for a repro playfield F14 Tom Cat?
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
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Hi.
If there is demand, then I will run them. The price will be approx 650€ and 95€ shipping to the USA.
Shipping Australia 105€
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
Please write me directly to [email protected]
Subject F14 Tom Cat
I am a official parts supplier. Its no problem for me to make a mold for missing inserts, I manufactur all inserts I need myself.
My main busness is injection molded plastic parts.
Hello to all.
If you are intrested, please send an email directly to me [email protected]
Have a nice day
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
Hello to all
If I get enough pre-orders this project will go through 100%
Once enough pre-orders came in, Ill ask all to confirm and commit with a 100Euro deposit.
Then I will produce the comfirmed ammount of playfields.
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
They will be ready to mount. Could be that the holes must be clean drilled (clear coat).
We dont use insert decals, we silkscreen print, as the original.
And yes, they will have clear coat on them.
Please send me an email directly to [email protected], subject F14 Tomcat, then I can put you on my list
The Dollar / Euro has been stabil like this since many mounths. First the problem with Greece, now all the refugies comming into Europe,
That will keep the Euro low for some time.
I could also ask full payment, then the exchange rate is fixed to the date of intrest.
But I dont then want to be rushed, it will take as long as it takes.
Hello.
I need roughly another 30 preorders, then Ill start the project.
Im buisy doing the mold for the insert allready, quiet sure this project will go through.
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
1 week later
Hello to all
I am still missing 20 orders. But Im going to risk it now, I will order the wood this week. Im sure that a couple of people will still
jump in.
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
Please send an email directly to [email protected] if you want to be on the list.
1 month later
Hello to all.
We are now finally online. http://www.perfectplayfields.com/
It was a battle, not the solution we wanted, but now we are online with a few parts.
We will still need alot of hours to optimze all
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
Hello to all
Hello to all. I havnt got enough orders yet. But I have taken the risk and have order the wood. The milling and artwork are still in work.
I will run them as soon as all is set up and the wood arrives.
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
3 weeks later
Hi to all.
The wood is at the carpenters place, the milling program has been made. Im still waiting the original artwork files.
As sson as the art will arrive, we will check it with the milling programm and get started.
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
1 month later
Hello to all.
We are busy fitting the graphic to the milling program. The wood has been delivered to the carpenter.
Hopefuly we can send the carpenter the milling file next week.
Wish you all a nice day.
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
1 month later
Hello to all.
The black film and the milling program are both fitted to each other. We are waiting for the carpenter to do the first trail
milling. As soon as we get the first test board we will mount the parts to re-check that all is correct, then we will start production.
Wish you all a nice day
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
www.buthamburg.de
4 weeks later
Hello To all.
We had to do some correction on the milling program and are now waiting for the second trial board.
But so far all looks good, production will soon start. Ill then send all on my list an email to comfirm the order
with the 100 Euro pre payment.
Hope we get the next board early next week.
Wish you all a nice day.
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
2 weeks later
Hello to all.
Im waiting a cal from the carpenter, then Ill fetch the board today and check if its now OK.
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
Hello to all.
Im happy to announce that we have started the milling of the boards. The production has started.
Ill ask all to confirm their order with a 100 Euro deposit and will mill the quontity of the pre paid boards.
If you are not on the pre order list and would like to jump in, then please mail me directly to [email protected]
Regrads from Hamburg
Peter
Hello to all.
OK, here are some pictures.
This is the board were we approved the final Milling.
Mounted all the parts and tested the inserts.
This is a test board, the playfields are milled in a Maple board as the original.
Over the weekend Ill post the first Board with glued inserts.
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
Hi to all.
Here again the cost of the F-14 Playfields.
F-14 Playfield 650 Euro
Shipping to the USA / Canada 95 Euro
Shipping to Australia 105 Euro
Shipping to the EC countries 35 Euro
Shipping inside Germany 15 Euro
Buyers from the EC countries is + 19% VAT
We are busy collecting 100 Euro pre payments to confirm your order. Payment is via PayPal to [email protected]
We will only produce the ordered amount of boards to not land up with a huge stock in storage.
The finalizing date is approx. end of October.
We will update here in this thread. Next update will be over the weekend with a picture of the first board with glued inserts.
Regards from hamburg
Peter
Hi to all.
We will close the list soon. The carpenter is on holiday for 2 weeks.
After his holiday he will continue milling the ordered boards.
He will be finished on the 2nd of September. Thats the time we will close the pre-order list.
Here again the cost of the F-14 Playfields.
F-14 Playfield 650 Euro
Shipping to the USA / Canada 95 Euro
Shipping to Australia 105 Euro
Shipping to the EC countries 35 Euro
Shipping inside Germany 15 Euro
Buyers from the EC countries is + 19% VAT
We are busy collecting 100 Euro pre payments to confirm your order. Payment is via PayPal to [email protected]
We will only produce the ordered amount of boards to not land up with a huge stock in storage.
The finalizing date is approx. end of October.
Have a nice weekend
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
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Quoted from nightsearcher:Hi Peter, can you post a list of the people that you have received deposits from to assure us we have made your list. I hate to miss out because of a stupid error on PayPal end
Hi. Ill send an email out today to all the people who have pre-paid.
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
www.buthamburg.de
I have sent an email out to all that have per-paid.
If you didnt receive an Email, then I did not receive your pre-payment.
Many thanks for your trust.
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
www.buthamburg.de
Quoted from Shiny_balls:Awesome Peter!
I think the blue screen printing color should be matched to the new playfield plastic set....right?
Good job Peter!
No, we are only printing with the nice full color shades of the original boards.
It is important for us to match the colors as close as possible. Different shades can make the playfield look off.
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
www.buthamburg.de
Quoted from bronco-jon:I received your Email. I am feeling good about this! Looking forward in getting my new playfield!
...Peter, before you clear coat mine, I need you to have Steve Ritchie autograph the upper playfield between Hitman and Gen. Yagov.
It will go good with my autographed translite.
Don't forget to autograph and date the underside yourself if you don't mind.
Jon
Hi.
I can send you the F-14 playfield with a sanded clear coat, then you can ask Steve Ritchie to sighn the playfield, then you can send it for a final clear coat to some one in the US. Let me know if this will work for you.
Ill be happy to sign the playfield with date under the appron?
Regrads from Hamburg
Peter
2 weeks later
Hello to all.
We have some dimples from both sides, enough to place the parts correctly. We only have the version with the lite sockets,
not the version with the light boards, all our sample playfields were equipt with singel lite sockets for the flying arrow lite rows.
We have glued inserts on 60 Playfields and are now busy sanding them down so we can bring the first bunch of playfields
to the paint shop to get the primer.
The pre-order list will close on the 9th of September.
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
The first board has the inserts in the lane out twisted. Will be fixed.
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
www.buthamburg.de
1 week later
Quoted from shirkle:Peter- will you be posting here when our final payments are due?
Hi. Yes Ill post it here. I will also send an email to all on the pre-payment list.
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
www.buthamburg.de
Hi to all.
Inserts are all glued, we are busy sanding them.
The first load is at the painters shop for primer.
Printing is planned begining of October.
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
3 weeks later
Hello to all.
We are nearly ready for printing, we had to redo 18 Boards, the prime wasnt good. As sson as they have cured decently
we will start the printing. Ill then update with pictures of the white print.
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
1 week later
Hello to all
All the boards are now fully primered, all looks good. We will bring the last bunch of boards to the
printer in an hour. We rechecked all the Films, some tight corners are in that might get very tricky
but we will see once the print is on the go. On Monday we will start printing.
Wish you all a nice weekend
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
www.buthamburg.de
Hello to all.
We have just come back from the printers shop, the white has been printed.
Now the position of the print is fixed, lets see how it developes.
Here are some picture of the first steps in printing.
The first picture is showing the naked boards that have been primered.
Second picture is showing the finished silk screen.
The third picture is showing the first printed board.
The forth picture is showing the white print.
Tomorrow we will continue with yellow.
Have a nice day
Buthamburg Team
www.buthamburg.de
Hi.
Yes, we have also noticed it, it was to late to get it fixed. We will use that board for our F-14. Yesterday we printed
yellow, today we will print orange and if there is enough time, red. Will update once I get back from printing.
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
www.buthamburg.de
This is the last update for this week. Green has been printed. Next week
on Tuesday we will print the last color, black.
Then the paint needs to rest a couple of days before we can bring them to the paint shop
for clear coating.
Wish all all a nice Weekend
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
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Hello to all
We are proud to annouce that we have finished printinghe F-14 Tom Cat playfields.
Yeah, the black has been printed. All work out very nicely.
The blue is more intensive than you can see on the picture,
the picture was taken with flash light.
Tomorrow we will take the playfields to the paint shop, its now clear coat time.
Regards from Hamburg.
Peter
1 week later
Hello to all
Thank you for all your trust.
The first clear coat has been applied, now we are waiting for the clear coat to settle.
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
Basic is 2 coats. The first bunch of playfieds had been clear coated on Friday the 4th.
As soon as the clear has settled we will apply the second coat.
Hello to all
After the second coat has setteled, we will check them and then decide if a 3rd coat is needed.
At the Moment there is not another Option to do custom clear coating. To do a decent mirrow finish it can take upto
2 years, and then you can still see the outlines of inserts after the clear coat has settled completly. But we will do our best to get a
decent Playfield out to you.
It would be the best to let the Playfield rest for atleast 6 months. Then sand and apply another clear coat layer and wait again and repeat until you are satisfied.
Kruzman would also be an option.
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
1 week later
Hello to all
We are now doing the clear coat. The first batch will be brought to the paint shop today,
these playfields are now ready for the second coat.
The second batch of playfields have thier first coat and will be fetched from the paint shop toady.
Sorry but its hard to update, it is now mainly waiting time, waiting for the clear coat to settle.
I hope that the first boards can be sent out in the first week of December.
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
2 weeks later
Hello to all
Sorry the late update, we are fighting to get all packed and shipped out.
The next bunch will receive an mail today.
DHL will send you a message with the tracking nr.
About 50% of the boards need another clear coat, we dont just want to send them out like that,
we will sand them down over the weekend and get them to the paint shop next week Monday.
Those will be shipped out approx 2 - 3 weeks time.
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
1 week later
Hello to all
The clear coat on the shipped playfields were about 4 weeks ago. It should be ready to mount parts.
To be on the safe side you can wait another 4 weeks before starting the first game.
We are also going to wait another 4 weeks before we start a game on our F-14, cant wait to see the speed.
We ahve updated our Home Pages a bit, not finished yet, we will continue, but now you can see the lined up playfields
for 2017.
Wish you all a Merry Christmas
But Hamburg Team
www.buthamburg.de
SOF
We are thinking of putting up a vote side, then you could vote for playfields needed and we can check if we can get the rights to do them.
Peter
Hello to all.
Its Christmas time and there are a lot of parcel being sent. Mainly the parcels get stuck before the US Customs.
Once the playfields pass the customs the delivery is in a few days. I hoped that the first bunch of playfield would have arrived by now.
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
www.buthamburg.de
Hello to all.
We wish you all a Merry Christmass and all the best for 2017.
Regards from Hamburg
Buthamburg Team
www.buthamburg.de
Hello to all.
We are happy to see that the playfields are rolling in now.
Thank you for all your patient and thanks for the acnoledgement, we really apritiate it.
The Mark in the Raster is in the original films that Williams used. We were not sure if its a mistake or if
something should have been printed in that area. Looking at the pixels in the original data, the you can see that the raster
is running out towards that area, and above that area the raster gets stronger again. We decided to print them as they were printed.
We wish you all a Happy New Year and all the best for 2017.
In January we will start of with Getaway and Terminator 2 Judgement day.
Regards from Hamburg
But Hamburg Team
www.buthamburg.de
Hello to all.
We wish you all a Happy New Year and all the best for 2017.
Regards from Hamburg
Buthamburg Team
www.buthamburg.de
1 week later
Hi
Yes, it is a 2 part automotive clear coat.
If you have the possiblility to "bullet proof" it, it would always be better.
Please note that we cannot do custom clear coating on production runs, but we do our best
and we put extra clear coats if the first 2 coats dont work out well. All the material are very fresh
on production runs, with the time it will dimple. If you have the time, then it would be better to let the clear coat settle
for atleast 6 months and then give it to a "professional" for extra clear coating.
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
www.buthamburg.de
3 months later
Hello to all.
Sorry, but the first bunch is sold out.
We will open a new pre-order list for F-14.
If you are interested to purchase a F-14 playfield, then please mail me to [email protected]
Pre-order list is now open.
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
www.buthamburg.de
1 year later
Hello to all
We are busy setting up the milling machine for F-14 playfields.
The pre-order list is still open, if you wish to be on the F-14 playfield list,
Then please send me an email to [email protected] including your postal address.
Delivery time approx March 19
1 F-14 reproduction playfield Euro 700 Approx.
Shipping to the US and Canada Euro 95
Shipping to Australia Euro 105
Shipping inside the EC Euro 35
Shipping inside Germany Euro 18
Note: If the Playfield remains in the EC we have to charge 19% VAT / MwSt.
Regards from Hamburg
Leon and Peter
www.buthamburg.de
1 month later
1 week later
The F-14 Playfields now have primer and are ready for silk screen printing.
We will let them rest for 1 week. Printing is scheduled for beginning of April.
The picture is showing the F-14 Playfield with primer.
We still have a handful of F-14 Playfields available, if you wish to jump in on this production run,
then please send me an email to [email protected] with your postal address.
Have a nice Sunday
Regards from Hamburg
Leon & Peter
3 weeks later
2 months later
Hello to all
Here is a first peep of the F-14 Playfields.
We have had a bad delay for the printer failed badly. We had
to purchase a printing machine and repair printed the boards.
The F-14 playfields are now getting thier clear coat, the first batch
got the final clear coat this week. If all went well we will send out the first F-14 Playfields next week.
Wish you all a nice weekend.
Regards from Hamburg
Leon and Peter
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Yes, let the playfield rest for atleast 30 days.
You can also test the coat with your finger nail. Take a spot,
for example were the fire back coil gets mounted, Feel the hardness of the clear coat.
If you leave marks easly with your finger nail, then it is not ready to mount. If its very hard
to make a mark, then its ready for mounting.
Regards from Hamburg
Leon and Peter
www.buthamburg.de
1 month later
Hello to all
It makes us proud that you are all happy with our hand craft work, that is the best loan that we can receive, Thank you.
The time was now to stand up for we were mentioned having Ghosting problems. We did have a ghosting problem,
the problem was man made and not because the clear and paints dont match. 8 Boards didnt get primered, 1 paint both
load. Having no primer on the inserts caused the ghosting, the clear coat couldnt hold to the plastic insert. In the last few months,
we are often asked if our playfields are having issues with clear coat, others have canceled thier pre-order, others dont respons to mails.
So we decided to take a video showing how we break down the art print and the clear coat. We did expect attleast some clear coat chipping
off while hammering the insert. The insert is cracked but we cant see any ghosting, the clear coat is badly dented and the hammer left deep
dimples in the wood area. I think we have now showed that our playfields dont have the issues that certian other playfield manufactures have.
Knock 3 times on wood.
Have a nice day
Regards from Hamburg
Leon and Peter
Thank you.
I must pass it on to my Son, Leon, working with the same passion on producing playfields
and pinball spare parts.
We are now working on capacity, we are looking for new company premises.
Regards from Hamburg
Leon and Peter
Yes, we still have some F-14 Playfields available.
Please send me an E-Mail directly to peter at buthamburg dot de.
Regards from Hamburg
Leon and Peter
6 months later
Hello to all
Thank you, It is the best loan that we can receive, happy customer`s
We have opened a new F-14 Playfield list. If you want to pre-order,
then please send us an email directly to peter(et)buthamburg.de
Wood is ordered and inserts are on stock.
Regards from Hamburg
Stay well
Leon and Peter
www.buthamburg.de
8 months later
Hello to all
We have glued all inserts and are busy sanding them nice and smooth. The boards will be primered in January.
We hope that we can start silkscreening in January.
If you are interested to be on our pre-order list, please send us an email directly to peter (et) buthamburg.de
Wish you all a Merry Christmas and stay well.
Leon & Peter
www.buthamburg.de
1 month later
Hello to all
The demand was highier so we decided to order a few more boards. They arrived and we are busy milling them.
Target is to get them finished by May.
Regards from Hamburg
Leon and Peter
www.buthamburg.de
Quoted from slochar:Peter, I got one from PPS a couple months ago so you can take me off the list. I hadn't realized they had stock of it and was ordering something else there and decided to look at the playfields and there it was.... had thought they were sold out everywhere until then.
That was an expensive intended $14 parts order but the PF is gorgeous.... now, when will I have time to swap it in?
Hi. Thank you for your notice. Can you please send me an email directly, then I can take you off the list. Havnt tracking on pinside.
Email is peter(et)buthamburg.de
Regards from Hamburg
Peter
www.buthamburg.de
4 months later
Not yet,
We will start printing approx. end of July.
Regards from Hamburg
Leon and Peter
www.buthamburg.de
3 months later
Hello to all.
We have had some delay. The boads are getting primer now.
Ill update soon.
Regards from hamburg
Peter
3 weeks later
Hello to all.
We have a delay on printing. Boards are ready but we need to reprint more than half the run of Road Show.
The screens still have the Road Show in them, so we need to do them first. Here is what we posted .
As soon as we finished the Road Show printing, we will bring back the screens to get F-14 into them.
Sorry the delay.
Today was a day that we actualy didnt want to do our work. Unfurtunitly the clear coat foamed on 50% of the Road Show Playfields. The presure was set far to high in our system which caused this disaster. Today we sanded off the clear coat and the print. We will have to re-print these boards. We do have enough of Road Show playfields for those how pre-ordered. This will delay the F-14 for a couple of weeks and ofcourse further projects. Well that is live I gues, we didnt want to leave it that way, it was hard to notice but it is not our standard and the clear coat would not be as strong as it should. Work is finished now,
Regards from Hamburg
Leon and Peter
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Hello to all.
Here we go again, after a long wait for pigments and latley a bit of time off we could eventually start printing F-14 today. The white worked out well, was a bit tricky and we had to re adjust the paint a few times for it is to warm, the paint dries before it can level out.
White is on, next will be yellow. Maybe we can print 2 colors from now on.
We will keep updating.
Regards from Hamburg
Leon and Peter
www.buthamburg.de
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Hi
Last week Wednesday we wanted to print the next color, yellow. As we put in the screen, we noticed that the screen, the artwork , was copied in wrong, mirrored. We went through all screens and found a second wrong copied screen. We brought back the screens to the screen maker. Yesterday the screens were delivered. Today we tried to catch up, we printed 3 colors. Yellow orange and red. Now we are halway, 4 colors printed and 4 to go. We will try to print atleast 1 color a day. We would like to do it all in 1 go, but we have many jobs to do.
Hope you are enjoying to see how the print is building up slowly, color for color, genuen silk screening.
Regards from Hamburg
Leon and Peter
www.buthamburg.de
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Hello again.
between milling Alien and Queen playfields, gluing inserts and packing parcels we printed 2 colors since the last update. We have the light blue and the dark blue printed. We still need the green and the the final, the black. The colors all came out perfect, the registration of the colors are nearly spot on. Difficult to print at the moment, the 1 day you have 31 degrees, the next morning it is 18 degrees. For each print the colors must be adjusted and the pressure of the squeegee reduced or aply more to control the size
of the print. The more presure, the more the screen streches.
Now we will mill a couple of hours and then off for this weekend.
Next week we will finish the printing. In that time we will hopefully have the gitares, ( mini playfield) for Queen finished milling, then we will through the F-14 on that milling machine for finish milling.
Hope you are injoying the process of printing.
Have a nice weekend
Regards from Hamburg
Leon and Peter
IMG_0133 (resized).JPGToday we finished printing the F-14 Playfields. They turn out fantastic.
Now we will let all paints cure for a few days and then start with the last milling step. After milling we will take them to the paint shop for clear coating.
Have a nice day
Regards from Hamburg
Leon and Peter
www.buthamburg.de
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We are planning to get the first on there way begining of Nov.
They are selling out fast, only a few left over.
Hello to all
We have sent out Emails requesting payment. Some didnt pay up yet. Mayber our Email landed in your spam folder.
Mail was sent on the 4th of Oct.
Regards from Hamburg
Leon and Peter
3 weeks later
Hello to all
Sorry the delay. The paint shop did not clear coat them yet. We were there yesterday again, they started to clear coat the F-14 yesterday.
We hope they will keep them in a warm room so we can start shipping out end of next week.
We are busy building our new facility, hope we can get all finished until Jan. 23 We will have our own paint booth. We will
also have a very modern sanding machine, electronically controlled. Having now all done in our own facility will speed up production
and cut the delays down. We have also imployed a painter.
Machines and Parts, also Parts for the paint booth will be delivered on the 28th and 29th Nov.
At this point we want to thank all for your patient and your trust, many thanks.
Regards from Hamburg
Leon and Peter
2 weeks later
Hello to all
Yesterday we have started packing the F-14 Tom Cat playfields. While seeing through them we have noticed that some playfields
have Ghosting on edges on several inserts. On other playfields we found some inserts with tension cracks. This can only happen
during primer procedure, the paint shop has done something wrong while applying primer. We could not notice it for we get the boards
back sanded and the top of the inserts are then blunt. We regret this, we can’t send out the playfields like this. The only solution is to sand all off and start again.
This is a massive back blow for our company and a big disappointment. We can only apologize. We didn’t want to just send out the playfields like this, some look good but they will all have this problem. We can’t risk to send out the boards that look good, it would be a disaster if you finished assembling your game and then get hit with a Ghosting issue on the inserts.
We will start sanding the playfields down next week, get the tension cracked inserts swopped and see if we can get them primered before Christmas. We are busy printing Terminator 2 playfields. As soon as they are printed, we will get the screens to the screen maker to copy in F-14 again. Hopping that we can get all done until Feb – Mar. 2023.
The tension cracks happen once the primer is applied and, for some reason, there are other chemicals flying around in the air that will then react, or the wrong cleaner has been used and reacts. Another reason could be that the paint shop sanded throw the primer and then the cleaner chemically reacts. The last sound more reasonable at this moment for we have ghosting around the edges of the inserts.
Her are some pictures of the damages.
Sorry that this happened, we were working hard to get these F-14 playfields out tomorrow so that you could receive them before Christmas.
Regards from Hamburg
Leon and Peter
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Hello to all.
It has been some time were we updated. We have a delay but need to finish our new facility as quick as possible. We need to get the clear coating done our selves. The paint shop has messed up so much work, Not only the F-14 Playfields. We will get the paint booth finished in Feb and will beable to do the clear coating ourselves. Sorry, we know you are all waiting for your playfields and we are really pushing to get them done. They are sanded down and the damaged inserts have been taken out. Next week we will receive the new produced inserts. We will start gluing them as soon as they arrive.
In the mean time, a small update on our new facility.
We are getting on with the new facility. All the equiptment has been delivered and we could start building up the paintbooth. The paint booth is nearly finished, we are a bit further than the pictures are showing, the last wall of the paint booth is completed, next step is to pull in the ceeling. Small little things like lite and clean up the walls, paint them to get a smooth finishing.
Attached are some pictures.
We will get the paint booth finished next week. We will also get the air chanels mounted, incomming air with heating system and out going air with the filter system. That is all still a bit tricky, but then it will be easy going.
Then we still need to finish the walls for the curing rooms, that should go fast, straight forward walls, easy going.
We will place a new update soon.
Wish you all a nice Sunday.
Regards from Hamburg
Leon, Ron and Peter
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Hello to all.
Here is a short video, F-14 Tom Cat, showing how we are sanding off the artwork and all down to the wood again. This step went real fast with the new sanding machine. What really took a long time was to take out the damaged inserts, 1 by one. Cant just hit them out for the wood will then get damaged.
We are trying to get them redone as fast as possible. Unfortunately
we must build our new facility and on top we still need to keep the production of Alien and Queen going.
At the same time we are preparing to print Terminator, as well as producing and packing plastic parts for shops worldwide.
We should be ready for printing the F-14 in approx. 3 weeks, the rest will be easy going.
We will update with new video and pictures of F-14 and T2 and once we get the next chance, some more info’s on the new facility.
Once the new facility is up and running, we will speed up our repro playfield production.
Next in the line will be Black Rose.
Have a nice day
Regards from Hamburg
Leon, Ron and Peter
https://www.facebook.com/buthamburg.de/videos/879214550036083
1 month later
Hello to all
A short update to the F-14 Tom Cat playfields.
First I want to apologize for the bad delay.
We are in a bad situation not able to do our actual work.
Since October we have rented a new facility, having to install electric, build up walls for paint booth, incoming, outgoing air channels and
curing rooms, setting up milling machines and the new sanding machine with vacuum unit and getting all the machinery moved over.
We had a lot of delays with the suppling companies for machinery, delay from week to week to months.
At the same time we needed to keep up the production for Pinball Brothers, Alien, and start the new model Queen.
Supply shops worldwide with spare parts. We are all exhausted, the work grew over our heads.
At the same time my Father was hit with a stroke, living alone, My wife and me had to also take care of him, he is now
able to walk a few steps and is making good progress. We had to quit his apartment and move all out, do wall work, taking out the complete kitchen until end of this month.
It is nearly done, 1 truck load to go, the land lord has inspected the apartment and is satisfied with our work. On Tuesday we will hand over keys.
The new facility is nearly built up so that we can at least start working, tomorrow we will do the electric for the incoming air, there is a heating system so we can also do clear coating in winter.
There is still a lot that needs to be done and I’m sure that while we are working we will need to do some changes, but the biggest job is done and we can start doing our work on playfields
very soon. We will not have to rely on the paint shop anymore and we have the control over the primer and clear coat work. F-14 will be the first boards that will receive primer
in the new facility, looking forward.
I want to express our heartily thanks to you all for your patients, we highly appreciate it.
Regards from Hamburg
Leon, Ron and Peter
1 month later
Hello to all.
Our new facility is, so far, up and we can work. The main things have been finalized. Production is speed up now. There are still alot to do, building walls and rooms but we are set up and working.
Terminator 2 Playfields.
We have now started to print the Terminator 2 Judgement Day playfields. The white and the 3 gray shades are printed. Alltogether it is 11 colors, 7 more to go. Tomorrow we will continue.
F-14 Tom Cat Playfields
We have taken out the brocken inserts and replaced them with new inserts. The boards will be ready for printing as soon as we finished printing T2. Once T2 is finished, we will take the screens to the screen maker and get F-14 copied into them. It looks like we can get the screens to the screem maker by end of next week. We will try and push them a bit.
Thanky you for all your patients, we really appriciate it.
Looking forward to get the F-14 finalized again.
Allthough the errors in the batch could not be seen by many people
we still could not send them out knowing about these issues, it might have gone good, but we didnt just want to send them out like that. We are very greatfull that 80% of the paid pre-orders are prepared to wait until the playfield are redone. Many many thanks.
We wish all a nice weekend
Regards from Hamburg
Ron, Leon and Peter
IMG_0227 (resized).JPGYes, we will start soon with Black Rose. After T2 is printed, we will print F-14.
We will start milling Black Rose and get inserts glued.
Hi.
I just checked but could find an email with your user name. We dont have track on users names, only on email adresse.
It looks like the paint shop didnt apply the primer decently, or the sanded it to much and took it off again. I think second is
more relavent.
We are very busy at this time, still need to build alot in the new facility and we need to catch up months and months of work.
Screens will be taken to the screen maker on Monday to get F-14 copied into them.
I will answer all unread emails over the week end, appologize for the delayed answer.
Regards from Hamburg
Leon, Ron and Peter
1 month later
Hello to all.
We have started to print the F-14 Tom Cat playfields. We have printed the white and the yellow.
We have had some nerve wrecking waiting time for the screens to be made, eventually they were delivered. We had to use sticky tape over the complete back side of the boards to close all the holes. If the holes stay open we cannot build up vacuum to hold the boards in position while printing them. To 2 and a half days, need to be very neat, not 1 fold, so the boards will lay flat on the vacuum table.
The outcome of the print is very nice, weather is warmer, the paints flow nicely.
We will try to print at least 1 color every day, we will push hard to get these done as soon as possible.
Regards from Hamburg,
Leon, Ron and Peter
IMG_0242 (resized).JPGWe actualy dont do it this way, These playfields showed up that the paint shop didnt primer them and we had ghosting on insert that showed up before shipping them out. So these we had to sand off and redo them with all teh holes in them. We print the boards and then do a finish milling all holes and cut outs that go through the boards. This way we dont have to use any tape.
but thank you for your info.
1 week later
Hello to all
This week we had to do alot of other work, but we found some time to print the next 2 colors. Orage and red, now we have 4 colors on.
This weekend we will take a rest, we are all exhausted, next week we will continue and are pushing to get them finished printed by next week.
We wish you all a nice weekend
Regards from Hamburg
Ron, Leon and Peter
IMG_0246 (resized).JPG 1 week later
Moin moin to all.
Today we will make a lot of people happy.
First I want to say thank you to all that paid in full in December, awaiting their playfield before Christmas. Thank you for the trust you gave us and the possibility to make it right again.
We have had further back blows, using the wrong screen, the light blue screen and printed orange. We tried to fix it, but didn’t work out. Washed all of again and started all over with printing, at red
we noticed clouds in the inserts, rest of the white paint, we tried to clean the inserts but took over an hour per playfield and didn’t work out nicely, we decided to sand all off again.
On Tuesday we sanded them and started new primer. On Thursday we could start sanding them smooth. On Friday we took them to our house so we can start printing. We printed until late at night, also yesterday. Today we could print the last 3 colors.
We are so happy that we have finished the printing and that the colors work out well, good shades. We are just to exhausted from all, a stones falls from our hearts.
Tomorrow we will bring some packing material home from the new facility, don’t want to risk that the print gets damaged on transporting them. We will get them on the milling machine to clear all the (dimples) pilot holes from paint. Then we will clear coat them.
We are scheduling them to be finished and ready to ship by end of July. Knocking three times on wood.
We wish you all a nice Sunday evening
Regards from Hamburg
Ron, Leon and Peter
IMG_0248 (resized).JPG 3 weeks later
Hi to all
It actually looks good. Due to silk screening we are busy cleaning up some colors. Hope we can get the first clear applied next week.
Will post an update very soon.
Have a nice weekend and regard from Hamburg
Ron, Leon and Peter
Hello to all
Here a small video of today’s action.
We are busy milling Bride of Pinbot playfields, They will be finished in a couple of days, then insert gluing.
We are busy looking through F-14, sanding them and getting them ready for clear coating.
If the coat works out well, we will be able to send them out in approx. 3 weeks due to curing time of the clear coat.
This week we will start to sand down the Terminator Playfields, hope we can save the primer work so that we can get them re-printed.
Cabinet decals are in work, will have them in stock by the time that the playfields are ready, actually sooner than that, in approx. 14 days.
It is not possible to send out the decals in the same box as the playfields.
If you need parts like Lane Guides, Star Post of the Bats, we have them on stock and can send them together with the decals.
Playfield Plastic Sets are on Stock.
We are busy doing the final checks on the artwork of Black Rose
and are getting the artwork fitted a bit better to the milling program, re-adjust some factory faults that don’t line up nicely,
It also means that the many layers must be re-adjusted. We don’t use a redraw program for that will just cause many artwork errors.
This and all the artwork is redrawn but hand, hour for hour, days for days.....
Please turn off your speakers or set them low, the video is quite noisy.
Here is the link to Facebook Video.
https://www.facebook.com/buthamburg.de/videos/248529084720730
New updates will follow soon
Regards from Hamburg
Ron, Leon and Peter
1 week later
Hello to all.
Here a little update on the F-14, a short video. Put your sound off or lower, it’s quite noisy with the vents running.
The video is showing the F-14 Boards, they have the first clear coat and are curing. Next week we will sand them again and apply the finish clear coat. We gave them a long time to cure, the first layer is rock hard.
https://www.facebook.com/buthamburg.de/videos/1531450677389241
Also seen are the clear coated Queen Playfields, tomorrow the next load will fill the rest of the walls. Must still build some racks to stack them decently. The racks will store them similar as they are stored now.
In the drying shelves you can see the primered Alien Playfields.
They will be printed next week.
Hope you enjoy.
Have a nice evening
Regards from Hamburg
Ron, Leon and Peter
Quoted from mtooner1:Is it still too late to get a f14 play field ??
Im not sure yet. We are first serving all the pre-orders that paid in full in December last year.
Again thank you for your patients and trust.
After all pre paid Playfields we will give a call email to all on the pre-order list, will serve from top to bottom.
There are a lot. But time has shown that many dont answer or jump off.
Please send me your postal address and tel. no. to peter (et) buthamburg.de I will enter you into the list.
We will rerun them again shortly for the demand has always been high on F-14.
2 weeks later
Hello to all.
First of all, the F-14 Playfields have the finish clear coat on them, on Monday we will be looking over them and will start sending out. We will first send out to all that have paid up and patiently waited for us to get the re-run finished. On the second batch, which is still curing, we will start to work down our pre-order list.
A small insight of our delaily work.
Terminator 2 Playfields. We tried to save them, but it is just much too much work. We have decided to sand them down and start to print them again. In the printing procedure, we didn’t notice that some color did not print out well. It seems that it was too cold at the time we started printing in March. We tries to just get the work done as fast as possible, stated to rush the work for we didn’t have enough time
due to building up the new facility and keeping the production on Alien and Queen playfields up.
We started to mask the colors that were not printed out well and re spray them with airbrush, very time consuming. If doing 1 or 2 playfields, it would be a problem, but doing a hole batch turns out to be a major time problem. So we now decided to just sand them down and reprint them, time wise the best solution.
Just shows again that this kind of work cannot be rushed, and trying to force the end of the production just turns out in a disaster.
Screens will be back at the screen maker next week, boards are being primered again, for safety.
Terminator Cabinet decals are order and should be received soon.
We let the printing company print them, they have the printing roads for that production and we would have the time to get them done shortly.
So the Playfields, Plastics and Cabinet decals will be on stock again.
Bride of Pinbot Playfields are in production, color matching the original and our playfields, we will be offering the plastic sets.
The artwork on the plastic sets is not done with a re-draw program,
we sit for many hours, days, weeks... to re-draw star for star and dot for dot to keep the original character of the design.
Wish you all a nice weekend.
As always, turn your sound low, the video is quite noisy.
https://www.facebook.com/buthamburg.de/videos/684566826581374
Regards from Hamburg
Ron, Leon and Peter
2 weeks later
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2 months later
Yes, I should still have an F-14.
Please send me your postal address and tel. nr. to [email protected]
REgards from Hamburg
Peter
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