OOoooo 8bd club! I'm a member but, just barely and I need some help. Mine is the original cab. Near perfect backglass. Cabinet is in decent shape. Got some CPR plastics from Gene at a show. The problem is the PF is in terrible shape. It has mylar and the majority of the PF was saved but, the paint is really flaky so there's no chance of taking that mylar off without taking a bunch of paint with it. I was just going to clean it up and play on it but the PF is in really bad shape. You can rub paint off with your finger! I've been trying to hunt down a overlay or a repro PF but, no luck. I want to do a full resto on this one but, until I can get a PF I'm stuck. Its such a great game and this one deserves to be revived from the dead. If anyone can help me find or has a PF/overlay they want to get rid of I'd appreciate it greatly!!

I dont have any experience with overlays but, I've heard its like playing a game with full mylar. There's a lot of negative review from people that have used overlays but, I think most of them didn't prepare their pf properly and just stuck the overlay on top of their wrecked PF. I would think that if you started with a fully sanded, level and clean surface you'd be ok. If I find one I think I'm going to sand first, clear and then apply the overlay to the roughed up clear. I cant seem to find anyone selling them or making them anymore so if you find them let me know

Got in touch with Herb and I'm going to give this a shot. We'll see if it turns out but, its going to be better than my planked flaked mess of a PF I have now

Hey Vid any advice on applying a overlay? I know you've covered nearly ever other subject known to man!

My 8BD has a similar look but, running your finger of the paint can remove chips of paint. Its sad that the majority was covered by mylar from the factory except the lower portion of the PF. I think it could be almost stripped clean with a mild Magic Eraser scrub.

On a Playboy I'm working on for a friend there are a lot of areas that seem like the topcoat is cracking a lot or there are tons of ball swirl. I started going slow with ME on this and it handled heavy pressure fairly well. You might see come color from PF paint but, you'll notice that before you do any damage.

I actually ended up using a drill and a buffing wheel with pre-wax compound to clean up a large part of the pf. It went a lot faster and the results were better than what I was getting with ME.There is a huge risk of taking up loose flecks of paint etc, but I planned on doing touch up so I wasn't really that concerned.

This is way down the road talk here but, does anyone know what the original colors on the first release cab actually were? I've seen varying degrees of white on the original run cabinets. I know when I re-stenciled my Joust cabinet people already had matched the colors to latex paint colors sold at home improvement stores. Any resource like that for pins?