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EM : Show us your EM Pinball Machines!

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#10882 5 years ago
Quoted from NoQuarters:

That Old Chicago looks good.

1 week later
#10928 5 years ago
Quoted from JethroP:

Last week bought HOKUS POKUS to add to my magic (and pinball) collection. Shopped it, cleaned it up, and its working perfectly!

Good lookin pin

2 months later
#11108 5 years ago

On the plus side, if you have a game with broken/missing/incorrect plastics, nobody can tell

6 months later
#11401 5 years ago


Quoted from Darcy:Is your chime unit not making any sound?
Thought it was not making a sound due to an electrical problem, check this out. The plungers were stuck in the goo of what was left of the silencer rubber. Guess that years of some one oiling the plungers, created the black sticky mess. This from my High Hand.
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Did you try adding fresher oil?

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#11452 5 years ago
Quoted from Electrocute:

Single player, love it!

That's called monogamous player I believe

1 month later
#11526 5 years ago
Quoted from Vic_Camp:

Picked up this 1969 Bally Gator a few weeks ago. The game was in a New City tie store in the 1970's for customers to play and enjoy while they shop The previous owner took the game to his home after closing down the store. The game is extra clean inside and out and plays nice now after 30+ hours of work.
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Wow Vic, you're not kidding! That thing looks super clean!

#11557 5 years ago
Quoted from Vic_Camp:

I guess its part luck and positive thinking. I sprayed Super Clean on the cabinet and wiped cleaned with ease. I have to say, I didn't expect the cabinet to clean up like it did, but it sure was a great feeling when the dirt disappeared.

Man, I've never had enough....well, guts.... to try super clean on stuff

I've used it for years, but for degreasing engine stuff etc. Tiny splash in my oil pain and it wipes clean...but I use it full strength.

I'm assuming you must dillute it quite a bit and use it lightly? I'd wind up being the guy who wipes all the paint off too.

Do you "rinse" it away when clean? Or let it just dry? That stuff feels slippery like bleach on skin...I always thought it had to be rinsed.

Or is that asking too many trade secrets ?

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#11559 5 years ago
Quoted from Vic_Camp:

Just remember we are talking about super clean on cabinets only, no playfields, front or backside of the backglass, card trays, pop bumper caps, metal white top arch, any stickers, labels, score reels, flippers, targets and other things. The most important thing to remember here is.......Super Clean must always be used with extreme caution.
When I use super clean and I've been using it for many years, I always spray test a small area on the lower cabinet. Normally the very back of the game first, where the four white plastic sliders are. If all works out there ok, I will move to the very back of the side of lower cabinet just below the metal side rail or near the back leg. There in that area I will apply a small amount of Super Clean to check to see if, the super clean method will work on the rest cabinet.
If I feel the super clean is really working well, then I move forward just spraying the entire cabinet without any worries, but small sections at a time and only if the complete cabinet doesn't have any other areas where I know it won't harm the paint or cabinet. Sometimes one side of the cabinet might have been exposed to a different environment and does have a different condition to it than the other side of the cabinet or other sections are not consistent with the rest of the cabinet paint. These conditions you must take into consideration before applying super clean. Sometimes this is where experience comes into to play. A cabinet with stress factors where the wood is splitting, cracking,spider webbing or bare wood is showing would not be a candidate for super clean and should not be used.
The best way to use the super clean method is outdoors and have the cabinet sitting on the four white sliders with the shooter rod facing the sky. I spray from the top of the game and letting run down towards the bottom, wiping quickly and constantly with white clean rags. Once I see my white rags are filled with the dirt (which happens quickly) I immediately use another white clean rag and repeat this process over and over until the cabinet sections are removed of all its dirt and grime. When using super clean on the head of the game the back glass should be removed and set in a safe place away from the spraying area.
I make sure I never rub a wet dirty filled rag into the cabinet area that is drenched with super clean working its magic at the moment. I keep many white clean rags waiting to be used close by in my reach, so I never have to leave the super clean on the cabinet for anytime longer than it needs to be. The white rags do not last long during clean up and become saturated quickly and must be replaced by other clean white ASAP during clean up.
I can tell right away if the Super Clean is going to remove what ever dirt or grime a cabinet might have.......I've done so many cabinet with super clean (100+) and 99 % of the time it never removes anything,but the dirt and grime.
The factory lacquer paint on the cabinets does not get removed with super clean normally, but beware it could damage the original painted design or graphics. There are other exceptions when using super clean.....like a dried out cabinet paint that already is visible to the eye is a red flag if your going to use super clean and other obvious conditions that may exist. There were times I come across a cabinet that the super clean did not work its magic on also,but not many.
Go to my videos below to view super clean being sprayed directly on cabinet and watch dirt and grime disappear immediately.

Awesome! Thank you for taking the time to write this up. Knowing the power of super clean, I ABSOLUTELY would never try on other parts....thank you for the reminder/warning (Good PSA before someone goes trying it!).

I was always scared it would wipe cabinet paint right off. Mean green is strongest I've been using, but it doesn't clean too much of the nasty....and adding a magic eraser definitely gets down to paint layers (before a lot of the dirt).

You do not dilute it?

I forget if the gallon bottle stuff is same strength as the little spray bottles, or if spray is already diluted...I'll definitely have to check first.

Will certainly watch those videos. Thanks for the links!

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#11764 4 years ago
Quoted from gdonovan:

I use Mothers Gold paste wax on playfields, works great!

I just looked at the last tin I bought and realized I accidently got the cleaner+carnauba combo one instead of themy "pure carnauba" one...hope it wasn't a big mistake

Ohh well, time to clean and wax a few anyway....will be buying the better stuff next time for sure

#11766 4 years ago
Quoted from ZNET:

I would not risk using any such cleaner-wax. There are too many ill-advised ingredients in those products, including water.
I prefer One Grand Blitz carnauba wax.

I agree on cleaner wax stuff. I definitely didn't grab that last can on purpose.

I have had good luck with mothers wax and like the results.

Im certainly not opposed to trying sone blitz either.

2 weeks later
#11799 4 years ago

O-din is back to measuring in penis math again. The math is something like 1.4 x actual number.

Edit : I just did the math after typing and that is exactly correct. Lol

1 month later
#11966 4 years ago
Quoted from DCRand:

OK, I just have to ask. Am I the only one that thinks the fountain looks like something you would by at an adult XXX toy store?

I wouldn't buy it....I can't relax that much...

1 month later
#12040 4 years ago
Quoted from o-din:

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All that and a soccer mom.

#12045 4 years ago
Quoted from gdonovan:

Rampage actually [quoted image]

That is sweet! What year?

#12047 4 years ago
Quoted from gdonovan:

'84 converted over to Turbo II. Now up in Mass with another turbo Dodge owner. It was a toy for my wife and she got bored with it so let it go.

Nice.

I personally don't go for white vehicles in general (just personal preference). But that one sure looks like it was in nice shape. Don't see very many Rampages for sure.

Loved riding around in my buddy's 84 back in mid 90s. I almost bought an 83 years back and still wish I had...but have too many cars and other projects anyway.
Don't we all. Lol.

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