always broken nice job!

Looks totally fine. I wouldn't hesitate to make a similar repair.

Definitely would end up looking better as superglue or other liquid glues will show threw the sticker possibly.

Do you have the original plastic and it's pieces?

I had an STNG plastic which was broken... I repaired it with a quick patch:

I pondered on how to fix this. I really lacked the ability to clamp and glue the pieces together... I didn't want to risk having my acrylic glue either not work; or have the starfield paint "run" with the glue. humm...
Idea I have a Laser cutter... the darn thing probably broke in the first place due to lack of strength.

I decided I would bolt a reinforcement piece of acrylic behind the break... and use #2-56 button top screws @ 3/16" to "fix" the break. I could have just cut another piece with the laser cutter; but I wanted to try to keep as many original parts as possible... just incase it becomes a collectors item one day... or whatever.

Out came QCAD:
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I rounded all the corners to reduce stress points to help keep the piece together under the stress of pinball balls traveling at Warp 2.

After Vaporization (laser cutting):
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Not as good as new; but hey... it's hidden behind the borg ship anyway... so should be just fine.
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Underside:
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I used clear to prevent any modification of lighting since there were light bulbs under this big piece of plastic.

Installed:
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That should eliminate that unoffical ball pocket quite well. This was done back in 1998 and is still in use today. 4 TPFs, three Charity events.

my t-2 needed sling shot plastics and the plastics around the skull.i made them out of brushed alum. looks great to me. I think we need a "cheap bastards club". joe

That dam blue playfield plastic is usually broken. The company that made the complete playfield sets, if they just re-run this blue part only. Most PinBot owners would be very happy. It is also not easily removed.

Looks like I wasn't the only one eyeing that piece on Ebay recently as well. Like everyone else I don't want to pay $50 for 1 plastic, and don't need a full set either. I might actually attempt this on my notoriously broken blue piece as well.

I did this on my old TFTC the lower plastic behind the drop targets.

Worked just fine unless staring it you would never know.

Good work. I heart Pinbot!!

I think anything metal on a T2 playfield fits the theme perfectly and would look great.

I did a t2 when I could not find plastics....made steel slings and powdercoated them red. Look great until I found originals to install.

On my Haunted House there is the commonly broken "Secret Passage" plastic.

I took a scan of my broken one, then took a jpg of the interwebs, and Photoshop'd in the missing parts, then printed it on address label stock, stuck the result on a 'secret passage' plastic protector you can get from most parts places, the placed the broken one over it.

Now the new label parts fill the voids until someone remakes that silly plastic.

I found a pic. joe

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not to repair, but had done similarly printing graphics for what was bare clear plastic (zizzle). elmers rubber cement was nice for putting the paper down, gives a chance to float-position it. 2" clear packaging tape went over the paper to give it the glossy factory look, protects the paper and made them cleanable waxable too.

I hadda laugh at the "cheap ba$tar6s club" thing, some plastics do get broken too easily. if they're replaced with some lexan or polycarbonate type plastic that isnt going to break, covered in printed paper graphics protected with tape, it could be an improvement over what was stock plastics. "cheap" or "not original" doesnt seem so important if the new home brewed parts look right and aint gonna get broken. OR light spray adhesive can let you apply the printed graphic to the underside of the new plastic might look better depending how the original part was made (most I'd seen are silkscreened on the back-bottom then a thin coat of white over the color stuff). a little experimenting with different types and thicknesses of paper might get really close to correct light through if lit from underneath.
if I were buying a machine that looked right and had better than original now unbreakable plastics in place, if I werent told about it I'd likely never know, and if I were told, "oh cool thanks" because they wont get broken.
good job wayout

Pbresource makes the plastic, the problem is he only sells it with an entire set of Haunted House Plastics. Steve Young owns the rights to Gottlieb, so no one can or will make a one off part for this. Steve does a great job, I just wish he would manufacture just the Secret Passage part and sell it. He could make so much money by doing this.

thanks again wayout, and really, wth ya gonna do when you just CANT get a like original plastic for something?
I dont think its about being cheap at all, it takes some time to open it up, measure cut and drill, scale the print to be the right size, attach it to the new plastic, then install and close it back up.. might be a couple hours of worktime and end up with new that wont break? that sure isnt anything cheap! same for a replacement plastic if you CAN get your hands on it, how long before it gets snapped just like the last one (grrr!)? to me it seems the better choice to just go ahead and make the part, non fragile and only once.

my own (toy!) zizzle PotC, the zizzlemodblogspot guy was generous to post his little slingshot and island graphics, only had to size them up 107% to fit, laid them down on the topside and tape lammed over looks so much nicer than bare clear with green blank playfield stock.. even better now with white LED's underneath lighting em up. unless you'd seen other zizzles, you really wouldnt know it wasnt originally made that way.

The problem with single plastics is that color matching the fade of every individual machines is difficult if not impossible. It's also just as expensive to screen one plastic as it is to do a full set.

Nice job wayout, and count me in for cheap bA$tar6s club!

Not if you screen a full sheet of just the commonly needed part...

Doh! Good point.

I'm no fan of repair, wish there was a bigger aftermarket for alternate ones.