Getting my Domino ready for Allentown today and did a big cleaning and at the end I decided to wipe down my pop bumpers with Windex (I had been using this on a rag on the plastics (worked GREAT!), I read not to use it but also read as long as it's "wiped off" it's fine, well I was using a dribble on a rag, and I guess those people were caking it on with the spray nozzle, and it did work good on all of the other plastics with and without art, although they're done differently of course) and even just a once-over ended up taking paint off and I didn't notice until it was too late.

In most of the spots it just kind of "faded" away but at one part where I tried to get some pretty heavy dirt off it took it all away and thankfully stopped before more damage was done as I realized what was happening. Now I'm going to have to get a new set and new caps, blah, and then I'm going to complain that they were not original to the game. It was a very nice set too, damn it, damn it, damn it...

At least it just took a star away rather than only like half of each part of the design, and the other stuff just looks like bad fade. Sucks. It could be much worse but these things bug me. One time I was visiting another EM collector and he noticed paint that chipped off due to rubbing on his brand new backglass and it kind of put him out of it for the remainder of the visit, I guess we're all one in the same...

Here's some gore. One is a before picture (took this like an hour before while I was comparing bulbs) and two are the aftermath. Thought the red ended up okay but actually ended up making it fade away on the top. Didn't touch 3/4 of the caps but did do all of the bodies I believe, I think besides the issues pointed out they fared okay. Checked my games downstairs that use these caps and they're all worse, stinks I found this out on a nice set. The cap wasn't perfect and I'm not overly upset about that but I'm kind of bummed of what happened to the bodies and this close to a show where I thought this thing was really gonna shine. It still will, but it'll just bother me!

Other than that, I got a TON of work done today definitely for the better (90% brand new 47 bulbs, fixed bonus adjustment, removed LED lights somebody put in the apron ball count (don't know why, they're easy to get to), cleaned the entire playfield and the other plastics did turn out really great. Looks amazing now, just mad at myself for doing this.

Original, after red, after yellow in that order:
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On the pop bumper bodies it left a perfect mark of what needs to be there in "clear". I guess it was part of the stamping process, even though the color is gone you can still see the design of it if you hold a light up to it and look closely. Going to try filling in the blanks.

For the caps, might just order new ones anyways. They all could use a little love. Probably will just get them from Marco and pick them up and pop them in at the show, incredibly incredibly easy to do that part of course since it's just the caps. They look a little "off" on his site, anybody have any experience with these reproductions? Otherwise I'd get NOS from Steve Young but I think at this point in collecting he probably only has reproductions left, but who knows...

I did that twice this month alone LOL