Bothell, WA
And a nice new clear ramp! Starting production today.
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Williams, 1986
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Quoted from mof:Eventually, I may take a stab at touching up some of the black by hand...
Is it possible to repair a front-side chunk, and do some minor touch ups in the black without a full body re-do?
I think I'd like to give it a shot eventually...
-mof
I redid an F-14 Cabinet basically by hand. Re-sanded, but left enough of the art for me to reproduce. I saved a before/after photo of the front of the cabinet that was in really bad shape so I wouldn't forget what it looked like before the restore. Cabinet was painted with acrylics then clear coated with Varathane Diamond.
Quoted from mof:Really nice. I hope to jump in on the woodworking side soon... It's all fun stuff.
-mof
I this case I simply "sliced" off the bottom of the cabinet just below the bottom of the coin door and put in a new piece of wood. Can't tell.
2 weeks later
Just one observation from your photos. The long rubber that is in front of the diverter. That is not the correct application. There should be in fact two rubber rings and they should be installed to go around behind the diverter mechanism. There is clearance behind the diverter, between the diverter plate and the back board. The upper rubber should be in the groves on the posts and the lower should be below it.
1 week later
Quoted from mof:The results are astonishing. This thing is playing like a beast now.
There's just something magical about being about 50 hours into a resto, that it starts playing like a champion...
It's now my GF's second-favorite machine behind WW (after playing HS just once, with a score of 1,200,000 -- almost beating the machine.) She's not a gamer or a pin-head, but she has great instinctive timing skills for pinball. She says she likes the Devo-like music, she feels like she's accomplishing something easily understandable with the red-yellow-green lights and making the ramp shot. It's always good feedback to learn from non-pin-heads why certain games hold interest and others don't, especially when the reasons are not ones I'd ever think of.
Adding more blue this weekend... heading over to Cliffy's to try some blue post rubbers out. Will get some blue flipper buttons next week.
-mof
Blue, huh? I'm actually going to do a test form for the ramp out of transparent blue .125 acrylic to test.
Quoted from Lonzo:Playfield seems kinda dark.
Nice work.
It will brighten up when he gets his new clear ramp!
1 month later
Quoted from mof:Hour 70: Box cut. Wrapped. Back from UPS store. Old ramp shipped out via UPS!
-mof
And your new clear ramp is ready and waiting!
5 months later
Quoted from indypinhead:I'm thinking about re-designing and machining the stoplight lamp housing. Just wish I could fine new 5/8 diameter inserts for the lamp housing. I can find 2 out of the 3. I might end up having to machine my own.
When I was first making the ramp there was a lot of interest in a "new" stoplight. The original design is pretty deep to accommodate the length of a typical 44/47 bulb. With the new flat strip LED's that are available, the housing could be made much thinner...more "elegant".
Interesting.... In the photo above, the black wires around the pop bumpers appears to be added. Am I correct to assume that those wires are providing power to the pop bumper lights? Here's a photo of the bottom of mine in that area. A little hard to make out, but the power for the pop bumper lights was provided by routed, stapled braid.
IMG_0331.JPGQuoted from mof:I took the wiring harness to the driveway, and sprayed it down with Mean Green, let it work for a minute, then sprayed it down good 2x.
If I washed a harness down in my driveway today, it would freeze!
In the photo above where the leaf switch for the spinner goes right over some GI braids, make sure the leaf cannot contact the braids. I do recall when I did mine that I put some shrink tube on those braids.
It's a good time to add lights under your roll overs. You can see the two GI leads are very handy.
Quoted from tonycip:yes it turned out really nice.
Hey!...That could be the first High Speed to hit Ebay with my clear ramp!
Quoted from mof:I gotta make sure I have some champagne chilled upstairs. Gimme a minute.
-mof
I successfully installed the second platen in my forming machine .....so I'm on my second Modelo!
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