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How to **safely** flatten warped playfield plastic.

By yonkiman

10 years ago


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#30 4 years ago

Wake up old thread!!

So usually when I shop out a game, I buy new plastics if they are available. I am shopping out my recently acquired Grand Lizard right now. Even though Marco has plastics, The ones in the game were just a little warped, not broken for a change. So I decided to resurrect this thread and try the method described. First I got 2 pieces of glass cut. 18" x 16" x 1/4" seemed to be a good way to go for my oven. 10 bucks a sheet with sanded edges! I thought was real fair.

Hentges Glass
Address: 1631 Voll Dr NW, Byron, MN 55920
Hours:
Closed ⋅ Opens 8AM Mon
Phone: (507) 282-1769

So in a nutshell, I sandwiched most of the set between the glass sheets, ran 170 degrees in the oven because like the last poster, that is all the lower the oven will go. Left them in there for an hour, let cool down on the stove before removing top sheet of glass. Presto. Flat as a pancake plastics ready to install. Really happy with the results!
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