I was planning to exchange siderails and applied heat with a hair dryer to the siderail. The siderail seemed to start peeling off nicely, but then I realized the whole decal from the cabinet is now separated for the length of the siderail and not the tape holding the siderail to the cabinet...
How should I process? Is cutting the decal the only option here and how to go forward with it?
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In my exp that tape is strong as hell. I don’t see you separating the rail from the decal now that the decal has come off from the cab, without stretching or messing it up . I’d do a clean cut with a razor and call it good probably.
Might try a plastic razor to attempt separating them though first, worth a shot.
Thanks! I am thinking the same...
What is the best procedure to cutting the decal? It should be done from the outer side of the decal and somehow one should try to make the cut so that it would remain under the siderail? The temptation is big to cut it from the "wrong side" though, since I can now bend the whole siderail open and see the underside of the decal.
I swapped out my stainless steel side rails for chromed side rails on my decaled TZ around 6-7 years ago and based upon some sound advice from fellow Pinsiders the process went perfectly with no damage to the cabinet decals. See the URL below for details on this process to remove a set of side rails.
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/side-rail-removalinstallation-for-decaled-tz
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Man, I would try cutting the decal with a razor knife.
In the future, get a 1 inch putty knife and run up between the rail and the cabinet. I use a hammer to drive the putty knife up and it separates the rail from the cab. Took like 5 minutes per side.
Quoted from woody76:Man, I would try cutting the decal with a razor knife.
In the future, get a 1 inch putty knife and run up between the rail and the cabinet. I use a hammer to drive the putty knife up and it separates the rail from the cab. Took like 5 minutes per side.
Thanks - I did do that with my decaled IJ and somehow managed to cut the decal with the putty knife and tear it under the siderail, so I was now trying to separate the siderail with the heat from the hairdryer... It should have been the gentler way... To me it seems that there is no perfect way to handle the decaled cabinets...
Quoted from woody76:Man, I would try cutting the decal with a razor knife.
In the future, get a 1 inch putty knife and run up between the rail and the cabinet. I use a hammer to drive the putty knife up and it separates the rail from the cab. Took like 5 minutes per side.
This. I also laid some blue tape right under the rail to protect the decal.
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