Absolutely take your time. have fun with it (thats taking your sweet time). Its going to look and play amazing.

If anyone buys a new/nos pf before 9 am tuesday morning, I will throw in a heavy duty ship crate, and an install kit.

Most are listed at pinballplayfieldskruzman.com

Not listed are DE playboy 1500
tommy 1000
Batman 66 900
rocky and bullwinkel 1700
sharkys shootout clearcoated 1500
space shuttle cpr 950
seawitch 950
TNA 750
space station nos (needs a little work) 750 as is.
Prices subject to change when listed on web site.

Trying to get pf stock organized.
also found a CRP TAF silver from the original screen run. cant find one flaw except a couple little dusties in the clear coat $ 1100

So far 2 of the last 4 pfs I have finished, needed to be cleaned, sanded and reshot, then block sanded and polished again. It puts everything else behind including the pf I am working on.
This Iron Maiden needed to be redone, because I didnt like the final coat a nd you cant see a really small issue until you get to the end of the polishing. If I shipped them just sprayed you would never notice the flaw, but once its block sanded and polished you can notice the smallest flaw.
NOW this pf is perfect. I love it, and the customer was very cool about the extra time it took.

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I want to thank the best sister in the world for lending me the money for this. Kristine Hood, you do rock!!!
My back hurts too bad to lift it to get the back legs on, which is making me crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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In the last 18 months, stargazer, 9 ball, and quicksilver are without a doubt the most popular jobs. It works for me because I love all 3 of those titles and I have never owned one of them. I bought my first pin in 1982-83, and I though I owned almost all of the classic sterns. Nope. I have said it before, but I would love to play this game when it is done, mostly to play with the ball speed, due to stern using big coils, and zero friction resistance on the pf.
In fact this one goes home with a quicksilver I completed about 7 weeks ago.

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Will the owner of the stargazer and quick silver send me an email with your ship info and phone number please.

As you will notice the living room has a full wall of anderson window walls, from floor to ceiling, to bring the outside green and river, and all of the wildlife in with you. Its a truly beautiful view.

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Thanks, the acdc is temp, while my sis goes thru the crap she is going thru. I tell everyone I will baby sit or store your games... no charge.
The godzillia is almost overwhelming. except for the mechanzilla, and dropping the building, I dont know what I am doing. Its surreal when I think about how much money is sitting there. If the past is a forcast of the future, I will prob sell it after I get it paid off in a couple years, and get something like a restored black hole, or something really hard to play, but half the price at least.

So I mentioned that I am trying a new thing, which is to throw in one at a time, used pf's in to my work load. Restore them and put them on the market. For 2 reasons: to cover pfs that are not reproduced and you cant get NOs, and of course the other it to keep my painting and restoration skills current. I realized that you loose that ability when you dont use it for 6 years.
So I finished the Indy 500 that sold

I still have the Rocky and Bullwinkle which is complete

and the sharkys shootout needs 2 more coats, and block/polish and its done.

I just got the next pf. I paid way too much for it, (400 plus ship)but its a game that often has a lot of wear, and I dont see that often. Last Action Hero. My buddy chris has one, and they are one of those games that the license does nothing for me, (like all marvel, hobbit, and pirates of the Caribbean) but the game is sweet!

I also use colors on my template. I make a sticker out of like 5 pieces of tape and I write out the legend. I make notes of which sides are lined up, and where I stand when I drilled the holes, because that will make a slight difference to stand in the same place when drilling the pf.
Also I like to start out with a small drill bit, and work up for the big holes. plus plexi soesnt like to be drilled with wide bits.
I like these Bosch drill bits. I found that I am best off buying bits made in america or germany. a cheap set will be smoked in one job. They break, and dull super fast, if not all ready. The clear dulls them fast.
So use that dremmil on slow speed. I just ordered some more coarse burr bitts for the install kit, and I am going to include a couple of them as well as the regular 120 grit.

If you need new bits, or any other parts of the kit, just get a hold of me and I will hook you up.

I would appreciate if people who use the kit would let me know which bits they preferred, and if it would be good to have that bit be more coarse. I only use the slow speed on my dremmil in this app.

I found another use for the install kit. I had to remove some inserts on a nos high speed and a nos whirlwind. Both titles are notorious for lifted inserts. So I had to pull 5 between the 2 pfs, and on both pf's they were all the long triangles (thing high speed). Anyway after U removed them I use one of the barrel bits from the kit on the insert hole. I put it on top of the lip the insert rests on, used a coarse bit and that removed the glue. when I use an exacto for this job, I often cut and chip the pf edges around the hole, and thats no good.

Since both of those pfs are over 35 years, I also have a procedure to epoxy the inserts from behind to lock them down for the next 30 years.

So with your template taped to your pf like that, I suggest using the dremmil before predrilling, and you wont be able to dremmil with the template on, so I would dimple everything with a small bit, then remove the template and dremmil off the clear to the size you will need them drill. It will look much cleaner to dremmil the clear away before drilling in to it.

Many people dont like installing my clear because when you do more thickness than a production clear, you can have chips or just not really clean holes. Unless you use the dremil and install kit to remove a small spot of clear, then drill.
so it adds time, and pros dont like that, but its one or the other. if you want a surface that is going to stay like glass, it has to be thick enough.

I mostly use the pointed cone bit and then after, i use the flat head barrel to make the hole bigger.

I strongly suggest micro fiber towels on my clear coat.

"you're a towel!"

Will do on the CP pf. There are a lot of nos floating out there. I think the went out of biz while making that title, because there were a lot of extra pfs sold at expo a couple years later. ( a large pallet for 20 bucks each).

I got a bunch of nos pfs that havent hit the website yet
gottlieb 007 NOS
gottlieb pink panther NOS
gottlieb incredible HULK NOS

Bally Medusa CPR gold repro
Stern Tron NOS
JJP Guns n Roses NOS le

WMS DEMO MAN nos cleared by me

I havent priced them yet or taken pics. Send me an email if interested in any before I have tommy put them up on the website (pinballplayfieldskruzman.com)

I know someone has been waiting patiently for this pf to be done. Its as good as it gets. I cant imagine how smooth the play will be on the plank! wowza!
This is one of the few remaining NOS pfs. it wont be long at all before there are no more. This is going to be a game that I doubt will ever be on the for sale market.
enjoy!

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So here is some amazing news. I have a customer that got spare pfs for all of his games, and had me clear them. He called and said he is interested is selling some, so they get used rather than just sit. Most are nos though some are repros. There are so many I would have to check if you are interested. we havent come up with prices, but that is coming soon. I have been super busy with pf work, but also getting the compound ready for winter, which meant cutting, splitting and stacking 25 face cords of wood, cutting up 6 trees that fell since late summer, and of course the leaves. anyway.. here are some, and I will post more soon. contact me if you have interest. REMEMBER, THESE PFS HAVE ALL BEEN CLEARED BY ME ALL READY between 2-4 years ago.
Simpsons pb party
Breakshot
T3
Fish tales
metallica prem
no good gophers
safecracker
kiss nos
IJ nos
TZ repro
I500
roadshow
champ pub
FH
TAF MB
MM
More coming soon if you are interested in one, say its the NGG, but only if nos, just write me and I will ask, and he will investigate the pf. Most are nos, but its been so long I dont remember. Come to think of it, I cleared for him for like 2 years before he started to consider a repro pf.
I wouldn't be involved if they were going to be priced insane, but this is no fire sale at all. We just want to see some of them installed. Stay tuned for more info.

i WILL SAY IT AGAIN. ALL HAVE BEEN CLEARED BY ME. I am sure I will still get that as the first question.

Of the pfs I mentioned, I checked on the IJ, safe cracker, road show, champ pub, I 500. all are NOS.
There is no mini pf for the IJ

I didnt realize you were so far ahead of the game, I still want to do 2 more coats on that mini, but I will keep it in the front.

I see some really high quality installation work. A while back i was looking at a thread that one of the premier restorers writes, and he was installing one of my pfs. No dremmil, no predrill, just crank'n those screws in with the cordless driver. It looked horrible, I mean embarrassing. Of course it was all my fault, and all of the followers were posting, "wow, I wont be using kruzman, he sucks, why is his work so bad, and so many people love it?" That was the last time I ventured outside this thread.

I have a favor to ask. I am having trouble finding some people I have questions for, that have pfs here. Please make sure the title of your pf is the first word in the subject. Remember I am 55, and I got 2 college degrees without using a computer. Graduated in 91 when some people were getting word process programs for their computers, and dot matrix printers.

I am working on a used BSD, will the owner get a hold of me again? also a quick silver.

I got more than 50 emails yesterday on the collection of WPC nos pf, plus my usual 30-40emails, so I am a bit scattered on keeping track of names. I really appreciate it. thank you

Here is some good news concerning the WPC pfs.
here is the email of the owner. The reason he is going thru me is he knew I wanted my stuff to go to good homes.. Please first mention you are one of my people. I would very much appreciate that.

[email protected]

His name is chad. I can say confidently that there is no chance of a rip off , scam or anything else.
Here is the letter he wrote this morning, when I said there is so much demand that I cant sell these without having them here to answer questions.

"I can send pictures as you need them. You’re welcome to share my email if your listing what’s available for me. My main objective was to make sure the playfields of high interest end up where you like them. Anything received that doesn’t meet a customer’s expectations will be refunded in full plus shipping. Listing them all might be fun to watch, I’ll handle shipping and whatever questions need my attention. "

So go ahead and get a hold of him.

Looks great tommy!!! How many stargazers have you done now?

So I Wonder:

I have always wanted to ask Paul Faris about this so if any of you know him, maybe you could ask.
At christmas 1979 the movie, Alien came out. I was 12. May parents were divorced and every other weekend it was party time at my dads. he loved the movies, and I dont think he ever noticed the rating system. Never once did he say, "maybe this is a little too rich for the kids" (my sister was 10)
So we went to every rated r movie that came out, plus he was one of the first owners of a vcr, so we has that too. I made it thru alien, in the packed theatre, but just barely. I have no idea how my sister did it.

Bally released space invaders about 2 months later in march of 1980. The game has Gieger or geigier inspired artwork, who did the art for the movie, but it is only on the inserts of the pf, that shows any reference to the video game space invaders. In fact its such an easy swap. They could have changed that game from alien to SI on 45 minutes. I have always wanted to know the story. maybe they couldnt get the license, and midway owned space invaders I think.

The pics are a cpr repro that I prepped for its last coat.
This week I prepped every pf here for spray, plus there 3 ready for hand block and polish, and 3 more ready for polish

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I didnt see one. he is mostly a dmd collector, though he has a FH and kiss

here is crappy pics of NOS pfs some people may have never seen before.
The art on incred hulk is insane!!! I used to have a hulk lunch box. It was back when the show was on tv, . Every episode ended with this haunting beautiful piano song, and him hitch hiking to a new place.

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I realized I didnt get around to listing the rest of chads pfs that are for sale. All of them have been cleared by me. besides what I listed previously there is:
Monster bash NOS
Medevil. Madness nos
wiz of oz
walaking dead
ac/dc prem
Attack from mars nos
Lord of the rings
Shadow
monopoly
Pirates of the Caribbean
No good gophers
spiderman
iron man

Here is a copy of what I listed all ready
Simpsons pb party
Breakshot
T3
Fish tales
metallica prem
no good gophers
safecracker
kiss nos
IJ nos
TZ repro
I500
roadshow
champ pub
FH
TAF
MB
MM

Again, not a fire sale, but some titles are very hard to find, and I often get emails looking for them. the sellers name is chad and here is his email again
[email protected]

Wow! is that an original space invaders? when I was in about 5 and 6th grades, I had no issue walking or riding my bike, over 2 miles to the party store that had Space invaders and then asteroids. I think there has only been one time in history, when coin op vid games were making so many quarters that the coins boxes filled to the top and jammed the mech.
I love quarters.
Considering that H.R. Gigers work was part of a popular movie, and sort of a style of Horror, it has by no means lost any of its artistic relevance. It still blows people from new generations away, and brings forth, so much emotion. No aspect of his work seems dated or passé.

I didnt know that they found the BG as copywrite infringement. I would think that would only be when reproducing a particular work, not style or subject. Like in music, you have to steal a chord progression, or lyrics, otherwise every metal artist would be sued by Sabbath.

I only have one book on HR Giger, so I dont know all of his work or even close. So I dont know if bally came too close to copying one of his works or sKetches(which are amazing).

I would just like to read some of the memos or hear the convos to Faris about "we didnt get the licence for alien. Can you make it Space invaders?"