Could you guys please take a picture of your service button set up inside the coin door? We have to check the wiring on ours because we cant seem to switch between menus. thanks in advance!

Okay I have to ask a couple more questions.... lol

Has anyone printed a new ion cannon... Not that mine is bad. I am trying to eliminate the yellowing done on the plastic... but it is brittle as shit. A new one would be awesome.

Second... I saw a decal file out there... but I have no way of printing them. Anyone want to help a brother out?

Lastly, I love you all.

Poorman Ian

Poor Man's Pinball Podcast.

Here are some before pics... I could kick myself for not taking one good photo of the entire playfield BEFORE we started to tear it down... ah well. Next project.

So this game was DIRTY! it looks as if one time the glass broke on it because I am STILL finding glass months later in every crevice. Rubbers were nasty, they mylar was cracked yellow and coming off. The pops were filthy. The plastics were all yellow. The right sling plastic had a dinosaur on it (from JP DE). The ramp's chrome was almost all off, plus it had about 3 separate fiberglass repairs. as you can see just left of the ramp someone decided to hammer nails in the playfield as a quick fix to stabilize the metal guard rail... the game barely worked.... blah blah blah.
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Touch up, clean up, tear down... and clear coat.... I used the KBS Diamond clear coat. 2 coats rolled on. Don't laugh at my flipper... I could not get that bolt to budge to save my life.... the alan wrench damn near stripped the stupid thing. I said the hell with it and did my best to clear around it. It looks great, I don't think it will affect anything. Other than that... everything went well. 2 coats of clear, wet sanded with 800,1200,1500,2000 grit sand paper. Buffed with swirl remover, and then with machine glaze.

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How it sits today.... got some powder coat done and starting to reassemble... redid the pops, new plastic cones and of course new rubbers from Titan Pinball. Went with color changers in the pops with a clear housing everything else on the GI is white, with the exception of the color coded stand ups. I thought the clear houseing pops with the color changers will look like a reactor of sorts... fits a bit with the laser theme right???

Right now I have a NOS ramp, so I am in the process of removing the yellowing on the ion cannon. I have to drill out the rivets on the old ramp... I have a pop rivet gun coming in the mail soon.. I will put all that together... I am thinking we need some mirror blades and I can finally turn this bad boy on to see how bad I messed up! lol

Oh and yes those are sling plastics from another game. I am having a hard time finding new sling plastics. So for right now the red plastics for High Speed are working out and kind of pop with the powder coat. I don't hate them. They just don't go with the rest of the plastics obviously.
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Some final things... all rollover stars are translucent with leds underneath that will light up with the correct color. I just thought it would look a bit different and cool.

Nope... got it all figured out. Thanks man!

Are you talking about the flipper button switches themselves? or the Flipper Assembly?

Here you go... I have the flipper led kit on it... so ignore the led stuff. but the switches are stock. There is a black plastic housing the button sits in. I have never seen one personally. But you can see it in the pictures. it literally is loose and just sits in there.

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Where did you get a new plastics set???

Ramp
http://mad-amusements.com/product.php?id_product=321 (you will have to find someone to chrome it) I just left mine black (look at post above)

I replaced my pop bumper housings completely (again see above) but I have not seen any decals for the pops.

Yellowed Cannon: Just use this trick to brighten it back up. Worked for me. Took 4 days in the sun but it came out looking much nicer.
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/say-goodbye-to-old-yellowed-plastics

Cannon is removed by just one screw. It comes right off and you can see the bulbs underneath and are easy to replace.

Removing mylar is easy... but that would then lead your game unprotected. I had to remove the mylar on mine because it was dull and gross. I then clear coated the whole playfield.

Easiest way to remove mylar:

remove glue under mylar:

If you are painting around the pops I highly recommend clear coating then. Just to protect them. I matched them up by eye.

Please just read through this tutorial: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/vids-guide-to-ultimate-playfield-restoration

It will guide you on how to fix most stuff...