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Let’s see your most dramatic before/after pics

By John_in_NC

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#6 1 year ago
 
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As far as a playfield restoration, my 3 Coins was probably the most dramatic turnaround.

Way too much time cleaning and repainting by hand. Then the flattening of seriously warped plastics, clearcoating etc...

According to the Indiana farmer I bought it from, it had been sitting idle in his basement for 30 years or so.

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#19 1 year ago
 
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Quoted from John_in_NC:

This is an area where my confidence has grown (at least on Gottliebs) that I don’t hesitate to tear the mechanics down to the screw and spring level. I hate working on dirty machines. I used to try and get a game 90+% working before tearing into it. Now I don’t bother, I catch 99% of issues through the restoration process as you are forced to look at every contact, wire, plug, stepper and adjustment. Last game I did was fast draw, a complete rust bucket with every stepper seized. When I fired it up it worked immediately save a performance tweak or three.
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Yikes, what a difference. That filthy stepper unit would have would have definitely intimidated me. Great job.

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#62 1 year ago
 
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Quoted from jrpinball:

There was a thread posted years ago by SteveFury. He took a trashed old flipperless game called United "Singapore", and did a phenomenal job bringing it back. There's a YouTube video of the game he restored.

His YouTube video of his resurrection of a Williams Space Mission is an all time classic, complete with music from the top songs of 1976.

For some reason it’s not on there anymore.

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#65 1 year ago
 
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Quoted from jrpinball:

I remember someone restoring a really trashed "Space Mission", but I didn't realize it was he.
Possibly had to remove the video due to the music (protected content).

I’ll bet that’s exactly the reason. Too bad it was really cool. It was trashed before like a lot of us have dealt with but I remember it had Star Wars wallpaper pasted all over the cabinet and head before the restoration.

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#66 1 year ago
 
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Quoted from mrm_4:

Im in the middle of joining the Space Mission restoration club, progress has slowed a bit but still going. I plan on clearing the Playfield in the next couple weeks.
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/handshake-in-space-space-mission-

Looking great. You’ve done a lot of work. I got lucky and found a very clean Space Mission on eBay a few years ago for $400 obo. Always enjoy playing it.

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#76 4 months ago
 
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Probably my best as far as playfield repaints go. Williams 3 Coins.

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#109 4 months ago
 
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Quoted from BubbaK:

Thats incredible work.. It seems like you like challenges!

Thanks Ken. The Lucky Hand was definitely worth it.

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