Alright so I sit here tonight knee deep in playfield work. Doing a few of these at the same time so I figured I would throw them all up in one thread.

My view tonight:image.jpg

So what we have is a Pinbot done and awating the arrival of its cabinet and owner this weekend to put back in and play test it. On the rotisserie is a BoP. On the wall is a T2 and a MB. In the closet is a finished Freddy that you can't see and on the far right is a "donor" BoP

-Jim

On the rotisserie tonight is a BoP. Freshly pulled Mylar but glue is still on. For some reason some one robbed the center insert out of this game.

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Glue is off. image.jpg

Lets go take a look at our donor playfield that is just too far gone and get a new center insert for our other one. image.jpgimage-849.jpgimage-660.jpg

Ceter insert in its new home. image.jpg

A little alcohol and magic eraser and we are as cleaned up as this is going to get. Looking much better now.

Tomorrow I will re level all the large inserts in the big wheel and sand out the shooter lane. Then we can put this one to the side for awhile. image-833.jpgimage.jpgimage-881.jpg

Goo Gone and flour. Dust it with flour. Must with gel goo gone. Roll a pile of flour over the glue and roll the glue right off. Safest method for these older games. No scraping and losing more paint.

WPC era games(clearcoated) I use a strong orange base chemical degreaser. Let it sit for a few seconds and comes right off with a plastic razor blade. This stuff will take paint and varnish off the system 11 and earlier games. Will post a picture of the product when I clean the glue on MB and T2.

-Jim

For raised inserts like these that are still flat I go with this method:

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If its a cupped insert I will still fill it clear coat to level it. System 11 games usually don't have cupped inserts. Its more EM and real early SS games.

-Jim

Depends on the year of the game. I know I have a hook that is. Says diamond coat on the lower part of the playfield. BTTF might be before they started tho. I will get a picture to show you the logo I'm talking about.

-Jim

Now here is how I do it in clearcoated games

Spray this:

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Wait 5 minutes. Scrape with a plastic razor very lightly and 10 seconds later you have this.

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Here is the condition of the monster bash.

Bit of shooter lane wear.

Some popped up screw holes around drac assembly from some one using too long of screws.

Darcy track wear and mosh pit scoop wear

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Yeah. The older the game the quicker it can go horribly wrong. System 11's you may get lucky but if you leave it on there a minute too long its going to fun up the finish on the playfield and make a mess.

-Jim

Very important.

Although I would recommend a different version of harpoon. That cranberry harvest wasn't a good choice.

-Jim

Bop shooter lane sanded. Needs a bit more on the top skill shot groove

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Its comming. Just prepping and cleaning all 3 at once. Then BoP will sit to the side for a bit while I tackle T2 and MB.

T2 pre cleaning. Just pulled the Mylar. image-662.jpgimage-564.jpgimage-913.jpgimage.jpgimage-124.jpgimage-949.jpg

It's actually pretty rough. Banana insert is messed up and sharpied. Big screw pops around the pop bumpers as bare wood. Lots of raised inserts. Going to be a lot of work redoing the flourencents. image-712.jpgimage-460.jpgimage-990.jpgimage-223.jpgimage.jpgimage-952.jpgimage-604.jpg

-Jim

Not too much to show there. Playfield just had a couple tiny spots by the boiler saucer. Full playfield mylar. Freeze spray would not touch it. Hair dryer worked wonderfully and left very little glue behind. Once that was pulled a couple tiny black spots on the keylines of inserts was all it needed.

-Jim

Will definitely be seeing you this week to take you up on that offer. Curious to see some of my orginal work again.

Sure thing. Just need to find a blank replacement center insert. I will measure the size and see if any vendors have one in stock.

-Jim

Going with KoolMoe on this one. Its great for cleaning wiring harness'. Use to be much better before it was branded with the black magic. Still pretty caustic and toxic stuff. I wouldn't bother with it on a playfield. Magic eraser and 92% alcohol do just fine getting all the ball swirls out and isn't as harmful to the wood with very little water in it.

I do have a bunch of playfields lying around. Most are restorable so I hold onto them. I may have an F-14 thats missing a vast majority of the artwork that I may be willing to let go.

-Jim

Pinbot left Sunday. Pinballerchef made the long drive with his cab and we loaded the playfield in. Quick hours of adjusting and tweaking. A bit of playing and he was back on the road.
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Back to more playfield cleaning now.

-Jim

Needs some touchups and some repaints in discolored areas from Mylar removal. I'd like to get a stable coat of clear on it before I go to much further as its real easy to do more damage and lift some paint when masking on the older playfields. The owner of the bop wants to clear it themselves so it will be going into there hands for a bit when they are moved into their new place. Otherwise I would base clear it when I clear T2 ant MB.

-Jim

A bunch of magic erasers a bunch of alcohol(of more than one kind) and its clean. Now we need to remove the white film left by the magic eraser. image-217.jpgimage.jpg

A tag with some Naptha cleans the magic eraser dust right up. Now we are left with a fairly dull surface.

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Next is like to sand the playfield nice and flat and clean up some areas like saucers and the shooter lane but we have some raised inserts to deal with again. Mostly the big rectangular ones leading to the two ramps.

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Inserts back in place.

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