My first ground-up restore finally done, or at least allmost done, only some small to-does remain.

Dont have any before pics, but it was a good used pin with wear all over, playable, but in need of a restoration.

I have bought many many new parts, including Mirco playfield, licensed decals, legs, siderails, backboard, plastics, display, merlin popper, shaker, all plungers, sleeves, t-nuts, buttons, etc, etc, etc

Restoration has taken about 3 months.

- Floor has been sanded and coated with a satin clear to protect from dirt, both sides.
- cabinet has been primed, small imperfections filled with epoxy and painted about 5 times with wet sanding in between to get a smooth surface for the decals.
- inside cabinet paintet with a semi-gloss black paint - original serialnumber decals preserved.
- All underside parts cleaned and tumbled, some polished.
- All playfield parts cleaned, tumbled and polished to a near mirror finish.
- Decals applied using dry method.
- Both filt and plastic legprotectors installed.
- coindoor blasted and powdercoated satin black.
- Plexiglass backboard with homemade flasher effect.
- Homemade troll eye leds.

As I havent done a ground-up restore before or applied cabinet decals, I restored the cabinet of my Getaway the same way at the same time, just to be sure my choices of materials, paint, workprocess etc was good.
After getting both cabinets ready, I moved forward with the MM, leaving the getaway with the empty cabinet behind.

I decided to go on with normal original stainless rails,legs and black coindoor - know some prefer gold or brass, It was a tough choice, but after all I think the original looks better.

Happy it's done, what a tremendous job, what started as a playfield change job ended up as a complete restore. Things quickly "got out of hands" more and more parts got discarted cause of small imperfections - and why not install a shaker when I'm at it etc.
I kept the original ramps (that I flamepolished) and could also have bought more mods, but my pockets were turning inside out, all those parts really adds up.

I'm quite satisfied with the result!

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more pics

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last ones

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Thanks!

It's only a temporarily location while getting everything assembled and adjusted.
The MM will be moved to the other side of the CV where my corvette is now. The Corvette will move to ..... - well I dont know yet - out of room. ;-(

Regards!

Naturally I'll add a little something now and then!

Prices have not gone as insane overhere (Europe) as in the states - makes me wonder cause just about everything else is so much more expensive here, guess a lot of pins were imported to europe back then.

Thanks!

It has been move to a location out of the sun!
Actually kind of ironic - I live in Denmark - not the most sun friendly place in the world - currently freezing outside with about temperatures 1-2 degrees below zero!

About before pictures, I really do not have many that shows the pin in general, just a bunch of pictures of details I took when taking it apart!
I have found a few of those that shows the before state quite good!

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A before and after pic of slingshot area!

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A pic of the cabinet in the process of filling and sanding - and filling and sanding!

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It's my first cabinet decal job, so I experimented on this Getaway cabinet first.

Fortunately both cabinets turned out great.

Actually the Getaway cabinet was in a very rough state and a lot more work than the MM cabinet.
The floor was falling out, so I had to replace that first - one of the pictures shows the process of fitting the new floor to the Getaway cabinet!

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