I just received an email from a customer who is almost done installing one of my FH pf;s, and it looks awesome. FH is one of the first games people started restoring, along with TAF back in like 06, when I was really getting in to it. A restored FH with my clear and new plastics and ramps is so beautiful. The one I remember the most was done by a guy in dearborne by a great guy named John..... he was good friends with Eric A who is also in dearborn. Crap he is passed away and I can never remember his last name, hopefully someone will remind me. My brain is shot. Anyway they did an amazing job on that game.
I realized I have been forgetting to remind people to use mylar under anywhere a ball drops on the pf. Like a wire form ball return, or a ramp with a hole that drops the ball.
I sell lo tac mylar, that is thin, and basically invisible. It will last several years, and then when you are ready to do your shop job, you can pull it without tools. It is perfect for late model sterns, between pop bumpers, shooter lanes, and ball hole kick outs.
When I install it I custom cut it so that the edges are on top of black key lines. this makes it very hard to notice, also if I can make one side end under a plastic, i will use a bigger piece to do so. The price is 4 sheeets for 10$ I will sell 2 for $5, but you are better off having the stuff around. If you take your game to a show for free play which everyone should at some time, you can put this stuff everywhere. even around flipper buttons. My metallica premium has a big nail or ring scratch on one of the flipper areas.
I always feel uncomfortable when I am sending a customer an invoice and the bill gets larger and larger because I highly suggest these extra things, but I only sell what I think is super important, and is not available easily, or easy to find, or easy to describe. I used to describe to people a list of what they had to go out and get, including wax and polish, but the time and effort to describe everything and where to get it, seemed counterproductive. so what I do is add this stuff on the invoice, as things I highly recommend, and then tell them to just remove what they dont want, and make a note of the new math. If I were on the customer end I would rather get it all at once, and I would rather be sure I got the right stuff.
I had one customer who wouldnt but my diamond dremmil bits because of the price I imagine, so he bought his own. what he bought was diamond tipped drill bits for cement! and he wrecked the pf. dead serious. He sent me pics because he thought my clear was defective. It was not the clear come to find out.