I've scraped out all the white paint, and applied a piece of thin, white mylar film. Cut out the windows with a sharp blade. Looks great, and is just the right translucency.
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Quoted from Runbikeskilee:I can tell/show you what I attempted for a similar situation, but the method was a bit tedious and not as easy as to get nice results as I might have imagined. Basically, I used an old fashioned razor blade followed by an Exacto blade to scrape off the old white area. The old paint/ink tends to come off in tiny micro flakes which make it hard to get a straight line, so I ended up heating the old paint GENTLY with a hair dryer so it wouldn't be so brittle, and also heating the Exacto blade. Then, I cut out mylar rectangles of precise size and positioned them properly on the back of the score window. Finally, laid down some loose masking (don't want to stick anything to the back of the good parts of the glass) and sprayed a uniform coat of some white enamel onto the back. It wasn't perfect, but I went with it until I bought a new glass.
You might do better if you can find a semi translucent stick-on material like you mentioned and then cutting out the precise rectangles with a sharp blade.
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I'd try using some black pinstriping tape to recreate that narrow black border before spraying the white if you're going to use the spray paint method.
Quoted from Runbikeskilee:Good idea JR. I didn't think of it. My glass had other issues that I was unable to fix, such as 4 or 5 faded areas that sat over top of the antirattle pads. I ended up buying a repro glass a year later.
Well, that's the best solution!
Quoted from Irishbastard:Where did you get the mylar?
I just had a piece laying around.
Probably can get it at a craft store. My brother once used a piece of that stuff that often covers new metal surfaces, like on a new gas grill.
It worked great.
Quoted from Runbikeskilee:Sounds like a potential business opportunity for someone to produce white semi-translucent mylar appliques with the pinball score windows already cut out. Of course, different window sizes would present inventory challenges.
I think an even better business opportunity is producing adhesive strips with 0-9 printed on them for score reel repair; particularly the Gottlieb decagon ones! I don't have the technology!
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