I'm in for a playfield, and I resemble your comment about people with questionable common sense.

I can reach out to John, but I don't know anyone at CPR.

Edit: I sent John a PM, but no luck...he is out on this one.

I was just asked about this. For those that don't know, around 2008 Mike Halse was my main art guy. He has gone silent the last 6 years. I don't have people to do art, & my main focus is to end Seawitch playfields. Hard to believe that over run of Star Gazer playfields will finally be done the end of this year. As the year winds down I want to get going on Seawitch. Anyone with art for classic Stern's let me know. Glass is done on demand.

I also get my lenses from Marco Specialties. You have to use what is supplied from Foremost Plastics. You will be lucky to find perfect ones, usually minor fissures, to long snake like fissures on the bottom. Anyone buying them usually 50 cents or more each. So unless they are totally mangled they get used. I still get the rare person complaining the colors aren't correct for a shade on the playfields. I have to use what my printer does from the file. This has burned me in the past on a few one off glass projects, where I had to absorb the cost of production & shipping.

Sounds like pinball rescue is going to take on the plastic set project. No idea on timing, but at least there is hope.

Great. I'll buy the set I said I would buy and make a shadow box for the pieces and hope someday find a QS to put them in

I had a reply from Lee at pinball rescue .
He said he would be asking collectors he knows for a set of plastics to work from , as he doesn't own a QS.
This is for correct sizing and colours that would be needed, sounds promising though , I think there's been lots of interest in these plastics ...

Great! Now can you talk to him about Catacomb too? I have about 10 names so far.

Noticed that the below plastic was made two different ways. Mine has a clear area for the kick out ball area (now tinted yellow). On the IPDB it has a picture of it filled in green.

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Neat.. looks like an early sample before the manufactures changed it.

Will do ...

I would like this statement better if I already owned one

Ok, so I made some gradual progress in my Quicksilver adventure. I'm still in the middle of clearcoating / sanding the top of playfield - so not much to see there (yet). I am almost ready for painting / touchups but need to wait for the clear to "dieback." In the meantime I wanted to show what one coat of paint can do for the underside of a Quicksilver playfield. Before painting I locked down all the "exploded wood" around the inserts with some 30 min. Epoxy. I also had to line the bottom of the lift bar "hole" with epoxy. It was just a matter of time before that sharp-tipped metal bar punched a hole into the shooter lane! Stripped screw holes (flipper mechanisms) were filled with epoxy - covered bamboo barbeque skewers.

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So I'm kinda curious on where all the Quicksilvers went. How many are there in Canada? USA? Europe? My pinside map doesn't show it.

The serial # of my cabinet is 10618. The front of this machine says 41 /50 (115V). The playfield (before I just painted over it) said 47. I would assume there were more than 50 Quicksilvers in Canada but this was definitely part of a 50 unit Canadian run. Edit: excuse the dirt, haven't cleaned out the cabinet yet...

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I wouldn't believe that number system for Canada. I have seen about 5 here, & none of them had a number on lock down bar assembly.

Agreed, I definitely wouldn't call a jiffy marker scribble an official numbering system. Most likely just someone on the factory floor ensuring that this particular batch of 50 units have the transformers wired for 115 Volts instead of 120 Volts.

Edit: I am only one good cleaning away from completely obliterating that number (I doubt it would stand up to a good scrubbing) so maybe soon you can add me to the list of folks with no numbers on the lockdown bar assembly.

Fun story...... quicksilver can make you the best uncle of all time!!! Had a family reunion at the lake this summer. Had to do it... and the kids went nuts for it. I actually got close to my 2 year old Neice who wanted nothing to do with me until I gave her Pinball.... man the power of the silver ball!!!! I LOVE IT!!

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Haha amazing pics

Wow, it's official. That machine has travelled more than I did this year! I had a chance to see it in Edmonton at Yegpin earlier this year, which was the first time I had ever played a Quicksilver. Thanks for sharing this machine with so many folks, it's great to see these classics out...in the wild

This goes into my "Now, I have seen everything" file folder. Seeing the colors of back glass lit up among the trees is beautiful.

ya was really excited to share it at YEGPIN, and sooo disappointing it crashed so soon in. It will be coming back thou... This game is just too fun not to share with everyone.

I've had two QS but both sourced outside of Canada. One from upstate NY and the other from Europe.
I also have at least 3 local friends with examples of this title (1 sourced from US also).

there is two in saskatoon, saskatchewan. I have obviously have one of them. and sold the other one to a local pinhead,

Mine come from saskatchewan also

Too Funny!!!

Hey I was looking at the Quicksilver Apron color thread and noticed that your Quicksilver has the same jiffy marker writing in the lockdown bar area as mine!

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I will be in. +2

Great job on the back of the playfield, that looks amazing. Hoping to have my Quicksilver look that good one day.

Thanks, I was amazed how little paint there was under that playfield. I was also amazed to see so much damage from whatever they used to drill the holes. Some of the holes look like they were made with a rifle!

One operator's trick was to glue a US quarter for that spot where the playfield support hole is.

Here I am posting in a Quicksilver club and have not put up a picture of mine, she needs some work but slowly cleaning her up. these are when I first picked it up. it was really dirty.

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And here is the Apron, as there has been a lot of discussion about different colours.

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That apron looks like a Catacomb apron with that shade of green.

EDIT: It must be the lighting. The first picture shows the green looking more "correct".

That is a nice looking play field !!

Damn termites

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Wow, good job fixing that up!

Agreed.

Quicksilver back in quarantine...

Edit: Learned a valuable lesson from my last attempt at a spray booth: Don't put the doorway on the opposite side of the booth as the exhaust fan! The door should be near the exhaust fan so dirt and dust will "short circuit" towards the fan without circulating near the playfield. Still need the old "door frame" to reinforce the furnace filter

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I used to believe that the darker apron was used on export games. Most of the examples I've seen in Canada and from European/Australian sources had these. Domestic machines like the one I picked up in NY state seem to predominantly have the lighter green apron. I'm sure this rule doesn't apply 100% of the time and aprons are easily swapped, but it seems very plausible.

My apron, here in France is a red one ^^

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Red apron here as well...

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Mine was black, and came from Cali where it lived since 83-84 until I bought it and had it shipped to me in FL

Green!

Mind the 'before' pic of the apron.

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Its not too bad most of the wear is in the centre bonus area (typical) and a lot of cupping on the inserts but generally not to bad for a Quicksilver.

Thanks all, It has been great reading with what everyone is doing with restores and clean ups.

You need a few more stickers on there, I can still see some of the green stripes.