Documenting a refresh on an early Radical. This is one of the first 100 that has Diamondplate. It’s in excellent shape but getting a deep shop/polish and rebuilding mechs, pops, etc. And new ramps from Freeplay40 to finish it off.

I missed pics with the playfield still in, but will have them on the finished side of the thread.

We may make some minor changes to things like pop bumper colors for bodies and skirts and star posts. It will also get an added flasher behind the rear wall plastic. This will be similar type refresh of Sethman Transporter we did last year. Fix a few wiring hacks, cleanup, LED’s and make 100% working. It doesn’t need much.

The supervisor, Karolina, will be doing all the work when she wakes up from her nap. I’ll just be doing the pictures.

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Yes! This one won’t be that kind of major work.

Playfield getting stripped down.

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Stripped and not wiped down.

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Wiped down only.

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First polish. More to go.

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I use these. I start with the Ultimate Compound and then finish up with the Show Car Glaze.

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Polished and waxed.

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It came out pretty well considering. There’s some lifting of inserts and the graining of the wood below. I got some shine back after cleaning up the dirt. I use my drill here. On a new playfield I use a buffer. Too risky with an older playfield for that.

She’s napping. Again…

Here’s the post lengths.

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Cleaning of inserts. It never ceases to amaze me how clean they look but just how dirty they’re really are.

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The targets were fine. Added new foam and the rear target (pink playfield area) will get a brace as this one has nothing backing it. Especially with a flasher behind it.

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The boss after finishing for the night. This is my cue for taking pics.

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Most of the posts are in. Karolina letting me know these are hers.

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Flipper mechs rebuilt. Missing some hardware and a broken bushing.

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Cool things I noticed. The ball lock blue plastic is a blue target with a black spacer underneath.

The sling that was pulled from the prototypes. “Let’s just shove two star posts in there instead.”

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Ball guides (now regrained) and translucent rings on.

Supervisor inspecting some parts and doing her thing.

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Old ramps…

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Decals removed cleanly. I love this Rapid Remover.

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The supervisor is cracking into a cold one after today. She deserves it! She was nervous about removing the ramp decals but she had no issues.

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We went over the plastics using the best colors between them. We’re waiting on sleeves but was able to get a few on along with the lower bats.

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I use this 3M 467MP. Well, er, I mean Karolina does.

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New pop spoons.

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Ramps have riveted parts swapped along with the decals.

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Able to get a few plastics on.

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Added the reinforced target bracket since the flasher is right behind it with no back support. It’s the Stern one that also keeps from swaying.

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The bottom side is about ready less soldering, pop lighting, and pops.

Top side is nearly there too. Test fitting ramps.

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I hope to let you know soon!

Installed the new power cable along with LED’s in the backbox and the 3D printed insert piece. Really great of trilogybeer to get that out to be made.

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Small updates. Ramps are all assembled and installed less the big one. We had one brown tab on one purple flasher domes so ordered a set. Also need to get the pop bumpers installed before laying in the big ramp.

I placed order for new pop lamp sockets so just waiting for them to come in. Put in some new flipper buttons. The dirty ones were triggering my OCD.

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The pop bumper lighting came today so was able to wrap them up. We went with purple skirts on the two left and orange on the two left. They go well with the plastics. And clear bodies from Zitt

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The X ramp was able to go on now with the pop bumpers completed. I used some 5/16” plastic spacers I have for a perfect fit. The stacked washers are fine for a few but that would been too much. Perfect fit for the ball. Highly recommend having a handful of spacers on hand. You’ll always use them somewhere.

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The top side mostly completed.

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Lastly, this plastic came with the new ramps. I don’t know where it’s supposed to go. Anyone know?

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That’s it! Thank you!

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GI testing good!

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Inserts are all checking out too.

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Karolina was doing some pre inspection of her next project. She wrapped up the last of the work on the rotisserie before removing it.

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It’s in the cabinet. GI headers and connectors on the interconnect were replaced too.

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Karolina is exhausted this one so she’s resting in the sun. She leads a hard life supervising and pin work.

It plays super fast. This is an excellent game that I can see the following of.

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