Our Robocop finally arrived safe and sound, and now begins the restoration process! While the renovation won't cover every square inch, the general plans are to restore the cabinet, service all electronics and connections, and clean/fix the playfield as best as possible. We're probably going to leave the old mylar for now and touch-up any bad areas to leave the general patina of the pf (most of the artwork is still intact). An overview below:
The Bad
1. Rough cabinet with lots of flaking and chips
2. Various pieces missing or damaged on playfield
3. Lots of broken or warped plastics
4. Backglass missing red and blue inserts
5. Playfield harness hack job (someone cut harness at some point and soldered back together)
5. Mylar'd playfield with planking areas, paint chipping, and general wear.
The Good
1. Game turns on and plays
2. Sound seems to be working just fine (and it's glorious)
3. It's Robocop
General Plan for renovation
1. Tear down machine piece by piece, document findings, take lots of photos, and build it back to semi-restored state (best we can with available repro parts and whatever we manage to produce ourselves)
2. Tear down top side of playfield and clean it well, will likely do some touch up paint. Thinking of just keeping mylar to avoid certain doom with paint lifting
3. Sand down entire cab, repair/reinforce as needed, fill, sand, fill, sand, sand, sand, sand, and get all the edges back and surfaces flat. Primer and some paint
4. Apply new decal set (from RR). This will be my first decal process
5. Restore speaker panel (needs some glue/filling for cracked areas and new paint)
6. Rebuild playfield with flipper rebuilt, new rubbers, replacement posts, drop targets, pop bumpers, lane guides, and new plastics (managed to snag last set from Pinball Rescue before Lee shut down...whew)
7. Install new side rails (Data East repros). Bought these from pinball center and had them post-forwarded through Germany. Fun!
8. Install new coin door
9. Install new legs with metal leg protectors (went with blk ribbed Williams replacements)
10. Fix power connector and add molex connectors to playfield harness in order to improve servicing and undo the solder job
11. Inspect bottom playfield, boards, etc, reflow solder, check general voltages etc.
12. Find replacement glass or just add trim rails to existing BG (it's not too bad all things considered
13. Design/implement solution for backglass inserts (either cut some colored lexan or use a gel)
14. BONUS: Try to fix warped right ramp and look at designing replacement decals for it
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