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Gottlieb, 1971Has anyone ever touched up a score reel? I was cleaning a score reel and some of the black ink came off, and now it's bothering me. If you have, what do you use to touch it up? Also, are there any tips or tricks that I need to know?
Also, what is the easiest way to make a new instruction card for a game? My game is missing both the instruction card and the replay card. I have a template that I found, but what is the next step?
Quoted from Mr_Pinball:Has anyone ever touched up a score reel? I was cleaning a score reel and some of the black ink came off, and now it's bothering me. If you have, what do you use to touch it up? Also, are there any tips or tricks that I need to know?
Find someone with a cricut and vinyl cut out number. I don't know if anyone has done this. It just popped in my head.
A sharpie or paint pen can fill in missing spots pretty well. It gets harder if you have to restore sharp edges.
https://www.pinballrebel.com/pinball/cards/ might have your instruction cards or even score reel numbers already.
/Mark
Quoted from Spiderpin:What game, would be a big help. For instruction & score cards anyway.
He has Gottlieb 4 Square tagged at the top of the post.
I had a machine that the same thing happened to me. I was planning on cutting new numbers on the Cricuit machine, but couldn't find a cut file. There is a pdf and doc version on the Pinball Rebel site that MarkG listed. I ran into trouble trying to convert to .svg which is what Cricuit needs and before I got too far into it, the machine sold.
I'm with MarkG on this one. I touch up score reels all the time, using new black Sharpie with a nice (not mashed down) pointed tip.
When I mess up and accidently get the black ink onto the white part of the reel, I have found that the best way to clean up the blot is by gently scraping it off with an XActo knife blade. It takes a bit of practice, but scraping off the blot allows you to restore a nice clean edge between the black and the white.
- TimMe
Quoted from TimMe:I'm with MarkG on this one. I touch up score reels all the time, using new black Sharpie with a nice (not mashed down) pointed tip.
When I mess up and accidently get the black ink onto the white part of the reel, I have found that the best way to clean up the blot is by gently scraping it off with an XActo knife blade. It takes a bit of practice, but scraping off the blot allows you to restore a nice clean edge between the black and the white.
- TimMe
This^^^ done it for years
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