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Show us your coin door restorations

By swampfire

11 years ago


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    #59 7 years ago

    Judging from the image of it on their website, the Pinball Rescue early-SS "Bally" sticker is the only correct one out there. There's another I've seen with the Bally logo quite sloppy looking, and a third with an incorrect number of red triangles; there should be twelve of them pointing to the twelve clock numbers, but for whatever reason all the repop stickers I've seen at shows have two bottom triangles pointing to 5:30 and 6:30 instead of one directly at 6:00.

    Yeah, call me a nitpicker but this has bugged me enough to not buy new stickers. I'd love to redo the artwork correctly in Illustrator for anyone with a license to print these, if you throw me a few stickers for the trouble.

    #62 7 years ago

    Here's a couple of shots of the Space Invaders coindoor I finished up this week. All elbow grease, no buffing wheel or tumbler. Thanks to ForceFlow for suggesting Mother's liquid metal polish, that stuff makes the nickel plating almost look like chrome. A prior op painted over the insert plastics with some weird 25¢ stencils, I need to replace those.

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    #64 7 years ago

    Thanks! I would like to have kept the gray plating (I think it's phosphating?) on the inner plate that everything bolts to, but most of that got removed or degraded when I soaked it in Evaporust to remove rust around the lock, so I stripped the rest. What didn't come off in the Evaporust was a real PIA to remove though.

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    #69 7 years ago

    Here's my first Sys11 coindoor restore for Earthshaker. Just a repaint and new orange plastics, the backside already looked like new and just needed a cleaning. I used Rustoleum flat black for the base and then gloss black for the spatter. Next time I'll use semigloss for the spatter as it's a bit too glossy, also I got a lot more smaller spatter flecks on it than an original paint job, but heck, live and learn. Flat black only for the coin return flap. From what I've seen, the Williams (W) logo should be bare metal but I don't want to take a chance on screwing it up; one day when I have nothing better to do I'll give it a careful swipe with some lacquer thinner.

    I recreated and laser-printed the "25¢ push to reject" inserts onto glossy photo paper and they look just like the originals. If anyone wants the file, PM me your email and I'll send you a PDF file.

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    #117 4 years ago

    My second coindoor resto using the Bryan Kelly paint spatter method. He suggests using semi-flat for the base and gloss black for the spatter, which I found had a way-too-glossy result the first time around. I used flat black and and semi-gloss for the spatter this time and it looks very close to the original finish. Flat black only for the coin return flap, which had no spatter on it. Had to fix some hacked wiring on the back as well, but it all turned out great.
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