Quoted from KingHebes:Boom. Here's a link to cdc saying what products to use. There's a pdf at the end of the article. 70% or stronger alcohol solutions will kill the virus. Most bleach products it looks like are on the list. Now the question remains, which are safe to use on all eras and materials of the pinball machine that get touched, wood, paint, decals, metal, plastic.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/prevention.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fcoronavirus%2F2019-ncov%2Fabout%2Fprevention-treatment.html
Im also asking people to stay home if they are feeling ill, or showing signs of illness.
In my mind, using alcohol and/or bleach on pinball cabinets isn't the best solution for the good of the pin, especially if this is going to be long term use. These are solvents, right? Especially any untreated wood, and I guess the only way to find out about how decals hold up is to test it.
I have been using a Windex product for the past few weeks, Windex Multisurface Disinfectant Cleaner. It has the familiar kills 99.9% of bacteria and viruses message on the bottle, made by SC Johnson. You can find it on their website. Active ingredient is L lactic acid, and is apparently a low risk health concern and that is why it doesn't show up on the EPA list. Never heard of this as a solution before all this Covid-19 crap came up. I haven't noticed any problems with it, at least not yet, and of course it can be used on glass, too.
The trick with using any of these products to disinfect is that you have to saturate everything and let it sit for minutes, longer it sits the more stuff it kills. It is probably a fools game to think that we can really disinfect these games regardless of whatever we use. There is the front of the cabinet--a vertical surface, including the start button, coin returns, and plunger, really the whole coin door as people touch everything when they are dropping quarters in. Flipper buttons, lockdown bar and top of glass, cabinet sides up to about 2 ft up the cabinet, too. After all that cleaning, it only takes one guy with dirty hands or a cough to spread his germs all over the cabinet. Anyone that has cleaned an old flipper button will remember all the gunk that was inside the button itself, between the button and the housing. Can't clean very well in between the flipper button and housing unless you take it apart.