People always ask me questions about restoring their playfields with vinyl decal overlays. I always reply that they usually wrinkle under playfield posts, or the clearcoat melts them, or they quickly fade, or they stretch during installation making alignment a problem, or something else bad happens to them over time. So I don't install or recommend them.
So last year we all saw a new overlay product that was printed on PETG plastic from Outside edge:
http://www.pinballgifts.com/hardtop.html
This seemed like it would address many of the problems with a conventional overlay decal.
So a customer brought me a Comet and a Future Spa for restoration....
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The next question you will ask is "Vid, why do you restore the Comet in a conventional way?", "Why not repaint and water slide decal the playfield?"
Good question.
The answer is that up until the last few years of Williams existence, they made the most crappy playfields ever seen. The paint is like chalk, the topcoat is almost nothing - these things were meant to be disposable.
Look how 99% of all Comets appear wherever there was no Mylar; tons of planking, faded, chalky garbage.
Python drew so much little detail in the artwork, that it would be a $1600 restoration job to repaint and waterslide decal a Comet.
So that's too much work for a game that only sells for $2500 restored.
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Osirun did a great job documenting his Comet restoration here:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/williams-comet-hardtop-installation