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Vid's Guide to Ultimate Playfield Restoration

By vid1900

11 years ago


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Post #7 Playfield damage assessment. Posted by vid1900 (11 years ago)

Post #8 Insert damage assessment. Posted by vid1900 (11 years ago)

Post #34 How to sand your new inserts flat. Posted by vid1900 (11 years ago)

Post #35 Cleaning old glue out of the insert holes. Posted by vid1900 (11 years ago)


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#2565 8 years ago
Quoted from vid1900:

That is the nicest looking green penis I've ever seen.

<cannot unsee!>

1 week later
#2604 8 years ago
Quoted from jimy_speedt:

One more time, thanks a lot vid1900 for the extremely helpful documentation. I do not have all of the tools and materials to make a perfect job, but I am using lot of things.

Give it time - my collection of tools has slowly grown over the several months it's taken me to read and absorb all of this. Vid really should get a commission.

4 months later
#2995 7 years ago
Quoted from Jtslade:

Does anyone have any good Airbrush tips and tricks / cleaning links or vids.
I found one on Youtube that seemed relevant but I really haven't starting using my HB airbrush yet so not sure how relevant it is..
» YouTube video

I found this site useful when I recently got my first airbrush... http://www.airbrushguru.com/cleaning-your-airbrush.html

1 month later
#3197 7 years ago
Quoted from vid1900:

Be sure you clean out the little trap at the bottom of the washer afterwards. If your wife finds a few little screws in there, she will know something is up.....

Possibly the most important tip in this whole thread?

2 months later
#3449 7 years ago
Quoted from vid1900:

I'm still abroad, putting the demon in democracy.
One day I'll quit, get fired, or be killed.
If it's one of the first two scenarios, I'll have all the time in the world to restore more playfields

Be safe Vid, we don't want to see you adding to the Clinton Body Count (tm)

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#3464 7 years ago

The following is untrue, as pointed out a couple of posts below this one.
>
>BTW, for any Kiwi readers who were as confused as I was when I started reading this thread, Napthha is turps (mineral turpentine) >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_spirit
>
>Hashtag tastygoodness
>

#3471 7 years ago
Quoted from vid1900:

Before everyone starts going crazy, Naphtha is NOT Turpentine
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Turpentine is an oily solvent that takes a long time to evaporate.
Naphtha evaporates quickly, leaving nothing behind.
In NZ, it appears that Fuelite is Naphtha (at least according to the 1999 data sheet):
https://www.mitre10.co.nz/shop/andrew-fuelite-1-litre-clear/p/362007

Thanks Vid! Your knowledge truly knows no bounds

2 years later
#6691 4 years ago
Quoted from Atari_Daze:

https://www.harborfreight.com/quick-change-airbrush-kit-93506.html
10.99 - 20% coupon, $8.79 - I've worked on 6 machines with this one item.

That's an interesting nozzle design - does it blow air across the top of the paint jar? It says that it doesn't require cleaning the nozzle between colours.

Cheers for the link.

6 months later
#6841 4 years ago
Quoted from MurphyPeoples:

Has anyone ever taken all of just Vid's posts from this thread and consolidated them into one file for download?

Yes, bleargh did this a few years ago. It's on a dropbox folder linked from this post
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/vids-guides-pdf-version

6 months later
#7006 3 years ago
Quoted from CryptKeeperAUS:

Well ready to give it a go hopefully the first of many..
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#GarageEnvy

2 months later
#7102 3 years ago

The big art store in Wellington also recommends Golden, and I've got myself a copy of Michael Wilcox's book "Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green", which is a great help in understanding how colour pigments work at the photon-level, and how to mix colours based on that knowledge. I'll be learning my way on a '69 Miss-O which got it's first mist-coat of Dulux Duramax (2PAC in a spraycan) last weekend. This will be a wall art project, so the clearcoat won't have to deal with silverballs.

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