I have a roached Nightmare on Elm Street that I'm restoring for a friend. Pulled off the mylar to sand and clear the playfield. Came off very easily. Lol
I then Krylon Triple Thicked the mylar to preserve it as wall art. 
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Quoted from uncivil_engineer:As I recall, Gottlieb factory installed their Mylar. I had a SF2 do something similar.
Yes it was factory installed. This one was bubbling , scratched to hades, and planking/flaking underneath terribly. I just thought it was sort of cool to show a mylar removed with no regard to the paint that came off with it.
In my experience no it won't hurt the paint. If done right anyway. I've done this for quite a few Restorations that i have done on playfields. I find the the freeze spray then remove method Works excellent. Then the flour rubbing method Works fantastic for removing the excess glue.
Quoted from QuarterGrabber:In my experience no it won't hurt the paint. If done right anyway. I've done this for quite a few Restorations that i have done on playfields. I find the the freeze spray then remove method Works excellent. Then the flour rubbing method Works fantastic for removing the excess glue.
Yea I've done quite a few myself with great results.
This one wasn't about saving the playfield though
I was at work & a coworker informed me that there was a pinball machine up for auction that evening. I immediately went on the website & there it was a Centaur. I called the auction house & placed a bid of $1000. The machine was roached & I acquired the machine for $500. After much work I finally had Centaur up & running. But cosmetically, the playfield was a zero. So I pulled everything off the playfield, including the mylar. Underneath the mylar, someone had colored the playfield black in an attempt to cover up the worn to the wood playfield. I knew & wasn't concerned that once I pulled the mylar, there was going to be many down to the playfield wood areas exposed. But no worry, I work for a school district & I had access to an over-achieving art teacher w/ his masters degree in art. Here's the results...
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Quoted from Ockeyhead:I was at work & a coworker informed me that there was a pinball machine up for auction that evening. I immediately went on the website & there it was a Centaur. I called the auction house & placed a bid of $1000. The machine was roached & I acquired the machine for $500. After much work I finally had Centaur up & running. But cosmetically, the playfield was a zero. So I pulled everything off the playfield, including the mylar. Underneath the mylar, someone had colored the playfield black in an attempt to cover up the worn to the wood playfield. I knew & wasn't concerned that once I pulled the mylar, there was going to be many down to the playfield wood areas exposed. But no worry, I work for a school district & I had access to an over-achieving art teacher w/ his masters degree in art. Here's the results...
Quoted from hailrazer:Yea I've done quite a few myself with great results.
This one wasn't about saving the playfield though
You going to do an overlay on this one? I wasn't aware they had those for Gottlieb games.
Quoted from darcangeloel:You going to do an overlay on this one? I wasn't aware they had those for Gottlieb games.
That's why I had to scan the playfield and do almost 30 hours of photoshop repair to make one. Yikes!
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