The Aussie Pinball Arcade
Aussie Pinball Forums => Restorations => Topic started by: ddstoys on April 01, 2009, 10:48:28 PM
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Ive found a few picture of my partial firepower restore. Machine was pretty rough when i got it backglass was flaking playfield had bad were in the center of playfield and it wasnt working. I set to work as with all my pins getting it playable before i rebuild it. So i went through Clays and any other web site i could find on firepower. I ordered a truckload of parts from MArcos i think it was to rebuild the driver board and connectors. Rebuilt the CPU with the combo rom mods etc.
AS arrived
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Again im not happy ive lost a stack of photos of this pinball i dont even have a picture of it put together. But im glad i still have the pics of the backglass attempt. All the blue section on the wings was stuffed so i scrapped all that blue away leaving clear glass.
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without the backlight. Show how much i needed to scrape away sadly ive also lost the photo of the full backglass before the work started ^&^ &^& ^&( ^.^
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Once all the blue was scraped away i mixed up some similar blue in my airbrush made it watery so the light would shine through and sprayed it on as even as i could. Looked great without the machine on.
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Sadly with the machine on it looked a bit dodgey the two planes on the outsides worked well just a few panels on the main plane looked shit. But for the first ever attempt at a backglass and using an airbrush i think i did ok (For a hack)
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Love the multitude of different targets, Daniel !
for the backglass issue (when turned on) - Just remove the globes in the vicinity of the touch ups.
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Yeah the targets were cool never seen so many varieties on one machine. This machine is no longer with me it was setup in the lounge room for a while and i was told it had to go. As it wasnt in good enough condition anyway i let it go still get excited everytime i hear the multiball noide on my mobile lol
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Another well loved machine ::), I always wonder how people can let PF wear get so bad ^&^
Nice work anyway Daniel
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Yeah you have to wonder about some people its funny as this machine came from the same place i got my comet and gorgar which had almost perfect playfields
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Id never seen this before on a playfield but it looked as if it was made from two bits of wood and they were splitting. Another reason i was happy to part with it not sure how long it would have lasted