The Aussie Pinball Arcade
Aussie Pinball Forums => Restorations => Topic started by: ddstoys on March 22, 2009, 11:03:30 AM
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Here is one i restored ages ago and was my first and only cabinet respray to date. This pinball was kept outside under a small carport and had been butchered more times than i could count. Most coil stops were held in with tex screws and the flippers had been moved 3 times and when i say moved i mean a new hole drilled all the mechs moved and longer screws used that came through the playfield. Talk about quality work.
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This should have gone to the tip but the owner wanted it for under his carport still who was i to say no so i started by getting it up and running. After removing the 10 years worth of dirt leaves and other nasties inside the cabinet i straightened about a million contacts that had been bent out of shape tightened up every stack and moving part Rebuilt all the steppers. Replaced a few stuffed coils and we had life again.
So i stripped it down for the rebuild look at the stepper this is the crap i had to deal with. How do you break that??
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Wasn't in to bad shape considering the years of abuse see the damage near the flippers thats the new screws for the moved flippers the screws were visible throught the playfield by a millimeter or two. You can also see the previous two holes from flipper rebuilds. They had even reshaped the plastics to suit there butchering
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Then with a polish the guy wanted it done cheap so i didnt spend months on this tidy up
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Then i got all the globe sockets working again (I hate that job) But its rewarding when there all working
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I forgot to mention the New on off switch quality job the photo tells the story but the funny thing is the original one was still wired up and working they spliced this into the power cord so i guess they didnt know there was a switch underneath lol
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All done now for the cabinet respray
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Well the cabinet was UGLY resprayed in horrible colors ad peeling something terrible. I trawled the internet for pics of this machine and the only ones i could find were on the Flyer and a couple of other reallyy small pics. These are the size i got them off the net so this is what i had to work with
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Then came lots of sanding, repairing, priming, base coat and then the fun part the artwork. I have an overhead projector so i made up a dodgy drwing of what i wanted then projected it onto the cabinet then masked around that design sadly i didnt take photos of this as it worked well.
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and the front
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job well done and this one didnt even come from ME
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All up i think it turned out well considering what i had to work with. Here is a finished photo and the one i got my design from what do you think? And i think i may have ripped myself off with this one i only charged him $250 that included the new globes, rubbers, Ball, Coils, sandpaper, paint, and labor. Oh well it was a good learning experience
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This one was before id met you so sadly no mention for Mark c
hows this
FOR ALL YOUR PINBALL NEED CONTACT MARK C
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Wow.
That is a very very good job. For $250.00 I do think that was a little cheap.
I cannot believe someone moved the flippers, actually drilled holes and moved them. Surely an OP would not have done this... !@)
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Great work, keep those picts.coming,interesting how you use the overhead projector -these restore info's are a wealth of knowledge.
Kev
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Well marty you would hope an op didnt do this but who ever did deserved a good kicking they didnt even move one of the EOS switch so the coil would always be on full power lol
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Hey Kev
If you can get hold of an overhead projector ill make you up a a template for jack in the box from the pictures i have if you like all you will need to do is print it out and trace it onto an empty plastic pocket then shine it onto the cabinet
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That came bloody NICE, considering all you had to go off for the cab art was some small pics.. Well done ^^^
it still makes me shake my head to see what some people do to these old games. i've never seen anyone move the flippers before!! and that switch in the side... i thought that was the funniest thing id ever seen done :lol :lol :lol
some people just need their arses kicking for the dumb things they do to these machines
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Yeah the switch was by far the funniest thing ive seen done and since the original still worked i mean what were they thinking. As for the flippers the only thing i can think of is the screws stripped out of the playfield so they moved them the part i dont get is why didnt they use the putty to fill the holes for the flippers to fix the screw holes?
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Yes the flippers are a bit of shame - but it makes the game easier - so we can't blame the Op here !
The on/off switch deserves a Darwin award
To top it off, the paintwork was a mess.
Put this down to experience, Daniel - you did a fine job for peanuts @@*
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You keep impressing us Daniel,
This is another great game to play - the adding of 3" flippers was common in the early 70s by some ops. They 'updated' their older pins with 2" to make them look more modern. If that was mine would of added the 2" flippers back on the game.
It was similiar thing with woodrail pins of the 1950s - once steel rails were on all games in 1960 some ops replaced the timber rails and replaced them with steel. ^.^
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It makes the game easier?? Thats good to know im going to ring the owner and tell him why there like that. Thanks NIno
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Ahhh so it originally had 2" flippers that makes more sense and yes the stainless on the woodrails poiss me off aswell tony. I have some stainless here off woodrails if anyone wanted to swap and convert theres to stainless lol
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Yes, the game was made in 1968 - all manufactures were still using the 2" flipper.
The flippers mechs would be the same - what the ops did was move the mechs out and replace with a 3" shaft and flipper. If by chance you do get to see this game again have a look under the playfield, you will be able to see where the mechs originally were. Also the original screw holes will be able to be seen.
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This one was before id met you so sadly no mention for Mark c
hows this
FOR ALL YOUR PINBALL NEED CONTACT MARK C
lol
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with this one i only charged him $250 that included the new globes, rubbers, Ball, Coils, sandpaper, paint, and labor. Oh well it was a good learning experience
Let me know if you want to do up one of my pins; at that rate you can do both.
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Mark and the boys have offered me some of there pins to do up at that rate aswell. Damn in going to be busy Broke but busy
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excellent work
deserves an a+++ for the restore work.
keep up the good work.
as for the going tip part remember when you tip it its gone, its gone for good.
so don't send your old pins to the tip,
if they dont want it im sure some one will.
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I agree Beaky
I dont sent much to the tip i find something creative to do with them hopefully next weekend ill get to finish my latest creation for you all to see it will be exclusive to AP hopefully
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Mark and the boys have offered me some of there pins to do up at that rate aswell. Damn in going to be busy Broke but busy
But you will be having fun!!
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Mark and the boys have offered me some of there pins to do up at that rate aswell. Damn in going to be busy Broke but busy
But you will be having fun!!
Exactly - do it for the "fun" and the satisfaction at the end of the journey.
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Yes i do enjoy doing them up and have done a few love jobs hopefully once i catch up on my finances i will do a few more i think DUCKMAN is the first serious request ive had
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Nice work, LOVE the switch on the side! !!@