Gulftream Resto .. now playable

[Mr Pinbologist]

looking good so far  I'm looking forward to seeing how it turns out!

[goodolddays]

I've been working on the cab repaint over the past week or so .
Here's a couple of pics of where its at now .
There are a few mistakes which need touchups and unfortunately (and annoyingly) I lost some of the white in places when I removed the contact. 1st time this has happened .. not sure why .. so again, will have to touch up those areas too (mainly on the side not shown in these pics. Original had silver speckles, but I don't like those so have left them off.
After touchups are finished I will pull it out to spray with gloss clear so will take more pics then.

[goodolddays]

How's this for a floating earth ?? and the bare wires on the 240V winding of the stepdown .. I'd like to replace the stepdown but am at my $$ limit already for this game

[Boots]

How's this for a floating earth ?? and the bare wires on the 240V winding of the stepdown .. I'd like to replace the stepdown but am at my $$ limit already for this game

Why replace the transformer?
Just solder some leads on the existing and insulate them with a few layers of heat shrink, beats the expense of a new transformer.

[goodolddays]

How's this for a floating earth ?? and the bare wires on the 240V winding of the stepdown .. I'd like to replace the stepdown but am at my $$ limit already for this game

Why replace the transformer?
Just solder some leads on the existing and insulate them with a few layers of heat shrink, beats the expense of a new transformer.

Yeah mate .. exactly what I will be doing

[goodolddays]

Here's how the rewire turned out

[goodolddays]

I finally had a chance to get back to this today . Next job is to finish removing the PF inserts as all had sunken . For those following along I had started on this around August last year but hadn't made much progress.

Today I decided it would be much easier to get the inserts out if I removed the underplayfield wiring .

Have done that and got all this inserts out without breaking any . Have also started on PF touchups.



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[goodolddays]

missed a pic

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[goodolddays]

try again

[goodolddays]

Here's a couple of pics of the playfield at this stage .
Have cleaned it with Eucalyptus oil, then a light going over with ME and Isopropyl alcohol.
Have reglued the inserts nice and level and done most of the touchups (which is mostly around the edge of the inserts).. all edges were worn.
 
Still a bit more touchup work to be done yet.

[Strangeways]

Love the artwork. Coming along nicely !

[deadlydave]

Looking great Dave, the playfield looks very tidy 

[Steve2010]

PF looks "alive" with the vivid colours - great work. 

[goodolddays]

Took a break from the PF to strip and clean the door and trim today. I polished the bolts in my drill with some wet and dry (still have one to do  )

Here's a before and after pic of the front of the cab

[goodolddays]

Update .. 2 marathon sessions later over the past couple of weekends and now have the underside of the playfield all back together and most of the topside back together .

Still to do :-
Reassemble pop bumpers
Clean up and reassemble lock down bar parts
Install flipper buttons, start button , new flipper kit
Clean up and reinstall ball guide etc
A few other bits and pieces
Touchup and seal backglass (may leave that till after i've played some games)

So .. getting closer and will post some more pics soon .. this one will have taken almost a year to do