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Aussie Pinball Forums => Restorations => Topic started by: d3vlin on February 07, 2010, 05:45:49 PM
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my next project has arived. taking off were dean finished. (thanks dean).
hear is a few pics to start with.
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first i started to strip the play field while i wait for daniel to repair the boards. hear is pics of before and after of the playfield
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after
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now im going to have to take the milar off of the play field. not looking forward to doing that. and im going to have to keep an eye out for a new back glass as mine in very ordanary
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Good luck with it Devlin, Im sure based on what you did with the TORCH that this will come up great..even better then the TORCH as the starting point is better in my opinion.
Now your brother just has to use his ASS like skills, like he did in finding the backglass for the Bally World Cup, and get you a Time Warp backglass.
Surely someone here knows of a good TW backglass that is just hanging on a games wall somewhere that would be better used on a pin restore! Come on cough it up.....
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PS put your shirt on :lol :lol
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Good on you - there is a bit of love about for TW, a great machine and good luck with the resto.
In the wild adolescent sexually charged days me and mates used to refer to the right hand tunnel shot as the the tunnel of love - in middle age this is how we still refer to it %.%
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It is a good start mate - Keep the updates coming !
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Great machine there as I too have a nice TW and love playing it with 5 bumpers and 10x bonus and 2 sets of targets. I have some new yellow NOT factory blue banana flipper rubbers if you want a pair-I'd love to contribute to your restore.. <..>
Peter
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thanks guys will be good fun making her beautiful again. cant wait to be able to play her. ohn and thanks for the very generous offer of the flipper rubbers peter that would be an awesome help. $#$
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thanks guys will be good fun making her beautiful again. cant wait to be able to play her. ohn and thanks for the very generous offer of the flipper rubbers peter that would be an awesome help. $#$
No problem just PM me your address and I'll wack them in the mail..
Peter ^^^
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Looking forward to seeing the finished results. I saw this machine a while ago and I reckon its well worth the effort. I suspect the mylar (hopefully) will come off cleanly and you'll have a real good game.
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im hoping it comes up clean with out the picture lifting some parts look a little bit odd im hopping its just dirt under the mylar will have to just take my time and be care full.
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best of luck. I have a TW too (my very first game). It lives at a mate's place (just around the corner) as space is limited. But I wouldn't sell it, and love getting around there for the odd game.
And Firepower - we called it the same thing but not the polite version you used!
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im hoping it comes up clean with out the picture lifting some parts look a little bit odd im hopping its just dirt under the mylar will have to just take my time and be care full.
Mine looks the same - appears to be mould under the mylar, the same grubby blotches, so I will watch with great interest.
Also does anybody have any thoughts or methods on how to turn the yellow bananna flipper rubbers (currently available) to blue (currently unavailable) - I reckon there's a knighthood in it for anybody that can tell us how to do this.
Finally, Pinnies4me I was speaking euphamistically to protect the guilty!
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I agree how to paint the yellow rubbers blue? why didn't they just produce blue one surely they sold more TW than Disco fevers? I got some yellows on at the moment and the blues do look heaps better and as my blues where NOS I'm looking after them ^^^
Peter
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Could you use Blue Vinyl dye you can buy it in a spray can to paint dash pads etc !@#
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just wondering what color the banana flippers are meant to be cause they r like a light brown on ipdb the only one that's blue is the one on the flyer. and also the pop bumpers are light blue on there as well !@#
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Rubbers should be blue as I have NOS rubbers-can send a pic if you want me to.
Peter
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Blue flippers found here
http://www.bestofpinball.de (sorry original link does not seem to work so try this and do a search)
Good luck with the project. Would have liked to try it but the prospect of being homeless now for a year or two means no room for projects (building a new house %.%)
I also found some OS backglasses but can't remember where, so will look into it for you if you like??? They were pricey though ($600 I think shipped)
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ok thanks guys. wonder how much the tw pinny will go for on ebay. and i wonder wat was wrong with the pinball champ that didnt sell on ebay. from lismore. didnt have any thing written about it and had some other back glass in it.
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ok thanks guys. wonder how much the tw pinny will go for on ebay. and i wonder wat was wrong with the pinball champ that didnt sell on ebay. from lismore. didnt have any thing written about it and had some other back glass in it.
The TW on eBay, backglass looks real bad...my guess $900
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yea the back glass is stuffed. that means there will be some one in this area looking for another back glass damb it lol @.@
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i have finally removed the mylar and all the glue from the play field. lost a few patches of paint &^& so will get to practice my touch ups @@* trying to look on the bright side. once i removed all of that there is a lot of yellow stains all over the playfield so i have to lightly cut it back hope to get rid of it all. fingers crossed
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When you have time post some more pics *%*
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agree pictures of progress would be great.
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Well no pictures but i now have the machine running all lamps and coils are firing as they should i even made myself a Lamp tester for williams machines hopefully will have coils and input test in the same unit will post a pic later tonight
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ok when i go back over to daniels tonight i will put some pictures on. i took a few with his camera but have not up loaded them yet.
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not going to make it to daniels this weekend. the misses has me helping her around the house. (boring) IM HOPING THAT DANIEL WILL POST THE PICS of my progress so use cann all have a look at what im up to. ^^^
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GEEEEZZZZ Not only do i have to fix it i have to do the restore post aswell !@#
Well here are some before photos of the playfield
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And here is where its at now.
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And here are the yucky bits that im going to have to touch up.
There you go Marcus now have fun being a house bitch for the weekend i hope you remember your apron *)*
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Looks like you'll have to put the Monaro off for awhile mate :lol
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Looks like you'll have to put the Monaro off for awhile mate :lol
LOL Yeah your right but im going out there on Monday to see what i can do to it hopefully twist the old mans arm to weld in the new panel $#$
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Looking Good ^^^
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no you don't have to touch it up im going to do it. your just going to have to fix it up after i stuff it lol. u can touch up the blue patch that you stuffed ha ha. a lil hint for every one don't try and remove stubborn glue with paint thinners ha ha not a good look. &^&
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Looks like a little rust there - may I donate a litre of Rannex to this resto guys??
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Under the playfield some of the parts look to be in Haunted House condition *!@
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Under the playfield some of the parts look to be in Haunted House condition *!@
And we thought we'd never see one that bad again!
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Ahh - The brotherly love <.>
Gotta love Ranex - Still - with time and effort, it will be just fine ! Nice playfield.
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This thread has been making me miss my TW which has been living at a mate's for a couple of years. Thinking it's time to go over for a general service call!!
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This thread has been making me miss my TW which has been living at a mate's for a couple of years. Thinking it's time to go over for a general service call!!
"Return to base" Repair !
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"Return to base" Repair !
Excellent idea!
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i think i still have some ranex from when i needed it for torch. i wish now that i didint try and take the mylar rings off the pop bumpers. if i just left them the job would be half as bad as its going to be now. oh well i no for next time. there is still a weird film over the whole play field. it looks like there are still blobs of glue on it but they wont come off. kinda like there is a clear coat over it so im just going to have to leave it. been scrubbing for ages any more and ill want to &^&. i think its going to come up good at least the moldy yellow glue is off it now $#$
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This thread has been making me miss my TW which has been living at a mate's for a couple of years. Thinking it's time to go over for a general service call!!
i would love to see your time warp and give it a game to see what mine is hope fully going to come up like.
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PM me your number and I'll set it up
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How'd you remove the mylar? I bought a 1977 Cleopatra playfield to tested a few methods. Freeze no good at all, but shellite and the a sunny day seemed to do the trick. I had a bit of paint loss in the beginning, but found that it was more due impatience. Lost little dots of paint in areas again from going too fast. Is that what you found or is it more a matter of luck of the draw?
The playfield still looks awesome and much better than before. The residue if its glue, you try to brush shellite like mad in areas to test if it comes up !@#
good luck with the project ^^^
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How'd you remove the mylar? I bought a 1977 Cleopatra playfield to tested a few methods. Freeze no good at all, but shellite and the a sunny day seemed to do the trick. I had a bit of paint loss in the beginning, but found that it was more due impatience. Lost little dots of paint in areas again from going too fast. Is that what you found or is it more a matter of luck of the draw?
The playfield still looks awesome and much better than before. The residue if its glue, you try to brush shellite like mad in areas to test if it comes up !@#
good luck with the project ^^^
hi mate i tried shellite and heat on my last pinny (1980 torch) and it worked pritty good but on this i tried to use white spirit. but found i was losing little dots no matter how fast or slow i removed it so i tried with heat from a hair drier and it started removing much easyer. but still lost bits of paint. i think most of them little dots u lose are just luck. cant stop that. but i found that the white spirit removed the mylar but left nearly all the glue on the play field. but when i used shellite and metho on my torch with heat most of the glue stayed on the mylar. it could be because they used different glues on the mylar im not shore but there was a hell of a lot of rubbing and scrubbing to remove the glue from the time warp.
i lost the most paint removing the sticky plastic rings from the pop bumpers. wish i new i would of left the ones that were not so bad. ^&^
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Application of heat and a lot of patience is the key to mylar and contact removal !
Heat is more important that anything - shellite is used only to clean up the adhesive residue.
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Well i had a crack at the playfield touch ups tonight and they came up fairly well i think.
Here are a few photos
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i helped @@*
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The green around the dragons has come up really well. The original pics showed bare wood, did you prime it first to build it up or just straight colour? Are the fine black lines done with an artline pen?
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Again using an enamel paint so we hopefully dont need to clear coat was just done straight over the wood and the fine black lines were done by hand with enamel on a brush. All these areas will be covered with pop bumper rings so should hold all these touch ups in place
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Sand it as flat as possible with 1200 Grit and then mylar - key is to get it flat.
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Ive sanded and polished all the green area flat put the blue is being a prick..... Ill give it a few days to dry and try again IM not happy........
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what touch ups?? too good a job to spot, well done
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Sorry guys here are some pics of the machine as it sits. Still needs the cab polished and a few other bits that Marcus can do when he gets it home ^^^
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Wow is that the same machine I had here???? What a transformation...Well Done #*#
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Yep same machine Dean came up pretty well. When i said i was putting the photos on he got motivated a little (very little) and started to polish the cab and cut out his instruction cards *%*
Id started a few touch up on the backglass just to make it a little better it has helped so far but i wont post pictures until ive finished the job
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Has come up very nice - looks great compared to what you started with. @@*
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Nice one Daniel !
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