Today's update
Worked for a couple hours, polishing more hardware. Getting closer to starting to assemble the cabinet.
Repaired the resting brackets - these were bent pretty heavily, surely related to the poor condition of the cabinet, which was not square. Now it is square, so these will have to line up.
Lower bracket has a bit of a rough spot that will cut into the playfield if not addressed
Knocked the high spots down with 120 grit, before cleaning the bracket up. Left 2 small pits, but the bracket will clean up fine, and you'll never see the pits, because they are hidden.
Top bracket cleaned but not yet polished
Brackets to update the playfield slides cleaned before polishing
Ready to install
Playfield slides are next. There's definately something wrong with the lower!
Did I mention someone beat the crap out of this game?
Working at night has its drawbacks. At 1:30 AM, I can't just drop everything and go to my storage to dig through parts. So, the only spare rail I have in the shop is kinda ugly. But, since I need it to proceed, I'll try to clean it up.
Spring is mangled, but I have a spare
After 10 minutes of working on the slide, using scotch-brite, sandpaper, polish and finally a fiberglass sanding pin, the picture would appear to have positive results.
I'm not sure I'm totally happy yet, and can't sandblast it this time of night due to the noise, so I'm gonna call it a night here, if you ever feel like you are cutting corners on a restoration, it's best to stop and come back when you're ready. I need to sleep on this, try to decide if there's a better way to remove the surface rust, and consider if I should just grab another slide from storage - this part would be fine in most games just cleaned up, but I'm picky for my restorations!
