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Re: my newest purchase - now with pics
« Reply #30 on: December 14, 2009, 09:31:35 PM »
Looks good in the pics mate.

Also if the playfield is fully covered in thin "mylar" it may well turn out to be plain old contact like I think is on my SMDM . Apparantly it was pretty common for ops to apply contact to a new machine in those days .

There's some info about it from Nino and Homepin towards the back of this thread:

http://aussiepinball.com/index.php?topic=3395.30

Yep - we started covering every PF with contact after the early SS machines wore very poorly. There was a lot of 'public' interest when SS pins first appeared and they were generally played well. After 6 months the PF wear was pretty bad. This is in the days just prior to the first Taito Space Invaders - so NO video games were around at all really (except "pub pong" and we had 50 of them stacked above the toilet block!!!!).

That's when we started applying contact to stop the wear. It worked a treat, was cheap and easy to apply and I think even today it would have stood up OK. Removing it - - - now that's a different story!

Interestingly we needed have bothered applying it to most of the Gottlieb SS machines as they just never made the sort of money the Bally/Williams machines did (sorry guys that have G machines - it's a fact that they were pretty crap games as a rule - I thought so at the time and still do). The operator I worked for used to buy ALL new pins and generally several of each title. The Gottliebs never made him any money...........
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