Not a lot to post tonight, but figured I'd toss up an update.
New crate lid arrives
I'd been trying to figure out how this was attached, and if it was possible to remove the old one without totally destroying it. Turns out, it's pop-riveted in place. A drill bit through the center of the rivet, and it came apart. The bottom slides over a notch, the top has a hole the rivet goes into.
Easily drilled out, need to get some pop rivets to put the new one in place and install the ramp 'upgrade' kit. I may have a riveter, need to check. Not used to pop rivets being in pins!
Some decals arrived tonight. New crate decals amongst other parts. Compared to my NOS crate door, the repros are POOR quality. Not real happy with these. Had a poor quality set of repros on my first Scared Stiff, and it looked OK since the entire game was a crappy pile of poo, but on a nice game, they just won't do. Real disappointed I paid $14 for them!
There's also a coffin side decal next to the other decals that is textured like original.
Coffin 'stiff' decal is the same poor quality repro. Since it's only open a small part of the time, I think it'll be OK, but if I can find a textured original, I'll buy it. I also ordered a new plate for the decal to go on, the original was kinked at one corner. I was able to sort of straighten it out, but the new one is perfect.
A nice 8 inch pioneer sub will give the game a little bit of 'oomph' compared to the stocker, which is actually broken.
And, the best part.. I realized I had a partial set of SS crate decals in my files from a previous project. Too bad I didn't realize this before I spent the 14 bucks. Oh well, it supported a pinball vendor and I'm sure somebody can use them :)
