Message #95092

[Jango]

Another progress update on my Space Invaders

I worked on the apron and ball shooter gauge and stripped both using paint stripper.  These were given a light sand and I gave each piece 3 coats of White Knight Super Primer, followed by 3 coats of White Knight Satin Black.  I had ordered apron and ball shooter decals from Classic Arcades in the US and I installed these and finished them off with 4 coats of White Knight Gloss Acrylic.  I did notice that the apron decal from Classic Arcades is not a perfect fit around the ball entrance / gutter region and therefore I will need to use my scalpel to cut a little there.  Here's a pic of the ball shooter installed.  I will upload a pic of the apron when I get a chance to photograph that













I was able to remove all ball swirl using Isocol and a Magic Eraser (again I got this tip from Nino after reading through threads) and it worked beautifully.  It only took around an hour and I have been able to remove it all.  The colours (beautifully depicted in the lower playfield) really shine through now

















































The playfield was completely stripped and I cleaned and polished this using my Treasure Cove kit.  I was very happy with the results and the field is really shining



















I rebuilt all 4 x flippers with rebuild kits from PBR and took Nino's advice re installing the Advanced EOS on the lower flippers.


I removed all wire guide lanes and cleaned and polished these.


Each and every assembly has been removed, taken apart and cleaned and put back together.  The machine has all new coils.  More pics to follow in the next few days.  I am not totally happy with some of the leaf switches, particularly the left and right sling switches and I will order new ones and install soon


I removed the faded black wooden timber playfield "fence" around the playfield perimeter and the smaller one adjacent to the shooter lane.  These were all sanded and where there were any chunks taken out of the wood, I used some builders bog and sanded back post hardening.  I gave each piece 3 coats of White Knight Super Primer, followed by 3 coats of White Knight Satin Black and finally finished each piece off with 4 coats of White Knight Gloss Acrylic.  I've installed these and as you can see they look sensational














I started to rebuild the playfield today and have basically used all new parts where ever possible.  All of the bumper assemblies including bumper caps, flippers and red finned posts are new as is most of the screws and other metal.  All other parts have been cleaned and polished.  I've also ordered the new 19 piece repro plastics set that CPR did a few years ago - that was hard to track down