Bally pinball legs 1980 -81

[Crashramp]

Hi Guys,

I'm restoring my Flash Gordon and Xenon at the moment and wondered what the correct colour and finish is on the legs for these machines. I'm assuming they have the correct leg type on at the moment but someone may enlighten me on that too. Both the Xenon and FG have legs measuring 730mm long.

This is a picture of the Xenon. They are a fairly smooth sliver grey colour.



This is the legs from the FG. There a darker grey and more of a stippled finish.

[ddstoys]

Origin color is a dark gunmetal grey.   When respraying legs I use a charcoal metallic available at bunnings

[Crashramp]

Origin color is a dark gunmetal grey.   When respraying legs I use a charcoal metallic available at bunnings

Thanks Daniel,

Is that for both games? Is it similar to the FG legs or darker?

[ddstoys]

Yeah bot games would have been the darker grey legs

[Crashramp]

Thanks 

[4_amusement_only]

Nino is the authority on this subject. 

[Ballywannabe]

Not sure there was a lot of 'quality control' on the colour of Bally legs.  Seemed to range from almost black to dark grey, non hammertoned.  Stern were silver grey with hammertone.

[Strangeways]

Not sure there was a lot of 'quality control' on the colour of Bally legs.  Seemed to range from almost black to dark grey, non hammertoned.  Stern were silver grey with hammertone.

+1

With regard to legs after the 31 inch chrome.

Bally EM legs were powdercoated charcoal black - Early to mid 70's
Bally EM Legs were powdercoated Gun Metal Gray - Late 70's - Mid 80's.

The "Gun Metal Gray" is really close to a very dark gray to a light black. Different manufacturers used different paints and the color variations were slightly different. I have flyers of all the SS machines, and the color differences are significant. There was a possibility that Space Invaders was a charcoal black as suggested on the flyer.

At some stage in the 70's Bally shipped light gray legs for a period of time. I don't know why, or for what games, but I have a couple of Bally legs that are light gray.These were painted gray rather than powdercoated.

The argument over "who is right" has been debated over the years, and every time PBR or Pinballlife release a set of legs, there are always pinball people commenting that they are wrong. There's no "correct" Gun Metal Gray, and if anyone believes there is, then they are welcome to sort out the 200 or so legs that I have in storage from Ballys from 1973 - 1984. It is almost impossible to match old legs into "sets" of four legs with the exact same color !

There is a paint I've used which is very close which I bought in a can from Supoercheap Auto. Very large cans ! I used primer, Gun Metal Gray and a clear. Cost me $70 in paints and I re painted 3 sets.

PowerPlus Etch Primer PK0060
PowerPlus Gun Metal Gray PK9190
PowerPlus Clear PK0100

This is the closest I've got to an original color - but it is lighter than the PBR Legs.

[Crashramp]

Thanks for that. My Flash Gordon legs sound like there an original or close to colour but probably not the Xenon legs.