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Re: Whitewater rebuild
« Reply #45 on: May 20, 2009, 04:55:03 PM »

Hi Bwodie, I will reblue them using gun blue like I did on my TZ ramps here: http://aussiepinball.com/index.php?topic=410.0
They came up very well not as blue as original but much better than the rusted steel.

they sure did, and an awesome job on the TZ
I also have one of those im about to restore, you have great taste :)
Would you be able to write up a small tut on how you did the re-blue and the products you used?
My tspp has rusted flaps :(

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Re: Whitewater rebuild
« Reply #46 on: May 20, 2009, 05:04:45 PM »
Thanks Bwodie, I'll do that in the next couple of weeks mate

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« Reply #47 on: May 20, 2009, 05:07:52 PM »
Thanks Bwodie, I'll do that in the next couple of weeks mate

champion, many thanks

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Re: Whitewater rebuild
« Reply #48 on: May 28, 2009, 11:00:56 AM »
UPDATE: lower PF finished minus plastics and boulders










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Re: Whitewater rebuild
« Reply #49 on: May 28, 2009, 04:30:17 PM »
Looking Good Matt its great to see em starting to take shape looking forward to a game on it thats for sure $#$

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« Reply #50 on: May 28, 2009, 04:55:52 PM »
by jeez that ramp looks new, how about that  #@#

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« Reply #51 on: May 28, 2009, 06:06:34 PM »
by jeez that ramp looks new, how about that  #@#

 :lol Yeah, that is one of the two I had to buy.  Cracked beyond repair unfortunately

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« Reply #52 on: May 28, 2009, 07:53:01 PM »
Super clean, looking great.   ^^^

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Re: Whitewater rebuild
« Reply #53 on: May 28, 2009, 07:55:06 PM »
Nice, if it was me I would be itching to play it. Hope the rest of the 'putting it back together' process goes well.

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Re: Whitewater rebuild
« Reply #54 on: June 03, 2009, 12:55:05 PM »
I had a few cracked off pieces of plastic on the left hand set of mountains that sit under the insanity falls ramp, I decided to use two methods to repair then touched up paint.

Before:

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Re: Whitewater rebuild
« Reply #55 on: June 03, 2009, 01:01:27 PM »
The first method was on the top where the flasher for lost mine kickout mounts to.  This area is supposed to be slightly translucent so I used araldite to repair this area.  It is clear when set and once painted gives a result close to original.

I also used this method to fix the cracking on the right hand side of the 'before' photo.


Firstly scuff up the plastic with some sand paper, then I used some tape over the area to be built up.  I then mixed up the epoxy and applied to the back of the tape.  When almost set remove the tape and wait 5 min for the epoxy to set.  Then you can build up the area by applying more araldite to make the area stronger.

Once set hard, allow 24 hours, clean up the repair with a dremel ready for paint











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Re: Whitewater rebuild
« Reply #56 on: June 03, 2009, 01:02:35 PM »
While I had the araldite out I reinforced several areas where the plastic is very thin

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Re: Whitewater rebuild
« Reply #57 on: June 03, 2009, 01:06:25 PM »
The second method I used was in the areas where translucency did not matter down the bottom to the boulders.  I used an epoxy putty such as 'knead it'

Again scuff up the area, mix up the expoys putty form to shape push into repair area.
Allow 24 hours then dremel into shape drill holes ready for touch up





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Re: Whitewater rebuild
« Reply #58 on: June 03, 2009, 01:08:44 PM »
Now for the fun part touch up paint  ::)

Here is the finished result:
















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Re: Whitewater rebuild
« Reply #59 on: June 03, 2009, 01:14:07 PM »
Awesome work Matt, you can't even tell that any repairs have been made to those plastics  ^^^ #*#

Matthew