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playfield cleaning technique
« on: August 10, 2009, 11:04:57 PM »
found this in Belgium. Is this for real or what??? Anyone with a MB or MM or BBB want to give it a try?

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Re: playfield cleaning technique
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2009, 12:37:30 AM »
wtf  ^&^ ^&^ ^&^ ^&^
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Re: playfield cleaning technique
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2009, 12:43:44 AM »
 it looks really like this old playfield has been made into a coffee table.....unless i am mistaken ?  Imagine it sitting down on its metal legs n flat...it has to be a coffee table , surely  (or the owner has been smoking a bit too much belgium pot) !!!! ^&^ ()
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Re: playfield cleaning technique
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2009, 05:28:55 AM »
if you don't water them they won't grow  %.%

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Re: playfield cleaning technique
« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2009, 06:21:41 AM »
Ive heard of people taking them down to the local car was and giving them a spray never actually seen some one hosing one down  !@#

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Re: playfield cleaning technique
« Reply #5 on: August 11, 2009, 08:57:30 AM »
thats just mad, who would even think of doing that  @.@

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Re: playfield cleaning technique
« Reply #6 on: August 11, 2009, 09:39:46 AM »
Looks nice and clean now though :D

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Re: playfield cleaning technique
« Reply #7 on: August 11, 2009, 09:50:34 AM »
with those huge rails underneath... is that a pin2k playfield?

Even if staged, that is a more scary image than any horror movie I have ever seen!

I'm sure worse has been done by those who "are not in the know" about these things... sadly...

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Re: playfield cleaning technique
« Reply #8 on: August 11, 2009, 11:32:41 AM »
It is a RFM pin2000 playfield and this guy set up a thread of the resto. He has the final photos of the game in action. Not to try and be funny (and no bullshit) but the actual monitor photos seem to be washed out in colour. Coincidence I guess  %.%

Check out all the photos especially page 2 for the washed out monitor shots  and I just noticed the washing of pcb's using the playfiled clean method

http://ericpinball.mijnbb.be/work-in-progress-rfm-restauration-complete-t400.html
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Re: playfield cleaning technique
« Reply #9 on: August 11, 2009, 12:34:27 PM »
You can clean PCBs in water if you must, as long as a few things are observed...

1 - no EM devices (switches, relays, dip switches) or coils on the PCB
2 - another water removal agent used as soon as possible - Isopropyl or Methylated spirits rinse
3 - board then allowed to dry thoroughly in a warm area.

But again, I would personally go: shellite (only if nasty-dirty), Metho/Iso, then drying. Soap and a hose ... well ...  #@# suppose it works for now... but long term... sheesh!

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Re: playfield cleaning technique
« Reply #10 on: August 11, 2009, 11:27:03 PM »
Should have tried that on the HH - would have saved about 20 hours of cleaning and polishing.

Might not have improved the rust/corrosion side of things though come to think of it!   :lol
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Re: playfield cleaning technique
« Reply #11 on: August 11, 2009, 11:31:20 PM »
hahahaha - that image reminded me of myself a few years back getting hosed down in the yard by the Mrs after a MASSIVE night out    **)#@#
There was bits on the outside of me , that were meant to be on the inside of me and the hose soon got rid of them   :lol :lol :lol
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Re: playfield cleaning technique
« Reply #12 on: August 12, 2009, 12:36:23 PM »
I reckon it would be ok to hose down a playfield as long as you let it dry out completely in the sun afterwards & don't use detergents etc- not that I would try it myself though. Sure would make cleaning easier & I don't think the moisture would have enough time to cause rust or corrosion

Where i've worked we used to wash PCBs quite regularly and as long as you let them dry completely there were no issues

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Re: playfield cleaning technique
« Reply #13 on: August 12, 2009, 01:23:33 PM »
I reckon it would be ok to hose down a playfield as long as you let it dry out completely in the sun afterwards & don't use detergents etc- not that I would try it myself though. Sure would make cleaning easier & I don't think the moisture would have enough time to cause rust or corrosion

Where i've worked we used to wash PCBs quite regularly and as long as you let them dry completely there were no issues


It's not rust or corrosion I would be worried about really, it would be the swollen timber, delaminating ply and eventual planking/cracking of the playfield surface that would be inevitable after such a soaking!

At a guess, playfields are NOT made with marine ply!

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