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Re: BALLY STRIKES AND SPARE RESTORE (Real time restore)
« Reply #75 on: January 04, 2010, 10:36:59 PM »
I got most fo the glue removed also but pulled the pin for the night hopefully get it all of and polished tomorrow night.

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Re: BALLY STRIKES AND SPARE RESTORE (Real time restore)
« Reply #76 on: January 04, 2010, 11:19:49 PM »
Unfortunately removing mylar and losing some paint seem to go together. This is based on observations of threads on AP where mylar has been removed.

If you need to remove mylar then you need to be prepared to lose some paint along the way.

If you don't want to lose paint, don't remove the mylar. Mylar can be polished but if it is lifting at the edges most people will want to remove it.

At least you have the skills to fix it up!!

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« Reply #77 on: January 05, 2010, 12:18:14 AM »
Sadly this one had to be romoved it had shrunk about 5mm around each edge and left a dirty great black slime around it i think they used book contact instead of mylar  Bloody  !!@ s

Oh well shit happens ive still seen alot worse playfields than mine  ^^^

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« Reply #78 on: January 05, 2010, 09:37:27 AM »
Real nice resto on a classic there/I reckon the cabinet looks pretty dam good Daniel and shows some history? Keep up the great work.

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Re: BALLY STRIKES AND SPARE RESTORE (Real time restore)
« Reply #79 on: January 05, 2010, 09:58:02 AM »
Mine appears to have a similar quality mylar job on it.
Correct me if I'm wrong but yours and mine both seem to have had a contact sheet cut by a five year old installed on them.
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« Reply #80 on: January 05, 2010, 11:42:51 AM »
Daniel... that's a great starting base mate... Machine is in great condition !  ^^^

I am sure this will come up REAL nice !
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Re: BALLY STRIKES AND SPARE RESTORE (Real time restore)
« Reply #81 on: January 05, 2010, 03:17:39 PM »
Mine appears to have a similar quality mylar job on it.
Correct me if I'm wrong but yours and mine both seem to have had a contact sheet cut by a five year old installed on them.

Yeah i think your right a five year old could have cut and laid my mylar

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« Reply #82 on: January 05, 2010, 04:20:09 PM »
Aside from the couple of spots of paint that lifted it looks pretty good.
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Re: BALLY STRIKES AND SPARE RESTORE (Real time restore)
« Reply #83 on: January 08, 2010, 10:38:27 PM »

One thing I noticed from the pic of the hair dryer and the contact.

Apply heat to the OTHER side of the contact. In other words, you warm up the adhesive from the top of the contact sheet. Pull towards the hair dryer. Have the dryer in you right hand and lift he contact with your left hand and pull to the right as you heat the top of the contact.
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Well after the paint lifted i just left strikes for a while i finally had a crack at the playfield touchups the Orange worked well but im not happy with the yellow so ill have another try when its dry

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I think it is very good Daniel ! you should see my touch ups !
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I reckon it looks pretty good - the person who does the work often has the most critical eyes (except maybe a a paying customer) so maybe you're being too harsh on yourself Daniel? I think we can get carried away because we put all this effort into patching something like that small yellow scrape, we focus in great detail on that. In reality another person walking up to the completed machine to play wouldn't notice anything.  I use this test with a non pin fanatic and say to them I've been doing a bit of work on the playfield, does anything stand out?  Most don't pick anything, my brother is a builder and has a good eye for detail and he often picks things that I haven't fixed or noticed, yet the patch I've just done stand out like dogs testicles to me.   Eye of the beholder and all that.

Out of interest how will you protect that yellow patch?  I did some similar works and waxed it - the paint came straight off - grrr.

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Ive used an enamel Paint instead of acrylic so im hoping a good wax will do.    If not ill re do the touch upa and 2k Clear coat it ^^^

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Well i gave the touch ups a bit of Novus2 and then some wax and i think your right it only stands out to me because i know its there.     Down the track it wont be hard to try again as its right in the middle of the playfield.   

  So i started adding the new globe holders for the GI lights i am 2/3 done but have run out of time.      Once all the GI are done ill rebuild the playfield all the feature lamps will also be replaced but can do them easily anytime.   I just want to get the game back playable for the moment

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Well for once the Wife running late was a good thing i managed to get all the GI sockets replaced before we had to leave So now i can install all my new parts YEAH..

  Ive chickened out on replacing the rollovers with brand new bright red ones for now  every game ive seen has orange plus the artwork actually goes onto the rollovers and i dont want to risk damaging it .