Xenon Restoration

[Strangeways]

If it is a keeper - I would not hesitate to re paint the body. The head would look different, so better to match them accordingly. A bit of extra effort, but it will be worth it in the end. Keep up the good work, Ian.

 

[63wizz]

it just seems a shame to sand off the original paint, but to repair the wood work on the head there was no choice,
the red on the body has faded and does not match the new red on the head,
so i will have to repaint the body, and it will look fantastic, just a lot of work.

Ian

[63wizz]

I have been busy tracing the cab art work and cutting out the stencils.

I have done some repair work on the cabinet,mainly around the neck of the cab as when the head is opened it has two sheets of glass in it and is very heavy,the bottom of the head was split and some of the neck due to the weight.

bogged and sanded all the original art work off the cabinet 

and prepared it for painting later this week.

painted the light board white and replaced the globes.

Ian

[63wizz]

I got the cabinet painted black through the week, 4 coats in total.and i got some blue stencil on today, will do the other side tomorrow.

Ian

[Strangeways]

Looking great, Ian !

What kind of paints have you chosen to use and are you spraying them on with a compressor etc ?

[63wizz]

Thanks Strangeways, The Black is a Wattyl solargaurd water base, and the colour has been spray packs, export brand i think from super cheap.

here is the front finished.

Ian

[ddstoys]

Looking really nice so far Ian.  That lightboard really makes a difference

[Mr Pinbologist]

Thanks Strangeways, The Black is a Wattyl solargaurd water base, and the colour has been spray packs, export brand i think from super cheap.

here is the front finished.

Ian

Looking great  

One word of advice if the stencil paint is 'export' brand, dont put anything like prepsol, metho or any harsh cleaners etc anywhere near the cab.. it will take the paint straight off!! i found this out the hard way on one of my cab repaints a few years ago (tried cleaning off a small amount of overspray). I never used Export brand paint again after that.

Sorry i dont mean to alarm you, just thought i should share my experiences using that paint.. its just not a good quality paint as i found out. Having said that though, Its very likely you won't have any problems with it and it'll look great for many years, (i used this paint on my Stern Lectronamo, its STILL looks just as good as the day i painted it about four yrs ago).

[ktm450]

Nice work 

[63wizz]

Thanks Strangeways, The Black is a Wattyl solargaurd water base, and the colour has been spray packs, export brand i think from super cheap.

here is the front finished.

Ian

Looking great  

One word of advice if the stencil paint is 'export' brand, dont put anything like prepsol, metho or any harsh cleaners etc anywhere near the cab.. it will take the paint straight off!! i found this out the hard way on one of my cab repaints a few years ago (tried cleaning off a small amount of overspray). I never used Export brand paint again after that.

Sorry i dont mean to alarm you, just thought i should share my experiences using that paint.. its just not a good quality paint as i found out. Having said that though, Its very likely you won't have any problems with it and it'll look great for many years, (i used this paint on my Stern Lectronamo, its STILL looks just as good as the day i painted it about four yrs ago).

Thanks for the tips, this is the first time using export paint, i have cleaned some over spray off with shellite and it does remove paint if rubbed to hard and to long.

Ian

[63wizz]

Ive got the young fella's birthday next weekend so i thought id better get my act together and finish putting my Xenon back together.
I powered it on and it fired up with out a problem, then i started a game and found one of the pop bumpers firing randomly. i adjusted the switch without any success. so i clipped the ceramic cap off and it works fine now.
also i found when the ball hit the left sling the right sling would kick and vise versa , i had put the wrong kicker assemblys on the wrong sides .
A couple of other minor adjustment problems and all is well

THE END.

[ajlaird]

Nice line-up, the boy should have a good birthday party!

[Strangeways]

Well done Ian - looks MUCH better after a complete respray.

Did you give the cabinet a clear over the paint job ?

[ddstoys]

I bet your glad you decided to re paint the cab now you have seen the result that looks great 

[63wizz]

No, no clear over the new cab art, ive repainted 3 machine cabs now and never done a clear over the art.

I am glad i repainted the cab but the stencil was a night mare to do as there is so much to cut out and it makes it so flimsy to handle, i ended up cutting it into 3 pieces and re join when stuck to the cab.

Ian