Gulftream Resto .. now playable

[goodolddays]

This game is almost finished . Played my 1st games on it yesterday .
Seems like it will be a great player and may well be a keeper. 
A few stats.
Purchase price $ 600. Parts and paint approx $200.
Time to restore .. in excess of 130 hours over 11 months. (did another restore in between)
Work done .
Make stencils of cab artwork , then strip and repaint cabinet and head.
Full mechanical rebuild including:-
New flipper kit
New coil sleeves all round, new coil stops as needed.
New spring kits in steppers.
New pop bumper bases, bodies, skirts, rod/ring assemblies , springs and plunger springs.
New eject hole covers. New flipper cabinet switches
Strip underside of playfield , remove and relevel all inserts and reassemble.
Cleanup of playfield , polish all posts , reglobe with 47’s and instal new rubber kit. 
Still need to do backglass touchups and decide what to do about the apron and ball shooter gauge. I want to repaint them in purple , same as the top apron, but as yet Pinball Rescue don’t do decals for this era of Williams EM’s.
I repainted the rails and top apron as these colours blend much better with the playfield and backglass than the factory pink.
Thanks again to Daniel for the start button .
Here’s a few pics 

[goodolddays]

A couple more pics .. I really like the backglass on this game

[millsy]

Looks great 

How about waterslide decals for the apron & shooter for now (Can be removed later)
Let me know & I can do some for you
Kev

[Mr Pinbologist]

wow that came up nice  

The pf looks great, sorry if i missed it elsewhere but did you have to do any touchups on it?

[goodolddays]

Looks great 

How about waterslide decals for the apron & shooter for now (Can be removed later)
Let me know & I can do some for you
Kev

Gday Kev . I completely forgot about that option .
Will have a read of your older threads about it and PM you with any questions .
Cheers Dave

[goodolddays]

wow that came up nice  

The pf looks great, sorry if i missed it elsewhere but did you have to do any touchups on it?

Thanks Mitch . Yeah , had to touchup around all the inserts , mostly just the black luckily .. towards the beginning of this thread you'll see a few before pics of the playfield showing the wear around the inserts.

[Strangeways]

That looks like a great machine brought back from the dead. Nice cab repaint - well done - you would be VERY satisfied with the result !

[Retropin]

mmmmmm... how good do you need the apron and shooter gauge?

[goodolddays]

Not sure what you mean Gav ? I intend repainting them the same colour as I've done the top Apron then apply decals. I already have an Apron and ball shooter gauge , both in pretty good shape , just faded (which doesn't matter)

[Retropin]

Aaaah.. OK,
I have a faded one here you could have had... i was going to block out the yellow and spray a pink tinted clear over it to give the faded more depth.

mate.. had you needed it, it was yours

[goodolddays]

Appreciate the thought Gav, Thanks 

[goodolddays]

This is a pretty cool game to play  now that I have fixed all the faults .
 After the 1st couple of games I realised there were problems.
Because most of the features rely on either a set of 8 relays, or another set of three (the number matrix) to trip the respective feature relay you need a lot of switches to be clean and adjusted correctly.

Examples .
To spell out S P E C I A L means 8 relays need to be tripped and an earth passes though 8 sets of switches to the relevent feature relay .. found a number of switches either out of adjustment or dirty on most of these relays, which meant game wasn't paying out for completing special etc.

To get a payout for 3 numbers in a line means all switches on a set of 9 relays need to be clean and correctly adjusted.
Game was paying out for 3 not in a line , eg 1,2, 5 or 2,5, 7 etc and not paying out from some lines of 3.
Found switches closed instead of open on 3, 7 and 8 relay as well as other dirty switches stopping payout for spotting corner numbers .

There were a number of other faults too due to out of adjustment switches

eg. ' On Bumpers' feature didn't work because
a) both target switches that light the bumpers for 100 pts instead of 10 were way out of adjustment + there was no earth for the hold cct for the on bumpers relay because of a NC switch on the eject relay was open.




Its also fun fault finding all this without a schematic .

[goodolddays]

Finally got round to sealing and touching up the backglass .
I tried painting in 'Balls to Play" freehand . I've just used my $2 shop acrylic paint.

At least it looks complete now .
Before and after pics

[Ford Fairlane]

Well done! great game and im so glad you saved her!

[Pauly540]

Now that's commitment sir. 
Following this tread starting Sept 2010 and now Feb 2013, I can now see, I now have no hope of giving away this hobby.