The "Zero" Score reel

The Zero Score reel is a "fake" score reel - just a plate with a sticker and the number Zero in it. They are always slightly faded, or sometimes they peel off. In this machine, they had faded and deteriorated to the point where they had to be touched up at one point, with a texta. I wanted to locate some stickers to replace them, but they didn't exist. The only way to fix this was to make my own.

This is how they looked on the machine ;





Removing them was easy - they fell off ! Just touching them caused them to fall off. Here's a picture of the old sticker and the base ;





I took one of the stickers to work. One of the "artistic" guys took a ruler - measured it up and created the sticker in a paint program. After a bit of tweaking, I printed it on an A4 sheet of adhesive backed paper ;





I then used some "contact" to cover the adhesive paper to give it that "plastic" look;





Finished product - Looks HEAPS better 





Only problem is that I discarded the unused portion of the printout, and I have another machine to do in the future !