With the playfield fully stripped all metal parts were put into the tumbler.
Every mech was going to be cleaned and fully rebuilt.
Before i cleaned the top of the playfield i turned my rotisserie over and cleaned every single light socket with a tiny wire brush attached to the dremel.. I also cleaned under every single insert. Windex and a q tip or better known as a cotton bud by us aussies...
Made the world of difference. This little minor detail of cleaning under the inserts is worth every minute spent on doing it.
OK- on with the cleaning process...
First clean of the playfield was with multi purpose orange spray and a soft toothbrush.
second clean was with shellite to get rid of all the residue of the orange spray..
Next i went over the entire playfield with the magic eraser and isocol. Light colours really shows ball swirl and The yellow bonus ladder on ST is notorious for this.
I then proceeded to do minor touch ups to the playfield.
After i was satisfied with the playfield i proceeded to give it 6 coats of wax. 3 hot coats and 3 normal. ( meguiar's wax )
I had heard of this technique of hot waxing the playfield.. Apparently the wax is supposed to give a thicker coverage.
The process requires you to put a coat of wax on, heat it up, let it sit for a few mins and then take it off as you would a normal coat of wax...
It takes more effort to remove the wax once heated and i would say it did leave a thicker coat but very minimal.
Would i do it again. Yes as i did noticed it seemed to fill in any imperfections with one coat of the hot wax where normal waxing would have taken 2 to 3 coats.
1st pic is after all the touch up work was done.
2nd pic is one coat of the hot wax heated and waiting to be taken off.
3rd pic is immediately after the hot wax was removed.
