Stern Ali Restore

[Mr Pinbologist]

I'm entering the home stretch now  

Fitted the newly repainted legs, i made up some cab protectors to help preserve the new paint underneath!
The white one in the middle is my cardboard cutting template  




Legs fitted, original leg bolts polished on the buffing wheel.






Getting close now  

Just have to make up some new instruction cards to finish it off, and do some more play testing and do a few adjustments as needed!

And to get some better pictures that don't make the colours look washed out   will do that after everything is done and dusted!!

[tonyt]

Looks sensational Mitch. Really appreciate the effort you put into this as it really shows.

[ralph67]

looking good , really nice work on the BG too btw.
 Could you post a few pics of the Backglass holder on here , very usefull machine ,
 Well done of the resto , The owner must be stoked with the finished machine ...

[Mr Pinbologist]

Looks sensational Mitch. Really appreciate the effort you put into this as it really shows.

Thanks Tony, glad you like what you see 

It has been great to get to play an Ali after all these years as it is an old favourite of mine.

I only wish this was MY OWN machine and going into my collection 

[howzat]

Hi Tony
I got to  play test it  the other day. It  plays real  nice and looks great

Im sure his B/G jig is an old bed frame welded up     

[tonyt]

Hi Tony
I got to  play test it  the other day. It  plays real  nice and looks great

Im sure his B/G jig is an old bed frame welded up     

Great to hear, cheers

[Mr Pinbologist]

looking good , really nice work on the BG too btw.
 Could you post a few pics of the Backglass holder on here , very usefull machine ,
 Well done of the resto , The owner must be stoked with the finished machine ...

There is a thread here somewhere with some pics i posted ages ago when i built the backglass jig.. I'll see if i can find it and post the link.

Basically i built it from scrap angle iron i had laying around, i had my brother weld it up as i didn't have a welder at that time.

It has removable timber frames that hold smaller BGs... Gtb wedgehead, 2 and 4 player glasses for example. i have a Sinbad glass to do soon so i'll need to modify it again to hold that


Here is the link to the thread for the backglass jig.

http://aussiepinball.com/index.php?topic=10785.0

[Mr Pinbologist]

Ali is now complete and ready to go 

All of the fine tuning has been done, switches cleaned/adjusted etc, and instruction cards made.

The game has had a lot of play testing and it plays real nice!!

Anyway here are the final lot of pics.

[tonyt]

Wow, that looks sensational. I bet it even looks better in the flesh.

Your attention to detail really shows. Looking forward to getting it home

[Retropin]

Been following this brilliant restoration all the way... what can I say that the machine doesn't already shout loudly??

Fantastic job mate.. absolutely fantastic!

[MartyJ]

Great work. Owner will be very happy


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[ddstoys]

It's a thing of beauty

[Strangeways]

Better than New. 

 

[Pop Bumper Pete]

nice

[Retropin]

Ali's sad demise today makes the finished restoration on this very special... enjoy your game Tony