Hi all,
I picked up a 1976 Gottlieb Solar City recently that was an unfinished project with lots of potential.
The guy had painted the cabinet but after 3 attempts at the stencils he gave up and put it up for sale!
Now this suits me fine as I am ok at stenciling and just need to spend a few hours in Photoshop to get it right.
The machine works but has had the credit unit removed, I picked one up from Daniel (ddstoys) and the next thing is to work out what wires go where etc.
It needs a back box back door but thinking of just making a timber one, at least for the time being to keep the racket down.
It has a problem where it doesn't award extra ball but will work on that.
Playfield is quite good with great colours except for the white which has gone that crappy yellowy dirty colour. It also has a clear contact/mylar applied to most of the playfield, due to use it had the dirty line around the edge of the contact which I cleaned out with isoprophyl alcohol so now it blends really well. The previous owner had replaced flipper bats, pop bumpers, drop targets, white posts and rubbers so all I need is new plastics which are on their way from Pinball Rescue. I also removed the timber rails and sanded them and a fresh coat of varnish applied.
The apron has been freshly painted and a decal applied before I got it too.
The back glass looks good until you turn it on LOL, not too bad but the blue sections have flaked and the previous owner had re painted the blue sections and added led's.
I will clean off the blue paint and touch it up my way and hopefully it will look ok. I feel confident that I can fix this as it is no where near as bad as Charlie's Angels backglass and I was able to sort that one out.
I have started cleaning up the playfield as mentioned and will update as things progress...
Cheers: Brettski... :)
