williams time warp restoration

[pinnies4me]

PM me your number and I'll set it up

[pinball god]

How'd you remove the mylar? I bought a 1977 Cleopatra playfield to tested a few methods. Freeze no good at all, but shellite and the a sunny day seemed to do the trick. I had a bit of paint loss in the beginning, but found that it was more due impatience. Lost little dots of paint in areas again from going too fast. Is that what you found or is it more a matter of luck of the draw?

The playfield still looks awesome and much better than before. The residue if its glue, you try to brush shellite like mad in areas to test if it comes up 

good luck with the project 

[d3vlin]

How'd you remove the mylar? I bought a 1977 Cleopatra playfield to tested a few methods. Freeze no good at all, but shellite and the a sunny day seemed to do the trick. I had a bit of paint loss in the beginning, but found that it was more due impatience. Lost little dots of paint in areas again from going too fast. Is that what you found or is it more a matter of luck of the draw?

The playfield still looks awesome and much better than before. The residue if its glue, you try to brush shellite like mad in areas to test if it comes up 

good luck with the project 

hi mate i tried shellite and heat on my last pinny (1980 torch) and it worked pritty good but on this i tried to  use white spirit. but found i was losing little dots no matter how fast or slow i removed it so i tried with heat from a hair drier and it started removing much easyer. but still lost bits of paint. i think most of them little dots u lose are just luck. cant stop that. but i found that the white spirit removed the mylar but left nearly all the glue on the play field. but when i used shellite and metho on my torch with heat most of the glue stayed on the mylar. it could be because they used different glues on the mylar im not shore but there was a hell of a lot of rubbing and scrubbing to remove the glue from the time warp.
i lost the most paint removing the sticky plastic rings from the pop bumpers. wish i new i would of left the ones that were not so bad. 

[Strangeways]

Application of heat and a lot of patience is the key to mylar and contact removal !

Heat is more important that anything - shellite is used only to clean up the adhesive residue.

[ddstoys]

Well i had a crack at the playfield touch ups tonight and they came up fairly well i think.

  Here are a few photos

[d3vlin]

i helped 

[FirePower]

The green around the dragons has come up really well. The original pics showed bare wood, did you prime it first to build it up or just straight colour?  Are the fine black lines done with an artline pen?
 

[ddstoys]

Again using an enamel paint so we hopefully dont need to clear coat was just done straight over the wood and the fine black lines were done by hand with enamel on a brush.   All these areas will be covered with pop bumper rings so should hold all these touch ups in place

[Strangeways]

Sand it as flat as possible with 1200 Grit and then mylar - key is to get it flat.

[ddstoys]

Ive sanded and polished all the green area flat put the blue is being a prick.....     Ill give it a few days to dry and try again  IM not happy........

[pinball god]

what touch ups?? too good a job to spot, well done

[ddstoys]

Sorry guys here are some pics of the machine as it sits. Still needs the cab polished and a few other bits that Marcus can do when he gets it home 

[The pinballist formally known as Dean Morgan]

Wow is that the same machine I had here???? What a transformation...Well Done 

[ddstoys]

Yep same machine Dean came up pretty well.   When i said i was putting the photos on he got motivated a little (very little) and started to polish the cab and cut out his instruction cards  

Id started a few touch up on the backglass just to make it a little better it has helped so far but i wont post pictures until ive finished the job

[FirePower]

Has come up very nice - looks great compared to what you started with.