Capt Fantastic... what a bloody mess!

[Boots]

Just bought myself a high pressure steam cleaner for the bottom board clean up... Ebay $79 inc postage... thatll do the job nicely... plus wife gets to use it afterwards.
Win win all round i reckon

Looks like it did a good job.
Have you got the link for the cleaner?

[Retropin]

Nice - try a little thinners to get the water out of the contacts 

Already done.....

[Retropin]

Just bought myself a high pressure steam cleaner for the bottom board clean up... Ebay $79 inc postage... thatll do the job nicely... plus wife gets to use it afterwards.
Win win all round i reckon

Looks like it did a good job.
Have you got the link for the cleaner?

Right here..

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190654183897

[goodolddays]

Wow . Great result there 

[Retropin]

Couldnt help myself.. gave the underside of the PF a steam clean, let dry and reassembled the game. Last night I changed the transformer over to a 240v model.

LOL- i still stood back and ran an RCD inline when i turned it on..  game started up and after a bit of tweaking got her to reset OK... no lights though.

Now i KNOW the game is workable and most definately fixable, i can now completely pull it apart and start on the cabinet swap/ restencil.

 and if you hadnt already guessed.... COMING SOON... CAPT FANTASTIC STENCILS!!!!!

[v8racefan]

Great work Gav,

That steam cleaner worked a treat!!!!

[Retropin]

Death of the machine.... ( and pics for stencils)




.. And what pinball looks like when sold at IKEA..

[Strangeways]

Looks like a straight forward stencil job mate ?

[Retropin]

Looks like a straight forward stencil job mate ?

Pretty much.. theres quite a difference between the colour the graphics should be and the colour you see on this old game... nice " opal" white under the side rails.. dark cream on the rest.

[Strangeways]

So the steam clearer did a good job ? Didn't leave water everywhere ?

[Retropin]

So the steam clearer did a good job ? Didn't leave water everywhere ?

No mate... cant remember the specs on steam but its something like once its turned to steam it has 20 X the volume of water at about 150deg C, so you get a lot more done with very liquid output.
Once the steam hits it, the dirt blasts off and the components are pretty much dry straight away.
There was a large amount of grease on this board and so i sprayed with sugar Soap first which made it wet... let this sit for a minute to begin to dissolve the grease and steam off. Board was perfectly dry by next day.
under the PF i just used straight steam and this was dry in an hour.. maybe even less

[Homepin]

We have been trying to clean the clear glass windows in our house for years - tried every available cleaner to no avail - always had a milky look.

I had actually decided to change all the glass when my missus tried her "Danoz Direct" steam mop (yes, yes a TV special thigo) and I couldn't believe it - the windows sparkle so well you struggle to see there is even glass in the frames!

An amazing product and Gav is right - steam does the job, very well!

[ktm450]

Steam cleaner worked a treat, look forward to the resto mate 

[Retropin]

Its been a while since ive posted on this. I only get to do this kind of work on weekends and i spent a few rebuilding the back of the cabinet, bogging, sanding back.. bogging.. sanding back etc. I finally got the primer on when the crap weather hit and its been pissing down for bloody weeks ... so this restore had to be put to one side.

But at a comfortable 30+ deg C ive managed to get her sanded back again and the base coat on... wonder how long it will take to get the stencilling done?

[pinball god]

Hard to believe they were the same components after that clean. Will be reading this thread to the end.