Here we see a "custom" playfield post.
All parts are removed.
Next, I will remove the mylar around the bumpers and the slingshots.
I use Goo Gone and a hairdryer.
Here are the results:
Then I did a rought cleaning:
Then I did a deeper cleaning with colorless petroleum and steel wool (000): During the cleaning process, some paint were removed.
The playfield gets pretty clean, but I have big problems to remove the smell from the petroluem.
Before the touchups I sand the playfield light with 600 sand paper.
Afterwards I used silicone remover. Then I used a dust remover cloth.
Afterwards I sprayed "Color Matic 2 component lacquer " from duplicolor.
The playfiled looks like this:
Now I will start with the touchups.
A fellow pinball collector in germany (he works in the car branche) matched the colors (acryl based) for me. The black color is also from Duplicolor (paint stick for cars, color number 8-040). I didn't use a sharpie ink pen !.
Overallviews of the touchups
Repainting Spock
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Repainting arrow where no man has gone before
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Repainting space station (left)
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Repainting space station (right)
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Repainting planet
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Repainting left slingshot
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Repainting right slingshot
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Repainting shoot again
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Repainting enterprise (left)
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Repainting enterprise (right)
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Repainting bonus ladder
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Repainting outlane
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The playfield was a little wrapped. So I built a wood cage and put some heavy stuff on the playfield.
Here you see the wood cage, quite handy for wrapped playfields:
I took the playfield to my garage. They clearcoated it with the following product:
PPG (Deltron) D800 clearcoat.
After the nice success of this restoration I decided to swap my existing star trek playfield.
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