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Obviously the first thing to do is to pretty much entirely strip the playfield of all the parts. I take LOTS of photo's and I also separately bag parts from each area of the playfield as well. You will find it easier to leave the bumper bodies in place as if you want to remove them you also have to cut wires under the playfield to remove the internal lamp holder that sits inside each bumper. I do however, remove the steel rings for each bumper and polish them up as well as cleaning the bumper skirts and bodies with Novus. In the shot below I have stripped the playfield, cleaned under the apron area and polished the top rail as well as started my entire playfield clean with Orange Solvent or Wax and Grease remover.
I will just tell you of some things that I do to the playfield
and it's parts, in no particular order, you can just pick up what you want to
and look at the photo's to judge if you think it works or not. The first thing I do after stripping it is to rub it all over
with some Orange Solvent, it does no harm at all to the playfield and it
removes a lot of surface dirt and any old bits of glue or other crap you may
find stuck to your playfield ( you had better like the smell of oranges though
as you will smell like one for a week! ), you will find that Orange Solvent is
GREAT for removing the dirt that forms in a line on the edges of Mylar sheets,
it "nearly" makes that Mylar line invisible!. After that, I hit it with the Novus 3 treatment, it is great
for removing dirt from cracks, I then hit it with Novus 2 ( all over, two
times ) and it generally comes up clean and fairly shiny after that, but then
I get out a Car Wax Paste and polish it all over to bring out a good shine in
the surface. All of the chrome rails are polished with an Auto Cream
Polish called Autosol, it is specifically designed for Chrome polishing. I
also use it to re-polish all of the mini posts, rails and pop bumpers as well
as on the plunger/ plunger surround and coin entry section on the coin door,
generally I use it on any chrome parts. I get all of the playfield plastic posts and I soak them in
the kitchen sink for an hour or two in normal dishwashing detergent, I then
scrub them individually with a toothbrush, it is amazing how dirty these
things get. On the playfield inserts I go around them using a Black Sharpie Texta Pen- it is simply awesome. I have also used the Sharpie on some of the smaller black area's of the playfield, it sound's terrible, but it works fantastically, take a look at the black in the pictures of the black that surrounds any playfield insert or have a look at the inserts on my Hulk or Gorgar pages . On Flash I removed the white (well they were yellow) star shaped Rollover inserts and soaked them in Orange Solvent and then scrubbed them with a toothbrush until they became white again. The Bumper bodies were done with Orange Solvent and then Novus 2. When re-globing under the playfield I also use a pipe cleaner with a good window cleaning fluid to clean under each playfield insert.
New correct Rollover Lanes installed.
New shooter lane wood strips installed.
New target decals installed, playfield and metals polished and starting to look good.
You should see a fair difference between the old eject hole area and how it looks now. And you can also see the flipper is now sitting as it is meant to.
These Star Rollovers were yellow / brown before I cleaned them by removing them and spraying them with Orange solvent and scrubbing them with a toothbrush.
Another page showing different area's of this restored playfield
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