Wonderful playfield restoration of an Eldorado

http://www.users.on.net/~bradandpam/restore/eldorado.html

From: “Bryan Kelly”
Newsgroups: rec.games.pinball
Subject: Re: ADVICE NEEDED: Which black Paint for inside Cabinet ?

I’m with Cayle on this one. Painters Touch semi gloss is a perfect
match.

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From: “Karl”
Newsgroups: rec.games.pinball
Subject: Re: PF airbrushing light colors?

Karl wrote:
>I’m using the waterbased acrylic latex paint to spray
> with the correct retarder and flow addative (thinner, not just water)

Hi Group.

I was asked a few questions about this so I’ll past the info here for
research purposes, hope it helps down the road…. I must also mentioin
that several of these techniques have been taught to me by our friend,
Arizona Bruce. Thanks Bruce and group!

The retarder and flow additive are the ones I mentioned this morning
(Liquitex found in those fancy art supply stores). I
think you could go without the flow additive because that big bottle is
a
concentrate that gets mixed with water at a 20:1 ratio making it pretty

much…. Water anyway! I mean now that I have it I use it, but wonder
if it
important…. The retarder is nice as it slows the drying time and even
for
brushing makes the paint “lay down” better as Clay mentions in his
guides.

The air brush I have has the “Blue Point” name on it and I got it off
the
Snap-on truck. It’s OK I guess… It’s instructions say operating
pressure
15-50 psi and recommended pressure 25 psi. You can experiment for good
spray
without too much overspray. I seem to think 20 psi for some reason but
just
experiment. I like to remove the tape very soon (10-30 minutes) after
spraying (before paint pulls up with tape). Don’t pull tape up, pull it

backwards across PF surface so as not to pull your paint up. Wipe the
PF
down with naphtha right after that and you’d be surprised how far away
the over spray gets
that you can see on the paper towel.

And that’s all I have to say about that. (Say like Forest Gump)
GodSpeed, Karl.

Newsgroups: rec.games.pinball
Subject: Bill Heatherley’s, A Pinball Zone, playfield restoration pics

Hi all,
I’ve added an example of Bill Heatherly’s playfield restoration work, a
Bally Playboy playfield.
http://host300.ipowerweb.com/~pingeekc/pingeek/play.htm

For more restoration examples,
http://host300.ipowerweb.com/~pingeekc/pingeek/pingeek2/zone1.htm
or just check out http://www.pingeek.com

Got this off of RGP. Gives me hope for my work. If I could just get around to it.

From: “Jim Knight”
Newsgroups: rec.games.pinball
Subject: FYI: First Pics Improved Through-Hole WPC Driver Board

I know you guys are able to repair your WPC driver boards; However, giving
a heads up on our latest redesigned product which can be used to replace
WPc89 & WPC-S driver boards.

We just got the board in and here is a picture of the front and back of the
blank PCB

https://home.comcast.net/~rottendog/wdp089.htm

We are still not sure of the final cost of the completed board as the
assembly house has not pulled together the final numbers. It will, though,
be less expensive than anything else out there.

Unless unforeseen major design defects are found, these should be available
in February 2006 time frame.

Design changes include:
-Discrete diodes replacing all Bridge Rectifiers
-Low Voltage Dropout +5V regulator - needs only 0.5V supply above +5V!
-Lower inrush current into all voltage regulators
-Logic Level FET’s simplifying the coil drive circuits
-Test points for all voltage supplies
-Centrally located LED’s with attached test points
-Beefed up ground plane (almost entire bottom side)

Again, just giving the community a “heads up”.

Jim Knight
734 330 5543

PS this is a ROTTENDOG AMUSEMENTS product and is clearly marked so. It is
unmistakably a new design which in no way purports to be a Williams or Bally
product!

PSS let’s fire up the soldering iron.

From: “Karl”
Newsgroups: rec.games.pinball
Subject: Re: Just ruined another “Slather Coat” PF!

Bryan Kelly wrote:
> You’ve got some talent, dude. Good luck with the rest of it. :-)

Thanks much Bryan although it isn’t art or talent IMO… My X-old lady
laughed when she asked me to draw a cat, she said “Are you serious?
This looks like a three year old drew it!!?” I have NO artistic talent.
I do have a steady hand and LOTS of time. I don’t create art, I just
fill in/coppy what’s missing, just like paint by numbers. Nothing more
than that and mixing colors well.

The thing I hope people take away from my sharing this work is that
ANYONE can restore a PlayField, just:

Watch your TOP videos:
http://www.marvin3m.com/top

Read your Repair/Restoration Guides:
http://marvin3m.com/fix.htm

Take full advantage of all the resources here in RGP history and/or
feel free to ask before you step. After that:

Practice on old junk PF’s first until you get it right and feel
comfortable. “This ain’t rocket science people” Say like Emeral from
that cooking show… BAM!!!!! I’m still a newbie so if I can do it,
anyone can do it, If you say you can’t ever do that, you never will.
“You can’t have no in your heart” Say like Joe Dirt.

Happy New Year all, Karl.