Here’s a nice little video of the arcades in the 80’s. Alas, I can’t remember any of it.

Scratch Out by Kit - used to clean in the tumbler, cheaper the flitz.

In a discussion on RGP wether automotive clear coating of playfields is causing ghosting (milky Chris Hutchins posted a PF before it was Clear coated, showing ghosting happens anyways.

http://christopherhutchins.com/gallery/album02/8_G
http://christopherhutchins.com/gallery/album19/7_G
http://christopherhutchins.com/gallery/album19/8_G

Pinball Universe has a nice listing of paints they sell for touchups to your cabinet.

A nice little run down on a Indiana Jones Shop Job

I was perusing Rec.Games.Pinball when this story was mentioned.

I wish someone would do  this for me

Mundy said he realized right away that he couldn’t pass up a pinball machine for $20. Since he was 10 years old, he was fascinated by the machines because they are “more real than a video game because you’re actually controlling the flippers.”
The only problem was, it didn’t work, and Mundy had never attempted any mechanical work in his life.

And he’s got people calling him offering to sell games…

From:
Newsgroups: rec.games.pinball
Subject: Re: Best way to repair playfield damage

Lensman wrote:
> Going to have to fix this wear mark as part of restoring this pin.
> This is my first cosmetic restoration so I’m looking for some ideas on
> how you more experienced folks repair damage like this.
>
> http://www.pitapeople.com/sttng/sttng_playfield.jpg

This should not be too hard to fix.
The black is easy. black is pretty
much black. but you have to deal
with that light blue. i would use
water acrylics, get the best matched
color. then re-paint the entire worn
blue area. this way you don’t have
to deal with matching so close.
The lavender you don’t have to touch
up as the black around its edge
will fix that.

after that is done, clearcoat the
playfield. if you’re not up for that,
you can do the “water-thin super
glue wipe and roll” trick. That would
work pretty good. After you’ve done
that perhaps you could fill the area
in thin layers or water-thin super
glue, build it up, and block sand
it level with 2000 grit. polish with
novus2.  done.