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Upper after drilling.
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All holes are properly placed for the jet bumpers.
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Ground coat of clear applied.
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I will need to repaint much of the playfield.
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There are some storage scratches through to the wood.That is not unusual on NOS items 30 plus years old.
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Another scratch.
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The crackling will be the biggest issue.It shows through the lighter and lower colors.The orange,red and yellow will look
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Now that the playfield has had a few months to soak in I will begin the repaints.
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Sanded.
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Yellow areas are masked and refinished.The smallest details are not done because that would make it look worse not better.
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The crazing in the yellow areas is gone.
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The other accents were redone as well.Basicall all the areas that could be done well were.
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The damaged area gets a ground coat of yellow to start with.
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Ready for the next color.
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Orange is done.
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Red is done.
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Unmasked.
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I will do the white next but I need to take a break from this type of work for the day as it can be very tedious.
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The cabinet is new but bare.Since it will be painted it needs to be as straight and smooth as possible.
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First step is to seal it up and start eliminating the grain.Cabinet is primed.
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Head primed.
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Guide coated.
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Ready to start the sanding and rework.
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Lower sanded.
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Head sanded.
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Now that the grain is smoothed and the guidecoat has showed the trouble spots I will continue working the cabinet towards
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Head and cabinet are now ready for another application of primer.
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Primed for the second time.
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Guide coated to see how close to perfectly straight I am this time around.
Worth noting that new cabinets are not actuall
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Sanding in process.
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Final sanding is complete and the cabinet is ready to refinish in the base color.
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I will paint the head first since it is a different color from the lower.
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head refinished in the base color blue.
It will be cleared later but prior to the next color being applied during the ste
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Lower is ready to refinish in it's base color.
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Lower is based.
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