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Mine hole.
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Wear and ghosting.
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Ball eject in the jet bumper area is worn and has a divot.
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Crackling in the upper playfield.
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Cabinet is pretty nasty.
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Cabinet is gutted.
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Playfield restore begins.It will be a tougher one.
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The shooter lane is solid just a bit worn.It should sand up but may need a overthinned wood tone to look nice again.
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Shooter lane is sanded as clean as possible for right now.
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The first thing that needs to happen before starting the repairs and repaints is to eliminate the ghosting in the insets a
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First coat of clear applied.This one was done heavy because there needs to be a lot of sanding and leveling.
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The inserts ghosting has been addressed.There may be a tiny spot here or there that I will address later on but for now the
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Ghosting eliminated in the partner insert.
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All the other inserts that were badly ghosted are cleared back up.This was done without insert decals so the proper look is
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More detail of the insert issue.
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This is just the ground coat to seal the playfield up for the real rework process.After it sets up I will sand it level an
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Intital clear has set up so I can get back to making the structural repairs.
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Playfield is sanded.
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The worst areas will be fixed first starting with the kickout divot and the mine hole.
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Small holes are drilled to make sure the carbon fiber filler anchors well into the wood.This is important for a long lastin
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First fill is sanded.Another will be needed.
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Repairs to this area are complete and ready to refinish.
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The other areas that need fill have been done in the same manner.The exapsion cracks are filled as well.
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There is no way to duplicate the dithering of dots from screening with paint but a nice transition will be faded in during
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Yellow areas refinished.
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Green at the mine hole refinished.
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White areas under the ramp flaps refinished.
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Unmasked.
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The transition under the water fall ramp is roughed in pretty well.It will be tweaked just a little more with sand paper it
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More repairs in rocess.Same process as the others.Pilot holes are drilled for anchoring.
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Areas are filled with carbon fiber filler.
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Masked.
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Repainted.
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Unmasked.
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The upper area reds are being addressed as needed as well.
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Upper areas refinished.
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The ramp flap damage is alost repaired.There is a little mre detail work to do yet.
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The transition that needs the work is luckily tucked away behind Bart and some assemblies.This area will not be seen once a
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