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More highlighting of the insert issues in the starburst.
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Sanded level.
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Cleaned and ready to repaint as needed.
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The Merlin hole is now smooth and solid.A final repaint of the wood tones will follow.
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Final wood tone repaint is done.
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Yellow work is done and some orange insert repairs were taken care of as well.
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Starburst unmasked.Orange bordering around the stars was taken care of in the process.
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Other side starburst unmasked.
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Red is being refinished.This is addressing both the jet bumper wear and the ramp flap landing damage.
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Red unmasked.
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White insert border is being sprayed.Mostly the lower castle inserts.
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Lower castle inserts are improved.You could chase these type of issues all over the playfield but what I have done is hit t
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Ready to clear.
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Lower castle inserts look great now that they are cleared.
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Starburst as cleared.
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Ramp flap wear is gone.
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Troll cut outs are looking very nice.Sure they will be hidden under the flaps but it was worth a little extra effort to han
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Center arrow insert and jet bumper area repairs.
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After a day or two I will sand and apply the final clear to the playfield.It would be fine like this but I prefer to releve
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Rebuilding all the coils will be next.
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All coil assemblies are taken apart.
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All coil hardware was cleaned and polished.
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Corossion and surface rust are gone.
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Coils are being rebuilt.All new sleeves and hardware are used.
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Flippers rebuilt with all new factory coils,plungers,links,springs,bushings etc.
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Trolls are rebuilt with the supplied lighted troll bodies of which I have rewired and put on plugs to give a factory loo
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All coils rebuilt.
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Power box is ugly and corroded.
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I will swap it out with one I have had plated .
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Much better :-)
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Next is enlarging the floor speaker hole to accommodate the upgraded speaker.On MM it has to mount straight to the floor
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This is how much larger it needs to be.
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Cut and routed.
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Lower is being prepped for decal application.
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Plated box in place with all new ground braid and new reinforced leg plates.
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Upgraded speaker in place.
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Just about ready to decal.
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Head is partially rebuilt and prepped for decals.
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Decals applied.
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