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I will tear it down starting at the head.
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Many of the parts will be restored as we go.Starting with the lamp panel.
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Metal is corroded of course.
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Cracked at the catch.
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Repaired ,refinished and reassembled.Highlights are the metal is refreshed and the crack is no longer there.
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Hinge was nicely polished.
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Can put this away now and move on.
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Now we have the speaker panel.
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The grilles were poorly blacked out using a paint that is much flatter than the panel itself.In addition it was done in a w
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The plastic insert of the panel is badly deformed and warped.
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Now that it is out the warped plastic is much more obvious.I will carefully flatten it out prior to rebuilding the panel.
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Panel is refinished and rebuilt.The plastic fits nicely and is no longer warped..I can put this away now as well.
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Boards are removed and will be serviced as needed.
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Removing the wireforms.
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Wireforms are really just kind of pieced together from a hardware perspective.Cosmetics were not considered during the mo
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Rust, corrosion,peeling plating.
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Wireforms are stripped and will be sent out for plating.
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Topside parts are being removed and evaluated/inventoried.
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As the layers come off the rust/corrosion and neglect become more apparent.
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Plating will be about the only way to salvage some of these parts.They could be dressed up without that process but they wo
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ready to strip the playfield now that it is out of the cabinet.
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Stamped with an Aug 1989 date but the game was not actually built until April of 1990.
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Playfield stripped complete underneath.
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Playfield stripped complete topside.
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Will gut the cabinet now.
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