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Harnesses and mechs are removed.
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Topside is being stripped.
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Very dirty.
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Playfield stripped out of the cabinet.
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Playfield in the paint shop ready to prep for the initial rework and clear application.
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Shooter lane will be sanded as clean as possible.
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Ball drop damage will be addressed later but is noted now.
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The book area will get a rework before even the first clear because it is such a tedious job.
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Basement hole will be reworked later.
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Prepped and ready for the initial reworks.
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Shooter lane is improved.
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I am prepping the book area.
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After a lot of time the area is masked and refinished.It is dithered via screen printing.That can't be duplicated in
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Should look nice once cleared.
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Ready for the first clear application.
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First clear applied.Wet in the following pictures.
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Book looks much better already.
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This area will continue to improve as the process continues.
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Damaged insert is looking better as well.Never going to be perfect but it is not something that you would notice off h
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After this sets a few days I will get back into it.In the time between I will focus on other aspects of the restore.
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Will rebuild all the coils now.
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Flipper plates will be replaced because of the broken hardware in the threaded holes.
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New plates.
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Flippers rebuilt.
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Other coils rebuilt.I will do the trunk and basement mech seperatly.Basement mech requires a new bracket.
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Gutting the cabinet.
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Cabinet is junk because of the staining and moisture issues up front.
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A nice lower is repurposed for this project.
I am doing this because TOM uses a unique cabinet and some of the uniqu
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A new head is used.
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Lower prepped and primed.Part of the prep was making a hole for the buy in button below the shooter .This one is a nice
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