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Repro TZ playfield as it arrived.
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Shooter lane needs some work.It is rippled and looks to potentially have a knot in it.
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Gum insert has milky white residue stuck in it on the right side.
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Better shot of the Gum insert problem.
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The Lock 2 insert also has some residue trapped in it.Right above the O.
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Another shot of the Lock 2 insert issue.
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All the switch cut outs have black bleeding into the natural wood. on the right side.
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Also on other parts of the natural wood.
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Same issue on the other side switches.
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Magnet holes have the black bleed over as well.
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The skill shot area lower color is pink not red.
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The clear is thick and extremely wavy.The entire playfield is con caved in the middle section almost like a skateboard.I
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The next few pics will be used to show the thickness and wavy nature of this playfield through overhead light reflections.N
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The entire center of the playfield dips way down and rises towards each edge left to right all the way up and down the
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The big dip in the light on the right side just before the door panel helps show what you can't feel in a picture.
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Mirco playfield on the right production on the left. Production is the more vivid Sun Process version.Mirco is based of t
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Close up of typical factory switch cut outs.
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Close up of a typical factory shooter lane.
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Mirco shooter lane.Seems to narrow and is full of clear.
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Mirco shooter lane shaped up a bit.The type of wood used maakes it hard to get a nice looking graduation between the plys
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I thought the first thing I might try is scratching away at the bleed through areas so I started at a bulb hole in a hidden
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Since this clear is so thick and uneven I have started leveling it with a coarser grit.180.Typically this is used for sha
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As I cut it down you can look at the holes etc and see how thick a build up is present.
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If you look around the target cut outs near the jet bumper area you can see where I am cutting into yet another layer of cle
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If you look to the right of the special insert you will see more indicators of multi layers being cut through in this leve
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I have shaved this down for quite a while now using various grits and even with that effort there is still a drop off mo
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Looking at the black to blue area you can see the transitions from coat to coat that must have been applied.
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Playfield is now sanded and leveled as well as humanly possible.
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Playfield is cleaned and ready for corrections in the wood tones.
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This helps further highlight the bleed over into the natural wood.
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Same thing other side.
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Matching this wood tone is a fine art.It needs to be transparent enough not to bury the natural grain but cover well e
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Wood tones are masked and sprayed.Fine line is used to make the missing edges on the bleed over side.
Once the color was s
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While sanding the runs out I had some clear just chip right off.The area is so thick that feathering it in isn't an opti
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Chip is being repaired.
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Chip is repaired and the repaints can continue.Unfortunately transparency in these cut outs is pretty much ruled out.
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