Complete TAF, fullish rebuild

[Lee ellison]

Looking nice and smooth, should be fine for a long time with home use.
What are you using to polish the metal with? Fancy doing a tips and tricks video as you appear to be getting a great result?

Thanks , Yeh should be able to do a polishing tips and tricks video . Still got a mountain of stuff to polish , can you upload a video quite easily or does it take ages to load , cheers lee

 

[Carl Spiby]

I would upload to YouTube then link to it here.

 

[Lee ellison]

White bumper coil cover change , old left, new on the right

 

[Lee ellison]

I would upload to YouTube then link to it here.

I might do a " blue peter " type video - " and here's one I made earlier "

 

[Steve]

Very brave with the clearcoat spraying Lee!

I've gone for these on the last two refurbs, very impressive and play great too.

 

[Lee ellison]

two quick videos on polishing some hardware

 

[Lee ellison]

 

[Lee ellison]

Very brave with the clearcoat spraying Lee!

I've gone for these on the last two refurbs, very impressive and play great too.

Looks sweet , very shiny , mine is not as good as that , it is just a temp measure till I get the bottle to strip the whole playfield and refurb the lot including new insert decals

 

[Lee ellison]

More shiny bits going back on

 

[Lee ellison]

two quick videos on polishing some hardware

I,ll do a better video of polishing when I've got a really pitted piece to do ,like I say the carbon steel is quite easy to flatten off , the stainless pieces need some wet and dry work on them if you want to get rid of all the brushed effect

 

[Lee ellison]

It's getting there !

 

[Calimori]

The thread title still says "full or mini rebuild have not decided yet". Have you decided now?

 

[Lee ellison]

Still mini/ big , not full I,m going to do the playfield , inserts and clearcoat at a later date , everything else will be cleaned and tidied up , I hear what yr saying , I don,t think there's such a thing as a mini rebuild when it comes to pinball , you go to clean /fix one bit and you find another bit to do

 

[Lee ellison]

It's going back together at the mo. Some of the larger bits that need cleaning under the playfield I will do individually , otherwise I think I will loose track of what goes where. My hat goes off to any of you,s who have done a full playfield strip down ! Taking it down to the bare wood!

 

[Lee ellison]

I'm going to change thread title now if I can

 

[Calimori]

For most people, I think you are going far enough to call this a full rebuild though I hear what you are saying about inserts.
I also recognise what you say about just starting on one part leading to a much larger project as you see the next dirty bit.

My CFTBL was close enough to a back to wood on top and underneath but underneath was done piece at a time so there was not a mass of wired to deal with. The pop bumpers were easy to remove as they didn't have lights in (original), I added lights to make the next rebuild harder.

 

[Lee ellison]

Some nice and shiny stainless hardware , takes a lot more work than carbon to produce a shine some " blued" ramp flaps , I think they turned out ok

 

[Carl Spiby]

Honestly can't see a difference there, did you upload the wrong image?

 

[Lee ellison]

Honestly can't see a difference there, did you upload the wrong image?

No before and after, just the polished ss on one and showing the redone flaps on another , see if I can find before and after photo

 

[Lee ellison]

Before after

 

[Calimori]

Wow, definetly less blury in the second picture.
And cleaning up nicely, the metal work is looking very good.

 

[Lee ellison]

Before and after shots of ramp switches

 

[Lee ellison]

Before a good clean after a good clean and polish and re blued the ramp flaps

 

[Carl Spiby]

Nice to see you're in the habit of ruining your microfibre cloths too

 

[replicas]

Nice to see you're in the habit of ruining your microfibre cloths too

I can't stand to touch those bloody things.

 

[Lee ellison]

Top of playfield nearly done , good job , cos I,m getting bored . Tomorrow I,m welding up the 3kickouts that are broken . Then hopefully test time , I,ll clean the rest of the underside. Bit by bit ' happy days Nearly forgot , I,ve got to clean up and strip the bookcase !

 

[Lee ellison]

That's it for tonight ,playfield up and running , all new rubbers , flippers to put back in , bookcase to clean and fit and do the welding tomorrow

 

[RudeDogg1]

I can't stand to touch those bloody things.

I know what you mean I get dermatitis from the screen making chemicals and chalk at work. Which makes my hands very dry and them cloths stick to them which is annoying

 

[Lee ellison]

Starting to strip and clean the bookcase decals installed on bookcase , bad news - damaged the opto,s , Looks like I,ll be ordering a new one this morning

 

[Lee ellison]

Does anyone know if I can get one of these infa red LED boards or replacement LED,s in the uk part no , A-15018' thanks lee