More questions. I've got a bunch of metal plates and bars, basically, which fit inside the pin. Plus, the coin door, shooter rod plate (note: c-clip now ripped off using the spiral screw remover), and the bar that sits at the bottom of the backglass.
I know some people seem to chrome plate literally everything, including all the mechs, and I've been recommended Douglas Plating for chroming locally (
https://www.douglas-plating.co.uk). Thing is, I don't know what to chrome because there's a durability issue and, if I chrome plate stuff and it wears off, it's going to look instantly horrible. IIRC,
@CHRIS B PINBALLS doesn't powder coat coin doors due to the risk of damage, but I'm not sure about plating (?).
So... all advice very welcome here on what exactly I should be plating?
In many cases, where it's obviously zinc plated, I've have been spraying with instant spray-on zinc from a spray can I got from ToolStation. But I don't know what to do about stuff that's more visible. The sort of stuff that Haggis Pinball would chrome on a Fathom/Centaur Revisited.
Today is an exciting day, at least for a friend of mine in Australia. Alex Moss reached out to me a little while ago and shared pictures of the first ever unboxing of Haggis Pinball's new Fathom Revisited Mermaid Edition pinball machine. The game looks amazing. Here's a few pics from the...
www.knapparcade.org
Possible chrome underneath the playfield here (6 minutes 55 seconds in).
Do I just take everything in its little bags to the plating firm and get literally EVERYTHING replated?
@stumblor, if you don't mind me asking, what did you do with your
CFTBL (
https://stumblorpinball.com/blogs/n...-black-lagoon-refurbished-by-stumblor-pinball). It looks like all the mechs went to the plater and the screws went in the tumbler?