I took it as a knock to start with, I was looking for advice and encouragement but I have a pinball machine and get to play it every night which gets me over any pain.
Plus I would have been scared to damage a perfect one so at least I feel like I can't hurt the old Dawg. In my investigations I keep coming across a quick fix or bodge that I am putting right, whilst the playfield and cab won't ever be perfect, it might as well at least play right.
Over the last week I have rebuilt the bottom two flippers with including bushes (thanks for the tip) plus fitted orange coils and reconnected the EOS switches that were disconnected. New top right flipper has gone on and a partial rebuild because I keep forgetting that bushes are not part of the rebuild kit. That is now running a red coil not the orange one it had on it.
I realised my first attempts to strip it down and clean it were pathetic and so started yesterday having another go. What was the worst I could do to the dawg.
First some dirty shots:
This was pretty much as far as I was going to get in the time I had:
Things Box was nasty:
But came up nicely (that is my hand and not Thing themself)
Looking a bit better:
I was talking to Paul at the Slam about GrizZ' Addams and saying how much lighter it looked than mine, especially around and under the ramps. Paul said that there were clear ramps like GrizZ' and smoked ones which were darker. Well mine was a third type, bloody filthy. But it cleaned up nicely though has a few cracks as I would expect on an ex-arcade machine.
I also received some new slingshot plastics as Gomez was in peices but I can't say I am happy with them, the new ones are a cheap scan of the originals, the definition is awful.
If anyone has a NOS Gomez then please let me know.
So it still has wear and tear on the playfield but maybe I would tackle a playfield swap if a better one came up, for now I am happy that it is cleaner.
The bottom right half was done as well but I didn't get pictures, the jets area were done the other week. I need remove some bits underneath as well as the return ramps was filthy.
To celebrate, I gave the old dawg some new balls to play with. I also put a blue cover on light under the blue ramp which I really like but didn't seem to get a picture of that.
From the pictures, let me know if you see something that is wrong or that I should consider.