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In Progress Sopranos

Carl Spiby

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Just got this on Sunday but want to make it really, really nice.

The playfield is a little dull so it needs a good clean, I'm thinking of using Treasure Cove on this one as I never really get fantastic results from using Novus by hand.

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The safe has taken a beating over the years, so looking as getting new safe halves and decals, the decal on the drop target in front of the boat could do with replacing too.

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The playfield toys generally look OK but could do with a good clean.

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Small metal parts are tarnished so I will throw them all in the tumbler and let that do its magic, for ramps are wireforns, I've had good success with autosol.

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Lastly, I want to tastefully LED the machine, the inserts have to be Comet as they don't ghost on Stern machines, but as for the GI, I'm not sure, frosted ones aren't bad but I'm not thrilled with the amount of light they produce, I've tried 2x smd in there too but I don't like the light pattern they make due to the weird lens they have on.

The picture below shows frosted warm white LED in the left side and incandescent in the right.

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So last night I intended to just get the wireforms off so that I could clean properly underneath them, but it quickly escalated...

Also the wall where the ball kicks out the trough is chipping away, so I need to order a shooter lane cliffy to stop that getting any worse.

I've thrown a the ball gates and a few posts in the tumbler this morning, playfield should come up nice once its had a good clean.

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