Repairing and Touching Up
Having stripped down most of the playfield I started the undoubtedly daunting task of touching up the playfield today.
Armed with my plastic wood (PC-Lumber) imported from the US, I filled out the electric chair hole, keeping to the desired profile as well as I could in order to prevent giving myself too much work at the sanding down phase. I also filled out the slightly damaged area of the entrance to the Swamp from the shooter lane.
Plastic wood applied to the Electric Chair outhole
Plastic wood applied to the Swamp entrance from the shooter lane
Whilst waiting for this wood to dry, I took on some easier tasks: Firstly the crooked Train Wreck target was simply a case of physically bending the target upright. Originally I thought the target had not been mounted centrally with the cut out, but it had. Closer inspection of the target showed that the target upright wasn’t at 90 degrees to the mounting bracket, making it skewed when mounted.
Original (lopsided) Train Wreck target
Straightened Train Wreck target
Secondly, I touched up the front of the cabinet with the acrylic paints I had purchased. Fortunately, no mixing required, as the yellow colour I had in my pack matched the yellow of the sword quite well and the only other colour required was standard black.
Original front side of Pinball machine
Front side of Pinball machine after touch-up
Not bad, if I do say so myself!