{"id":111,"date":"2008-10-31T10:05:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T08:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=111"},"modified":"2011-06-15T20:59:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T18:59:40","slug":"ive-been-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve been shopping&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It might seem that I have been neglecting my pinball machine over the last weeks, but on the contrary: I&#8217;ve been shopping. So far I&#8217;ve ordered the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Coloured #44, #555 and #906 light bulbs (to see the affect in certain locations)<\/li>\n<li>Coloured Flasher covers (to try out different colour combinations in each location)<\/li>\n<li>Flasher bases to go with the caps (to replace the riveted Flashers)<\/li>\n<li>Playfield wax (to wax the playfield once complete)<\/li>\n<li>Target spongue (to replace the missing spongue and to replace the existing spongues where necessary)<\/li>\n<li>A blue oblong target (to replace the broken bear target)<\/li>\n<li>Plastic protectors (for the sling shots and bookcase plastics)<\/li>\n<li>Perspex (to do my own set of target covers and\/or plastics&#8230;maybe)<\/li>\n<li>Mylar (for the target covers)<\/li>\n<li>An imperial box-driver set (my metric tools just wouldn&#8217;t always work!)<\/li>\n<li>Modeller&#8217;s wood (to take on some repairs to the cabinet and playfield)<\/li>\n<li>3M double sided tape (this may be needed to stick on my custom target covers)<\/li>\n<li>A new bookcase set (to replace the fractured bookcase)<\/li>\n<li>A full set of replacement bulbs (just in case)<\/li>\n<li>A full set of rubber parts (to replace the current rubbers, which don&#8217;t have the right colours)<\/li>\n<li>A full set of fuses (just in case)<\/li>\n<li>A full set of jet bumper tops (to replace the existing fractured tops)<\/li>\n<li>An almost complete set of NOS plastics (to replace the current plastics, which definitely need freshening up)<\/li>\n<li>An almost complete set of used plastics (just for the hell of it)<\/li>\n<li>Novus 1, 2 and 3 (to assist me in my clean up of the playfiled and plastic parts)<\/li>\n<li>3 new pinballs (to treat my pinball machine)<\/li>\n<li>Protectors for all of the out holes (to protect the holes and cover up the damaged areas)<\/li>\n<li>Some LED based #555 and #44 lamp replacements (to try out)<\/li>\n<li>A set of 18 different coloured acrylic paints (to touch up the playfield, where necessary)<\/li>\n<li>1 ounce of Lightning Blue Paint (to touch up the lightning on the cabinet)<\/li>\n<li>Paint brushes (to apply the acrylic paint)<\/li>\n<li>A cheap &#8220;Dremel&#8221; equivalent (to help with the cleaning and polishing)<\/li>\n<li>A set of blue steel metal ramps (to replace the existing ramps)<\/li>\n<li>A tool-less rivet set (to attach the parts requiring riveting without investing in an expensive riveter)<\/li>\n<li>A Hurley Riveter (OK, so I foud a cheap alternative to apply normal rivets)<\/li>\n<li>A new shooter (to replaced the current chipped one)<\/li>\n<li>3 slow burn 3A fuses, board and wiring (to update the power circuitry supplying the magnets to prevent future magnet burn)<\/li>\n<li>A set of TAF Gold Roms and a &#8220;Home&#8221; H-4 rom (to try out)<\/li>\n<li>An 11 pin Molex plug and pin strip (to replace the burn-out plug and connecting strip -J126- on the power board)<\/li>\n<li>An LED based dot-matrix display from PinLED (to try out)<\/li>\n<li>A new updated version of the WPC Power Board with modern components from PinLED<\/li>\n<li>A new updated Fliptronic I\/II board from PinLED (although the TAF will only require the Fliptronic I part, as the equivalent Fliptronic II board is located separately in the back box)<\/li>\n<li>A set of four leg protectors in blue (to hide the damaged wood on the main body behind each of the legs)<\/li>\n<li>A tumbler (to clean the metal parts of the pinball machine)<\/li>\n<li>Decals for the arch and pinball machine front (to replace the damaged decals)<\/li>\n<li>Decals for the cloud top (as one of the decals has started to peel off)<\/li>\n<li>Decals for the bookcase (as I too am of the opinion that the blue bookcase just doesn&#8217;t suit the game)<\/li>\n<li>A set of insert decals (don&#8217;t know why I bought these really)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might seem that I have been neglecting my pinball machine over the last weeks, but on the contrary: I&#8217;ve been shopping. So far I&#8217;ve ordered the following: Coloured #44, #555 and #906 light bulbs (to see the affect in certain locations) Coloured Flasher covers (to try out different colour combinations in each location) Flasher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1762,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/1762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}