{"id":1827,"date":"2011-03-23T23:19:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T21:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2011-07-04T16:26:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T14:26:49","slug":"more-discoveries-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=1827","title":{"rendered":"More discoveries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the full-body Mylar pinged up tody:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1828\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_2172.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1828\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1828\" title=\"IMG_2172\" src=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_2172-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_2172-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_2172.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1828\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not-so-clear Mylar coming off from the playfield<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Incidentally, if you look carefully at the playfield, you can see that someone has taken a knife to the Mylar in the past to remove patches of it. Disgusting!<\/p>\n<p>On removing the centre ramp, it turns out that the red cover is a metal cover pop-riveted to the plastic ramp and covered in red carpet tape. Nice!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1829\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_2182.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1829\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1829\" title=\"IMG_2182\" src=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_2182-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_2182-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_2182.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Centre Ramp with red metal cover<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Removing the metal cover revealed the broken piece of plastic:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1830\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_2183.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1830\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1830\" title=\"IMG_2183\" src=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_2183-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_2183-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_2183.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1830\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Broken piece of plastic - the reason for the repair<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At least I now have the basis to repair the ramp properly (as NOS or repro middle ramps are very hard to come by and when they do appear are (thus) extremely expensive).<\/p>\n<p>Finally for today, the left Mothership plastic, with the upper support lug missing and the bottom part repaired with a metal sheet (pop-riveted on and painted):<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1831\" style=\"width: 227px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_2187.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1831\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1831\" title=\"IMG_2187\" src=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_2187-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_2187-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_2187.jpg 581w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mothership plastic left-side &quot;repaired&quot; (sic)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tasteful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the full-body Mylar pinged up tody: Incidentally, if you look carefully at the playfield, you can see that someone has taken a knife to the Mylar in the past to remove patches of it. Disgusting! On removing the centre ramp, it turns out that the red cover is a metal cover pop-riveted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827","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=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1845,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions\/1845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}