{"id":2007,"date":"2011-05-21T22:06:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T20:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=2007"},"modified":"2012-11-06T14:07:26","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T12:07:26","slug":"taking-stock-of-the-playfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=2007","title":{"rendered":"Taking stock of the playfield"},"content":{"rendered":"

So having got the playfield cleaned of all parts – both front and back, it was time to take stock of the work to do\u00a0on the playfield.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately the original playfield which was in my AFM seemed to have a mylar sheet over the playfield, which was coming up at the edges, was cut with a knife in places and was pulling the insert lettering off of the inserts in other places. It was terrible.<\/p>\n

Time to look for an alternative.<\/p>\n

Fortunately a pinballing friend of mine, who also has an AFM had replaced his playfield with a reproduction playfield. On inspecting his original playfield, it was obvious that his was in a far better shape than mine. So I convinced him to sell his old one to me -thanks Marcel!<\/p>\n

So taking stock of my “new” playfield, there was still plenty for me which I needed to work on:<\/p>\n

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Typical insert wear<\/p><\/div>\n

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Typical damage between mothership drop-down target and mothership hole<\/p><\/div>\n

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Significant damage at the SOL hole - all six colours are affected!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Typical rollover switch damage to clearcoat<\/p><\/div>\n

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Significant damage to playfield behind Martian 'T' target<\/p><\/div>\n

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Damage caused by left ramp flap and damage to playfield from post<\/p><\/div>\n

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Damage caused by right ramp flap and damage to playfield from post<\/p><\/div>\n

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More insert wear on the edges of the stand-up target lights<\/p><\/div>\n

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Typical wear leading up to SOL hole<\/p><\/div>\n

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Insert coming away from clearcoat bottom left<\/p><\/div>\n

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Damaged left inlane and faded orange frame<\/p><\/div>\n

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The left inlane rollover switch hole is not only damaged, but the orange frame is faded<\/p><\/div>\n

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Damage on wood between kick-out and shooter lane<\/p><\/div>\n

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Insert outline damage - the insert is also lifting bottom right<\/p><\/div>\n

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Fading in the orange highlight to the left - this is hidden though<\/p><\/div>\n

Plenty to do here, so I’d better get started!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So having got the playfield cleaned of all parts – both front and back, it was time to take stock of the work to do\u00a0on the playfield. Unfortunately the original playfield which was in my AFM seemed to have a mylar sheet over the playfield, which was coming up at the edges, was cut with […]<\/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-2007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007","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=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2031,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions\/2031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}