{"id":609,"date":"2009-10-07T17:40:22","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T15:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=609"},"modified":"2011-06-15T20:59:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T18:59:35","slug":"things-metal-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=609","title":{"rendered":"Thing’s Metal Box"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my endeavours to get everything clean, I used some abrahsive cleaner to clean Thing’s Metal Box (which resides under the playfield). Unfortunately the cleaner that I used (Stahlfix) was way too agressive for the zinc coating and so etched through to the metal underneath:<\/p>\n

\"Zinc<\/a>

Zinc plating etched away after cleaning<\/p><\/div>\n

\"More<\/a>

More etching of the zinc coating<\/p><\/div>\n

Having made a few enquiries online as to what I could or should do, I decided to get the zinc coating renewed on the metal box. So I looked for a local works that could do this for me.<\/p>\n

To cut as long story short, I went to pick it up today and was disgusted by the finish: the coating wasn’t uniform at all and there were like pieces of grit under the zinc coating making the finish extremely rough – both inside and out – just right for a pinball – NOT!<\/p>\n

Needless to say I declined the part and asked them to rework it. I’ll see next week whether they’ve been able to correct the mistakes.<\/p>\n

Incidentally – and this is a very important point, I had the metal box “hot-dip galvanised” when I should have had it galvanically galvanised (using electricity)\u00a0 – this latter method results in a more uniform and better looking coating.<\/p>\n

If I had only known that before (or the work shop had actually told me)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my endeavours to get everything clean, I used some abrahsive cleaner to clean Thing’s Metal Box (which resides under the playfield). Unfortunately the cleaner that I used (Stahlfix) was way too agressive for the zinc coating and so etched through to the metal underneath: Having made a few enquiries online as to what I […]<\/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-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","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=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1682,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/1682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}