{"id":627,"date":"2009-10-08T21:03:28","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T19:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=627"},"modified":"2011-06-15T20:59:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T18:59:35","slug":"touching-up-the-touch-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=627","title":{"rendered":"Touching up the touch ups"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having decided upon which protector to use for the electric chair (see last post) I inserted it into the playfield from the backside and was horrified to see the metal frame poking out from behind my front bevel. I had cut the bevel too deep! As I didn’t want to live with this (it was ugly), I decided to fill in the bevel with wood putty and rework it to the right level, so that it fitted with my new protector. I also discovered online that the original playfields also had bevels on the sides (which explains the shape of the artwork to the left of the hole. So I thought I would take this opportunity to bevel the hole as originally intended:<\/p>\n

\"Electric<\/a>

Electric Chair hole showing original bevel<\/p><\/div>\n

I also thought I’d take the opportunity to rework some of my earlier touch ups (note the use of masking tape to prevent damaging the playfield at the sanding phase):<\/p>\n

\"Chair<\/a>

Chair hole touch up<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Chair<\/a>

Chair hole from behind - (note the height of the protector in the hole)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Rebuild<\/a>

Rebuild of Swamp entrance from shooter lane<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Some<\/a>

Some wood splintered on the right inlane switch hole which needed rebuilding<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having decided upon which protector to use for the electric chair (see last post) I inserted it into the playfield from the backside and was horrified to see the metal frame poking out from behind my front bevel. I had cut the bevel too deep! As I didn’t want to live with this (it was […]<\/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-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","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=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1680,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}