{"id":756,"date":"2010-02-19T23:16:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T21:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=756"},"modified":"2011-06-15T20:59:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T18:59:34","slug":"clear-coating-the-playfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=756","title":{"rendered":"Clear-coating the playfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to prepare the playfield for clear-coating I started by dry-sanding the exposed area with 1200 grit wet-and-dry sand paper ensuring the whole exposed playfield was &#8220;roughed-up&#8221; and dull in appearance. I vacuumed up the resulting debry from the playfield before using a damp cloth to remove any dust remaining and just to ensure there was absolutely no bits left on the playfield, wiped it down with a tack-cloth.<\/p>\n<p>I then took my spray-can of 1K clear-coat varnish and applied four light coats of clear-coat, each coat consisting of both a horizontal and a vertical spray pattern in a criss-cross pattern. I left 5-10 minutes between each coat to give each coat an opportunity to breath. This methodology was chosen having read many different guides on clear-coating on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>So it came as a big surprise when the resulting clear-coat came out disappointingly:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_757\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Klarlack.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-757\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-757\" title=\"Klarlack\" src=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Klarlack-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Klarlack-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Klarlack.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First clear-coat covering<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Time to turn to one of my local forums (flippermarkt.de) for help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to prepare the playfield for clear-coating I started by dry-sanding the exposed area with 1200 grit wet-and-dry sand paper ensuring the whole exposed playfield was &#8220;roughed-up&#8221; and dull in appearance. I vacuumed up the resulting debry from the playfield before using a damp cloth to remove any dust remaining and just to ensure [&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-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","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=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1663,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions\/1663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}