I'm gauging interest to do a group buy of FISHPAPER. It's an electrical insulation material made out of vulcanised cellulose fibres and is commonly found on pinball machines in leaf switches and coils, but there are all sorts of game-specific bits from a SOPRANOS Safe switch insulator to the Twilight Zone Mini Playfield Insulator. It's easy to cut with scissors or scalpel blade, but it very hard wearing and difficult to tear.
Getting hold of this stuff is a bit tricky in the UK for some reason. Farnell sell it but only from US stocks and charge an extra £16 to import it. I found some on eBay but the postage charges were near criminal, again from the US. Also, all of these were 0.010" (0.25mm) thick whereas all the bits I've measured on my machines are the slightly thicker 0.015" (0.38mm).
However, I found a manufacturer in the UK, RH NUTTALL, who are willing to sell to private individuals on a cash basis (they normally deal with business-to-business in large volumes). They make VULCANISED FIBRE SHEET on a commercial scale in big sheets in various thicknesses and colours.
So, the deal is this: they have GREY 0.4mm (0.015") Vulcanised Fibre sheet supplied on 3m rolls 690mm wide. The cost is £25 cash including delivery. I literally have to send them money in an envelope!
So who's interested in a GROUP BUY of fish paper? I would cut the width in half and then divide into 25cm lengths. Each piece would be 345mm x 250mm or roughly 13.5" by 10". A roll would therefore make 24 sheets this size (cost price of £1.05 each).
Each sheet would cost £2.00 to cover 73p Royal Mail 2nd Class Large Letter, brown parcel paper and Sellotape, etc. That is, I'm not attempting to make any money out of this, just cover costs.
If you're interested reply below or PM me and I'll add your name to the list below. I doubt there'll be a massive rush on this but would prefer to start allocating one or two sheets each so everyone who wants some gets it
Kind regards,
Peter aka Nedreud
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Getting hold of this stuff is a bit tricky in the UK for some reason. Farnell sell it but only from US stocks and charge an extra £16 to import it. I found some on eBay but the postage charges were near criminal, again from the US. Also, all of these were 0.010" (0.25mm) thick whereas all the bits I've measured on my machines are the slightly thicker 0.015" (0.38mm).
However, I found a manufacturer in the UK, RH NUTTALL, who are willing to sell to private individuals on a cash basis (they normally deal with business-to-business in large volumes). They make VULCANISED FIBRE SHEET on a commercial scale in big sheets in various thicknesses and colours.
So, the deal is this: they have GREY 0.4mm (0.015") Vulcanised Fibre sheet supplied on 3m rolls 690mm wide. The cost is £25 cash including delivery. I literally have to send them money in an envelope!
So who's interested in a GROUP BUY of fish paper? I would cut the width in half and then divide into 25cm lengths. Each piece would be 345mm x 250mm or roughly 13.5" by 10". A roll would therefore make 24 sheets this size (cost price of £1.05 each).
Each sheet would cost £2.00 to cover 73p Royal Mail 2nd Class Large Letter, brown parcel paper and Sellotape, etc. That is, I'm not attempting to make any money out of this, just cover costs.
If you're interested reply below or PM me and I'll add your name to the list below. I doubt there'll be a massive rush on this but would prefer to start allocating one or two sheets each so everyone who wants some gets it
Kind regards,
Peter aka Nedreud
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1 - @Nedreud Paid Sent Received
2 - @Nedreud Paid Sent Received
3 - @DRD Paid Sent Received
4 - @astyy Paid Sent Received
5 - @Mfresh Paid Sent Received
6 - @Mfresh Paid Sent Received
7 - @lukewells Paid Sent Received
8 - @myPinballs Paid Sent
9 - @myPinballs Paid Sent
10 - @JT. Paid Sent Received
11 - @ronsplooter Paid Sent Received
12 - @ronsplooter Paid Sent Received
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14 - @mufcmufc Paid Sent Received
15 - @mufcmufc Paid Sent Received
16 - @Gaz Shiells Paid Sent Received
17 - @kevlar Paid Sent Received
18 - @Eddie Twadds Paid Sent
19 - @Matt Adams Paid Sent Received
20 - @Matt Adams Paid Sent Received
21 - @Hiro996 Paid Home Delivery Received
22 - @Hiro996 Paid Home Delivery Received
23 - @nick-the-greek Paid Sent Received
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1 - @andy Paid Sent
2 - @Paul Paid Sent Received
3 - @Paul Paid Sent Received
4 - @Arv Paid Sent Received
5 - @Moonraker Will bring to SWL
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great bunch of helpful people on here, only too happy to help.
No SCS and I have a feeling the UKPP might be skipped is year. Just a hunch. Everything else is fairly "Oop Norf" so 4-5 hours drive and overnight stay. Never say never though 
