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Wanted Electrical fishpaper (or a place where I can buy it)

Mfresh

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I'm after some fishpaper to replace the cover for the bottom of a Twilight Zone mini playfield. Anyone have any, or know where you can buy it in the UK?

Cheers,

Paul
 
Tried to find some awhile ago for leaf switches and coil spacers. A very industrial oldschool product so not much end user sales. There are a few bits on eBay but only from US sellers and the postage is extortionate. Search for electrical insulation paper or fiberoid paper. The stuff is actually called Vulcanised Cellulose Paper.
 
Thanks GrizZ. I saw that pinrestore has them, but its $18 postage for a $15 piece of postage. I may try making one out of some Lexan plastic I have, but I am a bit rubbish at making things so I might have to bite the bullet and go to pinrestore.

Gaz: its supposed to protect the magnets and electical goodies on the bottom of the mini playfield from balls that may whack in to it. BTW, was that your Taxi I saw in a shed in Sussex the other day?
 
Ha ha. Yep it was mate. Probably demoted to the shed next to the arcade. Poor old Taxi!!!! Anyone wanna deliver it to me.
I'm to lazy :(
 
I know mate. I started a new job in December and my feet haven't touched the ground since!! Apart from when Matt was on holiday!!
 
Gaz Shiells said:
What's it for anyway
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It's basically just very tough paper used to create an electrical insulation. Made from vulcanised cellulose fibres using a calendering process. I was after some as all my Bally pins have bits of it here are there but PARAGON particularly so.

Here's one of the flipper EOS switches. There's a piece of fishpaper at the bottom of the stack with a hole for a pair of contacts. It should be longer than the switch leaves but has snapped due to wear from the flipper arm that operates the switch. I think this is why the fishpaper is here; to prevent electrical contact between the switch and mechanism:

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And here's another piece mounted on the outhole kicker coil. This helps to prevent the coil wires shorting on the body of the kickerL

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If anyone manages to find a reasonably priced source of sheet/roll fishpaper I'm interested in going splits. It's not expensive to buy, e.g., $10-12, but postage from the US on stuff I've found is silly, like $50!
 
Back of a cornflakes box not do the trick ?


Or if you dont want graphics etc all over your cover then an insert from a new shirt (of course that means you might have to buy a shirt)
 
Nedreud said:
That's what I found before at Farnell and it's never in stock. It's a US-based item and can be ordered in for an extra £16. Ouch!
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It was last time I ordered it, I checked my order history form a year ago.

Annoying as I seem to have misplaced the remainder of my roll and I was going to grab some more


£16 postage is not worth it :(
 
I can't believe nowhere in the whole of the ruddy UK doesn't sell this stuff! £16 + £10 postage on a £4 item is a total joke.
 
I think fish paper is the general universal term. Technically it's vulcanised cellulose paper but electrical insulation paper/sheet gets matches in eBay and Google.

The £16 is an extra charge applied by Farnell to order in US stock. You still pay UK postage if you're order is under £20.

Cheaper to just buy it off eBay:

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=151103948385

About £16 delivered.
 
BigIan said:
Back of a cornflakes box not do the trick ?


Or if you dont want graphics etc all over your cover then an insert from a new shirt (of course that means you might have to buy a shirt)
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Any bit of paper/card will do the same job initially. Fish paper is just really tough! Very hard, if not impossible, to tear. So it's ideal for preventing chafing and/or contact of electrical connections/wiring in a moving/vibrating environment.
 
alternatively, i'm currently buying some stuff from pinrestore.com, and i just saw fishpaper on their site. if you let me know in the next day or so, i will put some in my order for you (i'm not getting any for me)
 
cooldan said:
alternatively, i'm currently buying some stuff from pinrestore.com, and i just saw fishpaper on their site. if you let me know in the next day or so, i will put some in my order for you (i'm not getting any for me)
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Hi Dan,

If that's ok with you I'd be up for a sheet of the thicker 0.015" fish paper that pinrestore.com stock (that http://www.pinrestore.com/Supplies.html page has loads of great stuff on it!).

Note to anyone else: At 8" x 9" it's about a third of the size of the 10" x 24" sheet by GC Electronics that Farnell have stocked before but it is the slightly thicker stuff. I just measured half a dozen bits of fish paper in various switches and coils with digital callipers and it's all 0.015" whereas the stuff from Farnell is 0.010" (pinrestore.com have this too).
 
HOLD FIRE, @cooldan! Alerting @Mfresh, @lukewells!

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).

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 could 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 make 24 sheets this size, so £1.05 each, plus a bit of postage for me to send them to you.
 
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