It's wet satin black. Don't think gloss would look right so I've stuck with satin.
You did right.
It's wet satin black. Don't think gloss would look right so I've stuck with satin.
oops, i thought you were the dude from The Pipeline bar?Will do, you do know my names not Thomas though? It's rich.
oops, i thought you were the dude from The Pipeline bar?
my mistake, and in any case the compliment stands, and congrats on the impending twins matey :hippie:
Small update.
Things are going slow (isn't that just the way!). Bill has reported back that the platers doesn't do zinc dipping any more. However he's going to get everything bright chromed for about the same price. None of it will be polished so it won't be a mirror shiny finish, just a nice bright silver that won't dull. Ideal!
The playfield has arrived back with Henrik. After much searching the net the best price i could find to send it fully insured was parcelmonkey.com who wanted £39. Could have been worse although its an expense i would have liked to have avoided!
Not much more to report at the moment. I'm trying to do as much as i can before the PF comes back. That doesn't amount to much!! replaced the GI headers on the power board. Here's the old connector for the backbox GI. Looks like the old one had burnt so instead of replacing properly the crafty operator found a suitable connector, cut it off whatever it was connected to and attached it to the theatre using chocolate block connectors. As you can see it all got a little toasty!! That gob of melted plastic was once a connector block! Now replaced with the proper connector and trifurcon pins.
Also, numpty me ordered a load of 0.093" connectors from farnell and to complement them............0.062" pins! nice! Ironically the part numbers above are for 0.093" pins and i still managed to order wrong! Hey ho!
I've also found a good source for coil wrappers. Mine are looking pretty nasty and a replacement set of wrappers from bayarea would have been about £50 including postage! a little much for me!
Pinballrebel has them all digitised and ready to print on a colour printer. The links on the page load ones with "Williams" written on however if you edit the link and remove the word "text" you get the one with the logo instead. Cue lots of cutting and gluing!!
http://www.pinballrebel.com/pinball/cards/
Nothing much more to say really! I'll update when i have some idea of timescales from Henrik.