Pinball restoration and technical info
Learn to clean and repair your pinball machine. Pinball machines need maintenance. If you have bought a dirty, used pinball machine, you can learn to clean it yourself. Polish and clean parts, repaint worn areas, and you can make your pinball machine look and play (almost) as brand new again.
Flame polishing
How to make ramps and plastics as new.. at your own risk !
Repair melted ramps
When flamepolishing goes wrong.. you fix it.
Tumblers
Polish and clean metals parts without doing it manually.
Restore or 'shop' article
How to 'shop': clean and restore a pinball machine - introduction.
Restore part 1
Part 1, remove parts from the playfield.
Restore part 2
Part 2, clean parts.
Restore part 3
Part 3, clean and restore a playfield.
Restore part 4
Part 4, assemble and adjust.
Restore part 5
Part 5, the cabinet.
Congo
How to repair a broken volcano on your Congo pinball machine.
Wax wars
Information about waxing your pinball playfield.
Ball trough problems
Detecting problems with optos in the ball trough.
Addams Family mansion decal
Mansion decal installation on an Addams Family playfield.
Switch tester tool
An easy way to solve switch matrix problems on WPC pinball games.
Use the service plug
How to make an adaptor for the service plug on WPC games.
Stern TOPS
How to connect a Stern TOPS system in Europe.
TZ clock
How to disassemble the clock of your Twilight Zone pinball machine.
Global Illumination
What is it and how to repair ?
Apron repaint
Restore a worn apron like new
Fridge repaint
Give your old fridge or other kitchen appliance a new color.
New WPC95 DMD plastic cover
Install a new DMD protective plastic on WPC-95.
Install a speech pcb on Orbitor One
Install the optional VSU-100 speech pcb in Stern Orbitor One pinball game.
Magic Tokens on Safe Cracker
How Magic Tokens are recognised on Ballys Safe Cracker.
Fix a playfield sag
How to build a brace to make a sagged playfield even again..
Touchup playfield damage
How to touchup and clearcoat playfield damage..
Gottlieb Majorettes restoration
Repair log of how I restore this pinball machine...
Make a playfield rotisserie NEW
A playfield tipper is a good tool when you often work on pinball playfields..