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Loving the plastic polish.


knight76

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I'm working my way through the judge dredd cleaning bits and pieces.

 

Currently the playfield is stripped and I have started cleaning up the ramps.

 

Man, the plastic polish really cleans up the ramps.

 

Before

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y242/knight76/Pinball/Judge%20Dredd/DSC08622a.jpg

 

After

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y242/knight76/Pinball/Judge%20Dredd/DSC08623a.jpg

 

It's amazing how much crud they pick up considering they are in an enclosed case.

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I did take some pics of it before hand. It was fairly dirty all round. I'll take some more when I get through cleaning and it is back together again.

 

I cleaned up the metal flap and ramp protector pieces with Meguiars nxt generation all Metal Polysh. It works well.

 

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Tonight I have to clean up the main plastic ramp that goes all around the outside of the JD. Now, mine like many is broken at the right hand inlanes which means instead of feeding to the in lane down to the flippers it tends to just bounce out of there past the sling.

 

My choice here is to buy a new ramp from pinball spare parts for $60. + shipping, or to buy a ramp patch kit for $40 + shipping.

 

My concern is the new ramp does not have any of the decals and I don't think you can buy them.

 

The new JD ramp is here: http://www.pinballspareparts.com.au/index.php?crn=272&rn=2255&action=show_detail

 

Does anybody know if the ramp decals are for sale anywhere?

 

Otherwise if the ramp decals are not around anymore, what would you do? I am leaning towards getting the patch kit so the ramp retains the decal look.

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I picked up a set of ramp decals Jas, but they were bloody expensive ant the last set the bloke had. I have never seen them for sale except for this set.

Dave

 

I did take some pics of it before hand. It was fairly dirty all round. I'll take some more when I get through cleaning and it is back together again.

 

I cleaned up the metal flap and ramp protector pieces with Meguiars nxt generation all Metal Polysh. It works well.

 

---------- Post added at 08:38 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:23 AM ----------

 

Tonight I have to clean up the main plastic ramp that goes all around the outside of the JD. Now, mine like many is broken at the right hand inlanes which means instead of feeding to the in lane down to the flippers it tends to just bounce out of there past the sling.

 

My choice here is to buy a new ramp from pinball spare parts for $60. + shipping, or to buy a ramp patch kit for $40 + shipping.

 

My concern is the new ramp does not have any of the decals and I don't think you can buy them.

 

The new JD ramp is here: http://www.pinballspareparts.com.au/index.php?crn=272&rn=2255&action=show_detail

 

Does anybody know if the ramp decals are for sale anywhere?

 

Otherwise if the ramp decals are not around anymore, what would you do? I am leaning towards getting the patch kit so the ramp retains the decal look.

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new ramp, plus print your own custom decals?

 

I was thinking maybe new ramp. And then freeze spraying the old decals off the ramps. Scanning them and printing a new set.

 

I have to look in to the freeze spray idea to see if it would work or wreck my decals.

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I have the same worry - luckily a little hidden cable tie fixed my ramp and didnt have to go through the trouble of new decals....

 

Looked everywhere - cant find em - but you may want these :)

 

http://pinballdecals.com/JDTargetDecalsPage.html

 

This guy was selling the ramp decals - but sold out!

 

Im still waiting for my traget decals - should be here soon though.

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I found Novus 3 pack from rtbb was the cheapest and most effective - mine came up looking like that and no joke they looked even worse to begin with - I had to actually wash my hands after I did each one they were that dirty....
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Thanks for the guides guys, morrieman also sent me a guide via PM which is appreciated.

 

Yet to make up my mind which way to go. On that ramp there is three small decals to remove so should not take too much effort to get them off.

 

I am going to give the existing ramp a clean up tonight and see how that comes out, though no amount of polish can fix the broken part.

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Just found this. This is the stuff I used, Works good. http://home.earthlink.net/~billg4me/pinball/467MP/

 

Yeah that stuff looks the goods.

 

To be honest my main concern with buying the new ramp is the amount of scratches it may have already from storage.

 

Are they likely to be fairly bad, or just in line with the existing ramps scratched from normal use?

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