Cleaning And Waxing a 1963 Gottlieb SWING ALONG Pinball Machine - Beautiful Old Game

ladies and gentlemen this is joe's classic video games back with another cool pinball repair video for you this evening now this is gottlibs 1963 swing along pinball machine we've been working on this sucka for several days now so if you didn't see those videos go check them out before you watch this one we did a video where we kind of cleaned it up and cleaned all the switches and all that stuff and then we did a video where we repaired it and got it up and running and then we did a video where we installed all of the parts that we got in and we worked on the back glass a little bit and some light bulbs and things and now we are up to the point where we need to work on the play field a little bit so we're going to do a video showing you what happened when we worked on the playfield which we haven't done yet but we're going to do right now now the thing is in pretty good shape already but it needs a good cleaning and has a couple issues that need addressed and then it needs new rubber bands of course so that's what we're going to do so this is what we're starting with we'll get a good a nice good uh record of how it began so the first thing you notice is that here by the flippers they have put these semi-circles on those usually are made for to put around pot bumpers it's literally a sticker and normally i might take those off but the thing is if i do there must be a reason those are on there so there's probably wear underneath them so we're just going to leave them this particular game someone's already purchased it and they basically wanted to take it home with them the way it was but we insisted no no no we got it we got to work on it a little bit because you know we don't wanna let it get out of the get out of the door without being a hundred percent right so uh we uh we have to get it a little bit better off but we are so my whole point is some people might not like those but the customer that we're selling to is happy with everything the way it is so we're going to leave them yeah so that we don't have to deal with whatever horror is under them this was the first game with spinning targets so we have three spinning targets here one of them's missing we took it off but we have three spinning targets here that uh do their thing so we've got to mess with those a little bit uh and um up here everything looks pretty good they've put those same stickers around the skirts of the pop bumpers some of the pop bumpers are chewed up a little bit that purple one in particular has a little couple of chips out of it but that doesn't really affect gameplay and i don't have any purple ones and if i did get a purple one it wouldn't match the pop bumper cap so it's one of those things where we're going to leave it for now if it keeps getting worse and it ends up back to us we'll come up with a different solution but but pretty much everything works there is a lane guard there a rollover guard light shield whatever you want to call it that's broke so we need one of those but although the plastics look pretty good everything's pretty nice it just all needs cleaned and serviced and all the light bulbs replaced and waxed and all of that good stuff so the very first thing we're going to do is we're going to take everything off of the playfield and then we're going to come set it over here on our knight rider knight rider this one's coming up you will see a video of it soon that's vintage dirt i'm being repaired sounds like something uh a character in uh alice's wonderland would would say that's vintage dirt i'm being repaired maybe the mock turtle we called him a tortoise well why did you call him a tortoise when he he was a turtle because he taught us okay so i'm going to set up the uh camera the the tripod and then we'll take everything off the play field and see what it what it looks like when it gets down to the bare wood [Music] okay folks this is what we're starting with the thing is pretty clean it's you know you could have got away with just wax again but i like to see what's underneath everything so here we are these two bulbs aren't on but it's because they've already been hit so they've lit up those two oh and by the way i do i always do this with the lights on and everything you're better off doing it with everything turned off we just do it with the lights on so it makes a better video looks more interesting all right so the next thing i'm going to do is i'm just going to easily clean it i'm going to wipe it down with a wet towel paper towel and just clean it up a little bit and then we're going to use a magic eraser very lightly on the play field not go crazy because if you go crazy you'll lose art but there's areas like this see all those swirls from the ball so you didn't see any of that until i got close did you so all of that can be cleaned up slightly with a magic eraser it'll make it look better so you can see the age if you get really close so while it looks good from a distance especially when it doesn't focus but while it looks good from a dis distance it it is not great whenever you get down close to it so um so let me wipe it down though first with a wet paper towel and then we'll see what it looks like after that so this is how it looks after just wiping it down you can see that that doesn't get rid of the heavy dirt there's just no way to get it out of there so the reason that you use a magic eraser is because it's a foam that's little teeny tiny just the way it's made is it's so small smaller than a regular foam and that foam gets down inside of those little cracks those are actually cracks in the top coat of the paint and you see they're circular because i leaned on the switch you can see they're circular because the uh the ball is you know rolling around eating into the paint and making these little cracks so this foam helps get down inside of those and clean them up a little bit but if you go too crazy it's basically very light sandpaper but it works better than sandpaper because it's a finer material so if you use sandpaper it would just take the paint off well if you use this too much it'll take the paint off so you got to be very very careful and stuff like this uh purple here if you look it now if you're any good with color if you look this entire playfield is yellowed there's like a yellow cast over the whole play field so that purple at one time would have been a lot brighter um but it's yellow so either i don't know if like the clear coat over it has yellowed people have said nicotine does it but it this is something that won't come off so i mean it's it's like something in the paint has yellow but uh it that's what gives it that kind of vintage look is everything's yellow so look at the look at the wood it's all yellow you can see where it's cut through that varnish it's more of a white color so all of the paint has that same yellowed color on it so if you if you get on his jacket too much what's going to happen is you're going to cut through the varnish and then the paint underneath it is not going to be yellow anymore so it'll be more purple and that little spot will look brand new and the rest of it will have a yellow tint to it so don't go crazy with the magic eraser so all i'm going to do is i'm going to wet it a little bit you can use alcohol on it too but that makes it even stronger i'm trying i'm trying to just barely use it to clean it up so i'm going to get the magic eraser a little bit wet and then i'm going to clean it up and just do some problem spots but again i'm going to go very lightly on it so let's see how it looks after we clean it up with the magic [Music] okay so now it has a haze all over everything from the magic eraser but you can see that it really does a good job in cleaning up like the fender skirts and stuff um and you saw us making the guy's face look a lot better you can see the swirl the cracks are still there but they just don't have dirt in them anymore let me see if i can get the focus better i want you to see the actual cracks yeah see it so the cracks are still there but they don't have dirt in them anymore so now that they're clean you put a nice wax on it and theoretically the wax keeps dirt from being able to get back down in the cracks and keeps it nice and clean and pretty looking okay so next uh we're going to wipe it down with rag again to get all of the haze off of it and then we're just going to wax wax wax wax wax wax wax and we'll see how she turns out now you know sometimes i touch up some paint there is a little bit of worn paint stuff like this i'm not worried about stuff like this there it is cracked around the you can't see it so it is cracked away around the light bulbs but those are under the um the rollover shields anyways so you can't hardly tell and uh whenever i i touch them up if i think it will make the thing look better i don't think it'll if i touch that up i don't think it would help anything it'd be a lot of work and i don't think that you'd end up with a nicer machine this one has some wear on it but remember the i probably didn't mention it on this video but if you've been watching all the videos someone has repainted it and done a pretty crummy job really so the thing you know it has its little flaws so spending a ton of time getting this to look just a little bit better even if i was capable of getting it to look a little bit better just isn't worth it on this machine it would act it'll actually look pretty nice with just a little bit of minor wear here and there makes it look old right but you can also see how there's a little less of that yellow sheen all over everything just because we cleaned it all up pretty wild okay so uh i'll wipe it back down and then we'll let's start on the wax what do you think about that [Music] [Music] [Music] um [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] [Music] do [Music] do [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] so so [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] do [Music] do all right so i got it all back together it's all on there and it's looking pretty good let's see how the guy's face turned out pretty good the spinners this was the first game of spinners so the spinners are a little worn but you know what they spin pretty good so all of that seems good um hmm the flipper here though this one's down too low or i guess uh maybe this one's up too high hmm do you need a wide shot or a more narrow shot i guess i'll drop this one just slightly to make it match that one there's something about that being lined up with that looks right that looks a little off so i'll drop this one a little bit so we'll adjust the flipper and then we gotta print cards for the apron and then we'll see how she comes out let me show you how we adjust the flipper though so on one of the other videos we already did under the play field but whenever they repainted it and you know somebody must have worked through this game not too long ago because they repainted it and whatever they did they worked on the flippers a little bit so they don't really need any parts or anything they're working fine or i believe they are but to adjust that you loosen these two little set screws on this pawl and then once you get them both loose you can you can move the thing however you want it up here so i'll move it till i get it lined up like the other one is and then we'll tighten it back up okay folks we're going to play it just for a minute because we got to test it out right now i'm going to do a whole other video of playing this sucker uh whenever we uh after we get it all done we still got a little bit of stuff left but pretty much we're ready to go so we'll test play it a little bit though just to make sure it looks like everything is working since we spent so much time on the playbook but we'll do a whole other video looking at the looking at the rules and all of that it looks like the main issue is that there are four stand-up targets of different colors and whenever you hit them it turns on the pop bumpers to make them worth 10 points instead of one point and then i believe it lights up these ones that are worth 50 points as well so let's see if she works i got zero point [Music] right down the middle you can't hit that one i mean there's a little bit of a distance between there right the target got stuck upside down there for a minute you got to watch that middle one it looks like that looks like that middle when i make you drain 76 points ball three but ball one didn't even count there's my green one oh let's let it right past me 114 points ball four [Music] now on this one [Music] on this one you know they're actually called swinging targets because this is a goblet swing along so from now on i'm not calling them spinners anymore these are i'm gonna call them swingers from now on this thing's pretty sweet really [Music] oh ah all right so there you go folks i got 476 points on our first game but that's pretty good i think it's coming along pretty nicely what do you think so i hope you've enjoyed it so far like i said we'll do another one of us actually playing it and all that stuff but i think uh i think we're definitely getting there we just about got it got it ready to go um we got to clean it up a little bit more i didn't have to print this it was just turned over backwards and since it's the original ones you know i'd rather leave those i've got card paper and stuff i can print them but they never look they never look like they're original you know they're only original once people an interesting thing about this game that i've noticed is that it carries over so you hit these four targets to turn on different stuff and it carries over from game to game whenever you get all four of them lit up they're only good for that ball and then this lights up and says 100 points resets targets when lit and whenever you drain that whatever ball that is that you got all four of them lit up on it finally resets them but that might be 15 balls from now if it's on the third game it just depends on you know depends on how the thing plays so i guess the strategy would be to get three of them lit up and try not to touch the other one if you're good enough to aim like that all right so leave your comments below let us know what you think make sure to give us a thumbs up for taking the trouble to film it for you and we'll do another video like i said of us actually playing it more uh putting it through its motions more and checking out all the rules and all the artwork and everything um so look for that and we'd like to thank everybody that's been using our amazon links if you don't know about that there is a link to amazon.com down below if you go to that we sent you there and so they give us a tip for anything you might choose to buy on amazon while you are there so that's been pretty cool a lot of people have been doing that and uh thank you thank you thank you if uh uh if you haven't yet 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