Repairing The Backglass Of Bally's 1976 NIGHT RIDER E.M. Pinball Machine - Heavily Damaged Paint !

[@stshort500]

That turned out pretty sweet! Love the EM machines!

[@LyonsArcade]

Thanks for watching stshort500!

[@Ringo1988]

Super Video,....Gruß aus Deutschland!!!👍🤩

[@LyonsArcade]

Thank you Ringo :)

[@simondempsey1]

Great fix on the back glass. I like the Bally's

[@LyonsArcade]

They had a string of fun games, like 30 games long around this time. Pretty amazing.

[@DavidWilliams-rn6uq]

Gotta say Ron, I had my doubts, but that looks great! Dang fine way to salvage an otherwise wasted glass!

[@LyonsArcade]

Thank you David, I thought it worked out pretty well :)

[@mdouglaswray]

Good fix! Looks fine to me

[@LyonsArcade]

Thank you Doug, I appreciate it man :)

[@wirekat]

Great rescue

[@vicmiller7191]

That white made it look very vintage. Looks good and a good fix...thanks for sharing...

[@RetroGamingWithHopper]

The white paint on the back glass is interesting. Thanks Ron.

[@LyonsArcade]

Thank you for watching Hopper

[@themilkmanv]

Great video 📹 👍 love those old restores

[@LyonsArcade]

Thank you Pyro Todd!

[@themilkmanv]

Hey Ron do you have that other Stern Stingray? I need to locate the playfield cards. Any ideas copys

[@jogosProgramEletronica]

nice looking assembly of this machine

[@LyonsArcade]

Thank you Jogos!

[@tcb8295]

Hey Ron, sorry I haven't been commenting on your videos lately... just busy with life. As always. Enjoy your videos.

[@LyonsArcade]

No problem TCB 82, we appreciate you hanging out with us when you can, see you on the next one!

[@jetlaw_1]

Love your videos, Ron. Thank you.

[@LyonsArcade]

Thanks for watching Josh, glad you enjoy them!

[@firemedicjm911]

I now know what you mean about working on the score reels, Just spent 2 hours on them and I am maybe half way there..lol. It can definitely get repetitive but I am really enjoying it! Found some burned tracks on the player up unit, ugh.

[@LyonsArcade]

Burned tracks, that's fun :) You can probably get replacement stepper pcb's depending on how nice you want it, I'd try to use the original one though...

[@firemedicjm911]

@@LyonsArcade Yea, I am going to put jumpers in and see how it goes, 3 burned tracks. Looks like its in the area where the wiper is not wired. Perhaps ground.

[@DirtyRobot]

Just a thought... If you have a local print shop you could download the original art and get them to print it out on acetate. Then just use the print to back the artwork after the clearcoat.

[@LyonsArcade]

Everywhere the paint is still on the backglass though, the color would be darker.

[@DirtyRobot]

@@LyonsArcade If you have an inkjet and some film it might be worth a try on a small section just to see the result

[@DirtyRobot]

@@LyonsArcade I just finished messing around with the idea. As I don't have a backglass I had to make one up. It worked really well with light colors but was more visible with the darks but still not bad. You can get the printer to change the density of the ink and adjust the color to get a nice match.

[@pezjohnson]

bzzzz. Ron your pinball laundry is done. Please pickup your pinball laundry. Thank you.

[@fred_derf]

The back glass looked worlds better than i thought it would. For future back glasses I'm thinking a light grey might be a better colour to use than white, it would have the same basic effect but wouldn't be quite so contrasty. See you tomorrow!

[@fred_derf]

P.S. After painting I think the trucker's jacket just looks like it's weathered.

[@planetwisconsin9901]

Capt. Fantastic. 😐

[@lepinstar1089]

Have you ever tried spray paint after clearing (other than the white you used) instead of the acrylics to cut down on the visibility of the brush strokes? Maybe a light “dusting” might work. Maybe it might block the light. I don’t know.

[@LyonsArcade]

I've done it , but the problem you run into is let's say your painting a red jacket, if you paint that area red you can't get rid of the missing paint, because no matter how thin you put it on, the part that still has paint is darker than the missing flakes. Usually the color isn't a perfect match either... so it ends up looking like this, except darker, you still see all the areas where the paint was missing but now all your other areas are darker. There's just not a good way to save these if they're really badly damaged...

[@GHILLIESARCADEANDMORE]

Cool

[@LyonsArcade]

Thank you Ghillie!

[@memyopinionsche6610]

Up close yeah it looks like the guy's face is melting. But not too bad of a job it works. The lady just looks like she's got freckles. And for a redhead rhat actually does work. And I'm a fan of redheaded women with freckles. So totally cool job.

[@LyonsArcade]

Thank you Me My Opinion Sche!

[@roscoem9178]

@@LyonsArcade a well thought out response to another honest opinion, glad someone else isn’t afraid to voice it and feel the need to kiss a$$ like the rest

[@victorsvarietychannel2459]

Looks better

[@LyonsArcade]

Thank you Victor!

[@madbstard1]

Nice job! Is there bulbs behind the womans T&A cos they look very bright. Might have been an attraction thing....

[@LyonsArcade]

There's bulbs behind most of it but yes the bulbs are directly behind the goodies, i'm sure it was designed like that, though :)

[@pin-monkeypinball3548]

Great job Ron! Never thought about doing that with the glass. Now the truck driver looks even more like Nick Offerman lol. What camera are you using these days to record?

[@frankgagliano9677]

Great video Ronnie, the glass looks great. Do you paint that on top of the display case? If you did that is brave. See you on the next vidoe. Thanks Ronnie.

[@memyopinionsche6610]

I remember back in the day at my local arcade they would have a combination of em and solid state pinball machines. And I would get there just when they're opening up but before they turned on all the machines. I would pay attention to the EM's and see which ones still had credits when the game room closed down for the night. And leave credits on the machine. Yeah I found a loophole in the system. Free games for me.

[@walterclement4861]

Oh and will send u a pic of Expressway backglass

[@walterclement4861]

You can check out the KZbin video that I posted a couple of yrs ago. Bally Expressway game play with new translite. I paid 200.00 for the print and masking and bout 25 for the 2 pieces of plexi that I used

[@izzynutz2000]

Hey Ron didn't Bally offer a tool kit at one time in order to service EM pinball machines? Seems to me that the place that I worked at that repaired pinball and video games the man used to have a kit that was in a folding pouch that had the Bally logo on the front of it and you opened it up and it had all the little tools, files and contact adjustment tools and the little anvil to where you could replace the points, you file it off and then you put a new point on the end of the arm and then you had a pair of pliers to where you could put the point back on the arm and you could squeeze it and it would peen it so that you could actually put a new contact point on the solenoid? Or would that have been something that he would have put together in a little pouch that would be cool to be able to get that again...

[@peter486]

these "back drops" are they all hand painted ? or some sort of reflief? are there any orginal files somewhere?

[@ChrisPatrickRC]

maybe a table with a light under it, to put the glass ontop to shine threw from the bottom up, and Airbrush custom match the colors and spray each color individually , then clear over it all to protect it . yes its alot more labor but i would think it would get your "close" to being original ....

[@LyonsArcade]

I'm doing it in my showroom, no airbrushes spraying shit all over the place in here, sorry :)

[@101fng]

The problem is you’re not just having to color match, but you also have to match the paint’s light transmission. It’s just not worth the effort when repainting from scratch would probably be easier by that point.

[@ChrisPatrickRC]

@@LyonsArcade no worries, just thinking outside the box , and with modern paints its honestly not bad at all , but I also understand your point. Keep up the good videos and love the channel. One day ill get my channel up there... slowly and surely its growing

[@naytch2003]

Well his brother Donnie is the mayor of Jefferson dontcha know 😁

[@LyonsArcade]

He's not mayor he wouldn't want to be, that's a lot of work!

[@naytch2003]

@@LyonsArcade I know was just kidding:)

[@zuhr9871]

Have you ever had a Cosmic Avenger in the store?

[@LyonsArcade]

I’ve never even seen one!

[@zuhr9871]

@@LyonsArcade neither have I. I want one 🤣

[@808v1]

yes...an 'effect'

[@22drzoom]

Any specific white paint?

[@srfrg9707]

By adding some red or brown to the white you should at least match the skin color of the girl.

[@LyonsArcade]

I definitely think you should do that!

[@roscoem9178]

@@LyonsArcade you don’t take criticism we’ll do you

[@viscountalpha]

The backglass should go to someone who does art restoration. But it's not worth that. Its a shame you cant digitally fix it and then print a silkscreen overlay.

[@lileveretteyoakumiii]

Yodelayheehoo

[@LyonsArcade]

Hello Lil Everette!

[@katenunyabizness9221]

That's the most off model Hasselhoff I've ever seen...

[@katenunyabizness9221]

It was a joke. However Knightriders is a 1981 George A. Romero movie about a traveling troupe that jousts on motorcycles.

[@naytch2003]

@@simonbrehm358 yes the toecutters gang member..if I recall he was the first one to die

[@demofilm]

ther girl could be from restaurant flakey joe's . and the truck driver spotty night rider.. but indeed it does look a lot better. great game, great job!

[@LyonsArcade]

Thank you demofilmpuntnl :)