My friend is in the auto business, and could easily clear coat playfields. However he's never done it, nor have I, so have 3 questions. 1. Anyone have experience and advice spraying clearcoat on a playfield? 2. Anyone have playfields for sale that we can practice on? 3. If we perfected the process, would it be a service that you would be interested in, and what is it worth to do the job? He paints cars for a living so can't see a playfield being too difficult.
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Standard cost for just clear coat is $200 + shipping.
If he can do touchups the price goes up from there, I've paid $750 do have a TAF playfield touched up and CC and I paid $500 to have my Fish Tales playfield touched up and CC.
If he is any good at it then yes there is a market it for it, my next playfield going out will be a No Fear and I was going to do my White Water until I heard the playfields are going to be reprod.
Also there are really only 4 playfield restorers right now, PFR, Bill Davis, HSA, Captian Neo.
PFR isn't excepting work.
Bill Davis has a year back log.
Captian Neo and HSA are the only viable options, that and the fact it would stay in Canada and save on taxes is also a plus, but would have to see what the work is like first.
1. Anyone have experience and advice spraying clearcoat on a playfield?
It would depend on the game you are clearing.
sys11 .. tends to delaminate from the inserts if not properly prepped WPC .. usually no problem if the inserts are level otherwise you will get sinking around them.
The rest would be general clear coat knowledge that your guy should already have
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