1973 Nishijin Model B Restore

[Grizzly Adam]

I have been working on restoring the machine Dad and I traded for a used washing machine back in the '90s. It was in pretty poor shape. So far I have stripped it down, removed the water damaged playfield, removed there plies from the backboard that were punky, glued on new plies, routered to match the other plies, and sealed. I also retro-brited some parts, repainted the nameplate, polished all the visible metal, and waxed all the plastic I currently have removed. Finally, I repainted the knuckle guard and the finger grip.
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[Grizzly Adam]

I am going to do some light sanding to make sure my paint is nice and smooth and then put down a vinyl playfield tomorrow and then start reassembling and touching up paint/adding black light paint. I am adding a blacklight strip inside the cabinet and converting it to run the blacklight and the new led bulbs on 4.5v. It will get all new wiring as well.

[takethecastle57]

First rate workmanship ! I can't wait to see the finished machine .

And a and biscuits award for your endeavor

[sparky kilowatt]

Nice work, keep posting pictures as you progress.

[Grizzly Adam]

We made a lot of progress. Here she is fitting the background. The one I ordered actually didn't line up right, but I caught it and was able to adjust for it. There will be nothing visibly amiss inside the playfield. We used the extra scrap at the bottom to try to protect the wood better-- I layered them as one does shingles so any water would roll over instead of under.



I forgot to get a pic with everything cut out, but I got one shortly after.


I made a super-accurate depth gauge for the nails.


Here is where I stopped for tonight. I am short a few nails and she is still touching up the paint. The pinwheels are being painted to look like targets, the nail in the center will be painted red.

[MrGneiss]

Looking good so far!!


There was an error with what I think was your last picture that I had to remove.. So you may want to repost!!

It posted 2,859,141 random characters instead of the pic!! It happens sometimes..

[Grizzly Adam]

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[Grizzly Adam]

To hold the races, I used 22gauge galvanized wire as James King suggested in his book "Pachinko Machine Restoration." However, when it came time to twist the wire I did not use aviation safety pliers as suggested, instead I loaded a screw hook into the chuck of my drill, wrapped both ends of the wire around that hook 3 times, and engaged the drill until the wire was a tight twist. I then secured the twist wire to the back of the board using 3/8" staples. It worked really slickly, and by using a hook instead of an eyelet, I could just slide the wire off the end of the hook instead of having to untwist the end. Picture of hook below.

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