polish and wax your car

Not a new article but as this is quite popular and interesting it's worth mentioning the existance of it.
Here you can read about car waxes and polishes, and which ones you can use on your playfields.

There are a lot of different opinions, most people swear by Carnauba wax, others use plain Turtle wax, but synthetic waxes also have their use.
There's no scientific research done (as far as I know) to waxing playfields, but there is a lot of research done to waxing cars, and how to polish them, remove small scratches and haze, ..

Screen printing

Worked yesterday further on my 'secret' article. Almost done now !
I think I will put it online this weekend and if I get new information I'll just update it.

I've added something important: the difference between process and spot screenprinting.
I knew about it before but didn't really research it. Now I did and it's more important than I first thought..
so a quarter of the article completely changed, some new interesting historic details were added, some new pictures, ..

My domain name www.flippers.be exists for 3 years now, so that article is a nice present to myself :)
The content btw is much older, I think I already started in 2000 or 2001 on my personal webspace with the 'newbie pages to pinball' (now renamed to pinball basics).


Something completely different but also pinball-related if it has to be, our fridge came back from the painter yesterday. It looks cool, identical color of the new kitchen cabinets.
The painter said he also has once clearcoated a pinball playfield and it costs about 75 euro to do. Interesting to know !!
I still have a Bally Eight Ball (with The Fonz on the backglass) in almost perfect condition, so when I restore that game it's a good candidate to have the playfield clearcoated.


Still haven't had time to set up the new Whirlwind. The gameroom is in the winter also being used as storage room. First have to take out our bicycles, get rid of the empty cabinet of a Williams JokerZ I parted, and then I can set it up. Can't wait to play it.. but I have to as other things have priority.


The good news is yesterday a set of SafeCracker antiqued tokens arrived. I ordered them last week from http://www.pinball.com Got them in a week, that's pretty fast.
They really look great.
The bad news is that one of them is wrong !!
Instead of the Getaway truck token that was antiqued in the original set (shows a truck in 3D), the Armor Truck token has been antiqued (shows a truck from the side). This Armor Truck token was not antiqued originally..

still working on a new article

Hi world,

I've posted to rec.games.pinball and other forums asking for information about pinball companies For a month now I'm working on a new article for my site and it's going to be very interesting.
But it's still not finished, you'll have to wait a little while.. it just became bigger and bigger, it started with a small topic and the more I got to know about the subject, the more I started to dig in pinball history and the article just included more and more information.
Last friday evening I skyped with someone who was involved with the development of Diamondplate playfield clearcoat. Got some very interesting details !
And while I was talking to him, he got a phone call from Mark Sprenger. Art Director for Williams in the past, he did a lot of artwork for pinball machines like Diner, High Speed, Dracula, Space Shuttle, Banzai Run and many more ! He was even on speakerphone so I could ask him some questions, how cool was that !! (I found it pretty cool - for a guy from a small country that Belgium is to be able to talk to someone involved in pinball design - I'm not able to go to Pinball Expo and meet the designers so this was great)