Cleaning and waxing the playfield
Steps
- Remove the glass and balls and take off as many plastics as is practical, sketching where each one goes.
- Clean with a pinball playfield cleaner or a good furniture cleaner; never use water or water-based cleaners, which ruin paint and wood.
- Test any cleaner on a hidden spot first and keep watching for paint lifting.
- Apply a pinball wax or furniture wax and buff. Plastic polishes are commonly used on mylar-covered playfields.
- Refit the plastics. Repeat every few months.
Systems
- Williams System 3
- Williams System 4
- Williams System 6 / 6A
- Williams System 7
- Williams System 9
- Williams System 11
- Williams System 11A
- Williams System 11B
- Williams System 11C
- WPC Alpha-Numeric
- WPC Dot Matrix
- WPC Fliptronics
- WPC DCS
- WPC-Security (WPC-S)
- WPC-95
- Bally MPU AS-2518-17
- Bally MPU AS-2518-35
- Stern MPU-100
- Stern MPU-200
- Bally 6803
- Gottlieb System 1
- Gottlieb System 80
- Gottlieb System 80A
- Gottlieb System 80B
- Gottlieb System 3
- Data East CPU Version 1/2
- Data East CPU Version 3
- Data East/Sega CPU Version 3b
- Capcom
- Electro-mechanical
Related tips
- Cleaning and waxing an EM playfield
- Playfield cleaning and waxing supplies
- Cleaning and waxing a WPC playfield
- Routine playfield and glass cleaning
- Cleaning up after a broken playfield glass
- Playfield glass sizes
- Yellowed or bubbled playfield mylar
- Playfield glass must be tempered
Source: Pinball Machine Care & Maintenance, Bernard B. Kamoroff (Bell Springs Pinball Alley)