Yo. I’ve been working on the Baby Pac playfield for the past few days as time permits and am almost done with it. I placed an order with PBResource.com that came in today!

The new drop targets are awesome:

I also ordered a rubber kit, 2 balls, Novus to clean the plastics, and 4 boxes of bulbs. I’m not sure what I was thinking when I ordered the bulbs. He sells them in 100 packs. I almost ordered 100, but figured I would save money and order 4 boxes of 10. At the time I thought that was plenty, but when I counted later I’m way off. I have 2 extra boxes for arcade games and hope that that will be just enough.

I couldn’t find new spinners or decals for the spinners anywhere. Someone used to sell them awhile back but no longer does. Here’s what mine looked like:

As you can see, they are pretty worn out. The art on the top was missing on both. I brought that image into Photoshop and touched it up. Here’s the final result:

I printed a couple out on glossy photo paper using my Epson R300 printer, cut them out very carefully, and stuck them with double sided tape on the spinners. Then, I used mailing tape to cover the entire face of each spinner, wrapping it around the back. I had to trim it with an exacto knife so the tape wasn’t visible. The pic below shows the spinners afterwards (but before I cleaned up the metal and replaced the rubber rings).

I’ll throw the file for those up on my downloads page for anyone that needs it shortly.

I have most of the parts back on the playfield, and will probably finish it tomorrow. Most of the plastics were pretty warped:

I read some posts on the rec.games.pinball news group explaining how to flatten bent plastics in the oven. I was very scared to try this, but I did and it worked great:

I started with the small pieces, which are all done. I have 3 big pieces to do tomorrow. Cross your fingers!

Here’s the process I followed:

1. Clean the plastics extremely well. Any dust or fingerprints will end up on these permanently

2. Get a non stick cookie sheet. Make sure it’s clean.

3. Put the oven on 200, and put the plastics upside down on the cookie sheet. The painted side will be on top.

4. Put the plastics in the oven, and keep an eye on it. After 5 or 6 minutes, the plastic will start to drop down and flatten. As soon as that happens, remove the cookie sheet.

5. Take the plastics off the sheet and put them on top of a plain white piece of paper on your countertop. Put another piece of paper on top, then a heavy book. On top of the book you might want to put something else that’s heavy to weigh it down well.

6. Wait 30 mins, and then check ‘em out. Hopefully your’s won’t be all bubbly and ruined like your mother’s lasagna.