Carnival
Queen
By okorange
8 MONTHS AGO
#51 6 months ago
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Ready to begin cleaning
the interior cab and the guts. Looks like a rather large mess, eh?
3 weeks
later
#52 5 months ago
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Finished with the
interior cabinet. Initially my intent was to give it a good cleaning, but
scrubbing and even sanding would not remove all of the cigarette ashes, liquid
residue and whatever other dirt and crap had accumulated in there over the
years, especially by the player controls. Every last piece was taken out and
cleaned well, including all of the switches, and everything was painted . Thank
goodness for digital photography, getting things back together again without it
would be a lot harder. Here's a couple more photos of what it looked like
before, and the after photos taken today. Lockdown is finished as well. I left
the carriage bolts a little loose because they'll have to come out again once
the painting begins at some point. I find it easier to leave the screws in
their place when painting, and then removing them and cleaning the paint off rather
than searching for obscured screw holes later. Next will be the inside of the
head unit.
#53 5 months ago
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Master !!
#54 5 months ago
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Phil, what a fantastic
job your doing!!! 
Terry K
#55 5 months ago
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Thanks guys. A snail's
pace but that's about all I can do. Just a hobby...
#56 5 months ago
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Thought I'd throw this in
now. The playfield on the right was taken out of the machine I'm restoring, I
almost have it totally stripped. Very very dirty and why waste time if you
don't have to? The one on the left came out of a parts machine with too many
hacks and a destroyed cabinet. The colors are vibrant and the amount of
cleaning will be minimal (comparatively). It does help to accumulate stuff over
the years, you never know when you'll need it! Interestingly, the serial number
of the playfield from the game is in the 1400's. The replacement, believe it or
not, is only one number off from the rest of the machine.
#57 5 months ago
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That spare playfield
looks real nice and must have felt great to pull it out of your stock parts
inventory.I am sure it will be the "icing on the cake" at the end of
your restoration. Keep up the great work!
#58 5 months ago
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Cleaning the legs up. As
far as I know, Carnival Queen was the only bingo that came with white metal
legs from the factory.
#59 5 months ago
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It's amazing how light
this is when everything is removed.
#60 5 months ago
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Computer artwork is
completed for the stencils. I use a Canon Lide 220 scanner with the top removed
to create scans and then stitch them together, clean up the colors and create
the layers. From these samples, I can "stroke" the outsides with
black lines and it is easy to cut the stencils out from there with an Exacto. I
overlap colors where possible to avoid breaks in the intended scheme as much as
possible. The colors represented here are not necessarily the actual colors
being laid down, but close.
#61 5 months ago
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Playfield in progress as
well. I use Gel Gloss for the intial cleaning, then a Magic Eraser wetted with
LA Awesome and finally Meguiar's Cleaner Wax to bring the shine. Parts are
polished up and ready for reinstallation.
#62 4 months ago
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Wow...
The boxes I am considering for repaint are loosing the paint in chips. I
thought of tracing patterns and then making stencils. What material did you use
for the stencils?
What was the process for removing all from the boxes? I thought
masking would do the trick. I`m not thinking of spraying. Rollers and brushes.
Thanks for listing the play field cleanup process.
1 week
later
#63 4 months ago
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The playfield is
completed and ready to install once the rest of this beast is completed. The
one from the parts game was in pretty good shape. Looking good, really no wear
but, of course, the usual dirt. Didn't anyone ever clean these games? Anyway,
everything is cleaned up and shined. The lamp shields are new, I think they
came from Belgium. I've had them in inventory for a long time. At first glance
the instruction cards on the apron looked good, but they've been swapped out
with cards I Photoshopped many years ago. It was necessary, the third photo
shows "Press Buttons After Shooting 5th Ball". That didn't happen on
Carnival Queen, Bally was too worried about it with the screen movement. They
capitulated after it hurt play on this game and reinstituted the feature on Sea
Island, the next game up. I used the arch from the original game because
someone had glued a Formica strip to prevent wear on the other one. Not
happening. Those marks from hundreds of thousands if not more than a million
balls running through that track are almost impossible to remove. I've found
it's best to clean as well as possible and let it go, despite my pinball OCD.
#64 4 months ago
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Nice work - the playfield
looks wonderful. You've got a hell of a parts bin!
#65 4 months ago
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Always looking for parts.
I bought an NOS Bounty
glass (thanks Roger) six years before I located the game itself. I started a
thread a few months ago advertising my quest for NOS parts,
but not much came of it. Always buying if it's the right deal.
2 weeks
later
#66 4 months ago
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So things are
progressing. I went to York to see the bingo row and hang out a bit, then some
more family issues. Wow, this is taking me a long time. That's pretty normal.
Anyway, painting has begun. Here's the cut out stencils for the cab sides. Head
paint is just about completed.
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Hey BPC can you upload a
pic of what you mean. I just checked all of the other games here and they all
are configured the way I have set the CQ.
#69 4 months ago
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Computer artwork is completed for the stencils. I use a Canon
Lide 220 scanner with the top removed to create scans and then stitch them together,
clean up the colors and create the layers. From these samples, I can
"stroke" the outsides with black lines and it is easy to cut the
stencils out from there with an Exacto. I overlap colors where possible to
avoid breaks in the intended scheme as much as possible. The colors represented
here are not necessarily the actual colors being laid down, but close.
I'm really enjoying the
restoration details you go into and the great photos you post. Can't you work
faster so we can see more. 
Did you hold your scanner against the sides of your cabinet
before you (more likely an assistant) started the scan software? Or did you
somehow lay the cabinet on top of the scanner? Great idea.
#70 4 months ago
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Check your photo on the
left in Post #56. That's the correct orientation.
#71 4 months ago
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Gor it. Thanks for the
input guys. I get so wrapped up in this stuff I miss dumb things like this! I actually
looked at my other games and still didn't see it. As to the scanner...it's
easier to lay flat if you can but the cab sides were done upright holding the
scanner against the paint. It's very light and one person can operate the whole
deal. @ bingopodcast cancel the photo request!!
#72 4 months ago
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BTW this scanner will
work upside down so instead of laying the cab on the scanner you can do it the
easy way, scanner flat facing down on cab.