Then the heat is applied melting the color layers to the glass, bonding it permanently to the glass. The vacuum sucks out the air bubbles, forcing the new artwork onto the glass. Last the glass is put into a vacuum oven. The area of the glass to be restored is scrapped clean (or if the glass is a total loss, a new tempered sheet of glass of the proper thickness and size is used), and the two prints laid on the glass. Then the back lit mask layer is printed on a clear mylar. After the artwork is scanned and clean up on the computer (both the front color layer and the back mask layer), the color layer is printed on a special paper. The process for repairing/restoring a glass is multiple steps. But for a few brands *we do* need your original glass to proceed (your original needs to be destroyed if we supply a new glass.) Really there’s no way around this, sorry.
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We have a license for Williams and Bally, so we don’t need your original glass on those titles. Some makers (Gottlieb mostly), we need your original glass to restore. These include most games by Williams, Bally, Chicago Coin, United, Zaccaria, classic Stern, Genco, Gameplan, etc.
Note that some titles we can provide new glass (restored on new proper thickness tempered glass). We can even do custom glasses with specific modifications, if you so desire. And what about that weird game that you own, and that game no one else seems to have? The companies making reissue backglasses aren’t going to re-pop your game’s score glass, because they just won’t sell enough to warrant the work and expense. Often reissue glasses get sold out with no hope of a re-run, leaving you with no choice but to restore the original glass. Additionally reissue glasses are re-made in runs of about 10 to 100 units. But what you’ll find is this generally is only offered for games that are very popular. If this is available for your game, you should take advantage of that.
Yes there are a number of companies providing “reissue” silk screened backglasses for pinball machines. The advantage to this service is in the case of rare games. Only pinball and classic EM arcade games.Ī “before” original glass, ready for restoration. If you would like to see what work we have done, check out our Backglass Blog of past work (or just look at the list of glasses we’ve done at the end of this page.) Note we do NOT restore slot machine glass, so please don’t ask. Or if the glass is too damanged, we can re-do the entire glass. Using this technique, much like shown by Alan Lewis, we can repair an original glass. It looks like much like silk screening, and back lit, it does have a slightly different look (our new process starting March 2013 is nearly identical in “look” to silk screening.) Note we do NOT print to a translite – our process bonds right to the glass.
Then the artwork is re-printed either in its entirety or sections onto the original glass (or new tempered glass if doing an entire restoration.) Note this isn’t silk screen, it is a digital process. Once in the computer, we correct the flaws and missing artwork that has been damaged due to time, wear, scratches and delamination. This involved scanning in the original artwork. At we restore and repair the artwork on pinball backbox back glass score glasses.
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