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Having met Drunken on the site and I knew he worked with and works with graphic design for fun, I asked his help in a project.My 20 year old pinball machine had a broken plastic with an image printed on it. The missing piece long gone since the game was given to me and it was very used at that. With the plastics no longer made and the company long out of business, finding a used piece is slim to none since it is the most broken piece on the machine. The ball hits them and breaks them during play. I scanned the image and asked Drunken of he could create the missing piece from the remaining piece. Needless to say his work is fantastic and he did it quicker than I asked! I cannot tell you thanks enough for bringing life back to a 20 year old machine, I owe you one! I could not have done it without your help. Great member!

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well, you are very welcome sir! i enjoyed doing it!

do we get to see the before?The after looks really good!

This is all I had... I am not sure what that other object is in the PDF, something from the scan.

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The other object appears to be a film negative holder, perhaps on the inside lid of your scanner?That's fantastic work drunken! You're truly a gentleman.Toolguy -- once he created the graphic, how did you get it made into plastic?

here 'tis

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looks good. nice work drunken.

Cool deal man! Looks alright.

Quote, originally posted by jwalcik »looks good. nice work drunken.Ditto!

Quote, originally posted by ragingfish »The other object appears to be a film negative holder, perhaps on the inside lid of your scanner?That's fantastic work drunken! You're truly a gentleman.Toolguy -- once he created the graphic, how did you get it made into plastic?First, I plan to use the clear Lexan scraps from all the fog lamp covers I made. The image will obviously need to be stuck on the backside of the plasticI actually had a few ideas in mind for sticking it to the plastic back... However I stopped at Kinko's on the way back to work and I think I have a winner!Kinko's can do sticky sided laminante sheets. All I did is print a few frogs out on quality paper and Kinko's stuck my printout upside down on the laminate sheet so the sticky side would be on the image front! Looks great and is very clear! $2.50 a sheet.The two "eye" holes in the image are for two screws that hold the plastic to a metal bracket. Once those are fastened down, it should secure it real well.With this method, I can pretty much do any plastic once my admin scans the image, I can print it for a color copy.