Are You Cleaning Your Pinball Machine Wrong? Pinball Playfield Maintenance Made Easy!
Summary
Home pinball maintenance guide: playfield waxing, rubber cleaning, plastic polishing, glass care.
Wild Dog Arcade host demonstrates home pinball machine maintenance techniques, covering playfield care, rubber cleaning, plastic polish, and glass cleaning. The video emphasizes avoiding aggressive polishing on thin clear coats and recommends specific products (Jet Seal, carnauba wax, Meguiar's Show Car Glaze, Mother's plastic polish, Sparkle glass cleaner) and microfiber cloths for different machine types and surfaces.
How should you actually clean your pinball machine — and should you be polishing the playfield? We’ve gotten a lot of questions about basic pinball cleaning and maintenance, so in this video we’re going over what we do to keep our machines clean and playing well. We’ll cover the playfield, flippers, slings, rubber rings and other areas that collect dirt and grime during regular play. We’ll also talk about something we’ve seen come up quite a bit: polishing the playfield. IS it something you should be doing, or could you be doing more harm than good??? Whether you just bought your first pinball machine or you’ve owned pins for years, this is a quick 6-minute guide to some of the basic cleaning and maintenance every owner should know. And as always, if you have your own cleaning routine, products you swear by, or maintenance tips we missed, tell us about them in the comments!
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