Initial Mylar removal

Just a quick update. My friend decided that we should go ahead and try to remove the mylar. I decided to remover the small separate mylar under the pops first to see how the paint would fair as a trial run. Here are some before pics:

This is some pretty bad bubbling 

Dirt has worked its way underneath and is so built up

I really like this picture for some reason, its like I am far away looking at a rippling pool

So how did it go? Let the pictures speak for themselves. FYI, I used the freeze spray method to remove this piece, for glue clean up I used Goo Gone spray gel and the flour method. 

I am very happy with the results, the only paint loss is a tiny bit on the purple balloon. and it cleaned up so nicely!

You can really see the difference in this pic where the mylar was and was not. People knock mylar but if none of the machines ever had it you would all own bare wood pinball machines at this point. 

Look how dirty that is. 

I hope that the main playfield mylar removal goes as smoothly. I know there is a chance we lose some ink on the inserts, but most of the inserts have the mylar bubbled over them already, so we may get lucky.