Gottlieb Raised Coin Door Logos

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Why haven't these been reproed yet? Are they die-cast metal? Could they be made from injection molded plastic? I assume they are black with brushed silver for the logo?

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If you are talking about "just the raised" logo insert then I'm sure you could inject them. I'm pretty sure they are cast aluminum. I guess the only problem is finding a donor door seeing it insets into the coin door.

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If you are talking about "just the raised" logo insert then I'm sure you could inject them. I'm pretty sure they are cast aluminum. I guess the only problem is finding a donor door seeing it insets into the coin door.

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These were originally Wico doors, right? Wonder why you couldn't modify the design slightly to fit the over/under door taht sports the raised horizontal lines?
 
These were originally Wico doors, right? Wonder why you couldn't modify the design slightly to fit the over/under door taht sports the raised horizontal lines?

Gottlieb used them on Q*bert and I think some of the Mad Planets had them as well. Pengo also used them with a black name plate. I guess you could create the logo plate with an extra lip so it looked as if it was inset just screwing it in a standard over/under door. The door does look slightly different but not that different.
 
If there was enough interest, maybe someone could get Steve @ Pinball Resource to make and sell them. He may even have the tooling, as he has a lot of old Gottlieb stuff.
 
Anyone should be able to cast this themselves out of pewter, tin or any low melt point metal. When I was a kid I used to cast custom bodies for matchbox cars.

If you wanted to go all out and use aluminum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsmR_uuM55s

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You could even cold cast it using aluminum powder mixed with resin
 
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I seriously looked at this and the centuri doors, but I think both would be cost prohibitive without the original tooling. Problem is that you are looking at two pieces of tooling at least, one from Wico and the other from Gottlieb and/or Centuri. No idea if Wico had the tooling and just made these custom to order, or if the mfg installed these plates on the line.

To avoid the use of the original tooling, a pattern for sand casting could be made but then you're looking at a couple hundred bucks per pattern. Frame, doors, logo insert, etc and what is the real demand for these? They do show up once in awhile for a lot less than it would likely cost to make repros. Of course, a pre-order of 50 or so might make it worthwhile. Eh.
 
I seriously looked at this and the centuri doors, but I think both would be cost prohibitive without the original tooling. Problem is that you are looking at two pieces of tooling at least, one from Wico and the other from Gottlieb and/or Centuri. No idea if Wico had the tooling and just made these custom to order, or if the mfg installed these plates on the line.

To avoid the use of the original tooling, a pattern for sand casting could be made but then you're looking at a couple hundred bucks per pattern. Frame, doors, logo insert, etc and what is the real demand for these? They do show up once in awhile for a lot less than it would likely cost to make repros. Of course, a pre-order of 50 or so might make it worthwhile. Eh.

Foam casting is much easier and cheaper.

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It could be as simple as a pot of sand:

 
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