Kik-Step Rehab

Back in August, Adam and I had found three old Kik-Steps at that sale with all of the Letterpress gear. These are pretty pricey brand new, so we were excited to buy each of them for between $6 and $8. They were in pretty grungy shape, but over Christmas break, Adam began fixing them up. He says that all he had to do was order $24 worth of supplies from The Library Store, and he was in business. Here’s one of the newly improved Kik-Steps in our kitchen (the red one in the background is one that he got for me a few years ago, new):

Adam spent countless hours sitting in front of the TV, cleaning these suckers and watching bad action movies or documentaries about pinball. I appreciate his hard work, but I will admit that I did make fun of him quite a bit during the process.

The coolest thing was that on two of them, he was able to salvage the old Kik-Step rubber logo on top, which is way cooler than the new one: