I wanted to start a fresh new thread on this. A friend of mine purchased a beat down T2 at the Allentown show last May 2013. He was ridiculed online for spending his money on a machine in pour condition. I thought about it and wanted a big challenge. The playfield had wear at the lowest banana shaped insert. Some hole wear etc. Jim from Hamden created a thread about the restore of it. I will try and pull it all together here in the next day or so. It was missing a few parts here and there. The cabinet I stripped and gave away for free. I purchased a cabinet at the show. It was a No Fear cabinet faded but in great shape. I power sanded it down, filled and painted. Installed the T2 Chrome Edition decals.

All metal parts on the machine were pulled and I buffed and hand polished just about everything. Pop bumpers are all new except the coils the themselves.

Rebuilt canon motor assembly, and buffed. Moves easily now.
Here is a list of new parts

NOS Translight
Gun Handle Re-chromed
Chrome Lock-bar
Chrome Siderails
Legs and Feet
Jet bumper assembly
Complete Sling Assembly left and right
Pinball Fidelity Speaker kit. HOWEVER it will be running off a 150 watt car amplifier and a separate 12v power supply. Not sure if I will be able to pull it off, but the plan and parts are in place..
Light up speaker grills
Complete Chrome edition kit installed (see pinball dreams)
T2 Skull Eyes and painted teeth Mod
T-1000 unpainted mod
Pinbits light up hunter ship mod
Hunter Ship
All new Star Posts and Double Star Posts
Brushed Aluminum Flipper Bats
Fully rebuilt flippers
Superband flipper rubbers
Cliffy and Superband post protectors
Back Box ribbon cables
Rottendog Driverboard
Rottendog CPU
Rottendog Dot Matrix Controller
Rebuilt KSarcade SoundBoard
Swear Roms via John Wart
Under cabinet LED flasher kit
Target Decals
DMD
Red DMD Filter
Pivot Hinge Sliders: Allows the playfield to slide out as well as pivot
Under playfield slide out supports
Mix of LEDs from Comet Pinball, Pinballlife and Cointaker

Here is what it started out as. Someone posted online "I'd pay you 60.00 to piss on it.."
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Playfield stripped and ready for Jim's magic
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Playfield finished leveling inserts, holes repaired, and ready for clear coats
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Cabinet ready for playfield install
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Playfield about 75 percent wired up and tested.
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Still got a lot more to do.

Moderator can you move this out of MODS to All pinball or a more appropriate category?

More pictures tomorrow night.

I should have taken a picture of the wiring loom and boxes of parts after stripping the cabinet and playfield. It looked like a big ball of dirty christmas tree lights meshed with broken parts, coils and screws..

Exactly why I wanted to save it Shack. I also picked up the Circus Voltaire and fixed that one up nice. Now for me to rescue another one this year. I'm wondering what I will find..

Machine is almost done. I have the coindoor installed.
Stainless overlay installed over the coin door.
Installed El Paper behind the T2 on the coindoor.
Wired up the chrome apron
Installed the Flipper Fidelity Speaker system.
Installed LED speaker grills
Finished cleaning and installing the remaining plastics.

Still to do
Clean and install last wireform ramp
Rebuild left flipper, right is done I ran out of rebuild kits
Install undercabinet flasher kit
Install LEDs in inserts
Test, adjust, Test, and Adjust..

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I'm out of time. If I had more there would be a bunch more things I'd do to it. Think of this as a strong foundation. I will take more pictures and video of it later.

Mirror Blades are installed.
Under Cabinet lighting kit is almost done..

Those are a PITA to restore. All ground braid under the cabinet, repinning all the connectors. I'm finishing up repinning my xenon for the show and it takes a LONG time. I really like space invaders though.

I will try and post more pictures tonight. Been busy. I have 10 machines heading down to allentown. packing them up wed night. Lots to get done before then. 2 of the 10 are sold. 6 or 7 will be in freeplay. Terminator 2 will not be in free play but you can stop by and ask to play it. I'm going to try and keep it clean and nice. It will be fore sale down there. I'm also open to trades.

I'm thinking about doing a silent auction on it. I've never done one of those. Any thoughts? Is doing that bad form? I'm into it really deep financially, and looking to recoup my investment and pass along a nice machine to someone else.

Thanks yes it all came from pinball-dreams. You can get it separately from pinball decals
http://pinballdecals.com/PartsByGamePages/T2_Page.html

I'm toying with the idea of restoring another one to "Chrome Edition"..

Looks great miss it, one of my proudest restores

The playfield was a restore for sure. You're accurate on all the rest.