Really cool!

Excellent. I thought about doing that a time or two on TAF and never could get it past the thought process.
Never even considered the Stern parts.
Is that a WPC95 cabinet it is resting in?

Very nice work!

Could you share your measurements for the mounting holes? I have a WPC cab I need to convert to Stern rails.

You're a MAD man, Wally!

I'm going to take for granted the playfield hanger hooks don't hit the cloud topper when it's in the upright position?

And the Stern part numbers are......?????

Im definitely doing this!

Don't forget the carriage bolts & nuts for the side brackets and you have to install t-nuts and 8-32 screws for the new pivot brackets that attach to the playfield.

(6) Stern # 231-5012-00 Carriage Bolts, 10-24 x 1-1/4" long

(6) Stern # 240-5207-00 Keps Nuts, 10-24

I would very much love to do this. Having recently worked on my TAF, I was cursing the fact that the playfield doesn’t slide out. Hmmm....

awesome work Wally

Thanks a lot for the detailed info!

Just finished my slide out conversion on my TAF project, learned a lot did some things different from Wally's documentation above. Did not have to do any cutting of the backboard or the plastics on mine to miss the side rails in full upright position due to some changes I made.

TAF_Slide_Pfinny (resized).jpg

So you have to document what you did... please? . I've been thinking about doing this and just wanna see someone do a conversion on an existing game cabinet.

I would love to do this on my resto coming up!

Please post what you did, and an idiots guide for how to do it!

Will post some more info soon, even with info that Wally provided still had to do some trial and error to get it to all work correctly. The biggest obstacle I encountered was getting the playfield raised up high enough with the new supports. The measurements from bottom of cabinet did not work for me. I also bypassed drilling new holes in the playfield for the new mounts and opted to use existing holes and custom mount I fabricated out of 3/16" steel which I will explain all later.

Here is Part 1 of my write up, will add more as time permits. I did what I did for the following reasons: 1.) Clearance over the Subway and Thing mounting tabs so bracket would sit flush 2.) No drilling our mounting of T-Nuts into the top side of the playfield 3.) No removal of side rails 4.) No removal of anything on the top side of the playfield 5.) Utilization of existing mounting holes and screws. I bought all the metal and other misc. off of McMaster-Carr web site.

Instructions_part1_f.pdf

Ok, I’m glad I came across this thread. My next restoration will be an TAF. This mod will definitely be done.

I will do the same, its awsome!

Here is Part 2, just goes into more detail on the remaining brackets that I made that get installed on the playfield.

Instructions_part2_f.pdf

Here is part 3 of my write up, pictures are pretty much self explanatory. There will be at least one more write up after this explaining what I did with the brackets inside the cabinet. Enjoy !

Instructions_part3_f.pdf

When you say backboard, what exactly do you mean? For some reason, I'm blanking.
I see that you shortened the edge side bracket. Don't understand what you mean about a taller backboard. Do you mean the light backboard?

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