I havent seen one with mylar on it before other than little semi circle pieces that shipped with it if the user wanted to put them in front of the slings. I dont think a custom mylar playfield piece was available for that machine until many years after it was made and the cuts on that mylar doesnt look perfectly even--so it was probably custom made by the owner. So since it was probably put on over an already damaged playfield, the risk of pulling lots of paint is probably too great to justify.

So if it were mine, I would clean it up the best I could, polish the mylar as best you can, re-paint where the mylar was missing, and call it good. For me, it would either be that, or start over with the board and put a full overlay on it (which you can still see pop up for sale from time to time). Also CPR is collecting orders for a reproduction playfield--not sure how many more they have to have before they will build them but you might email them. Here is the page for the pre-order: http://www.classicplayfields.com/order.html

Good luck!

Fourbyracer

With so many of the SI playfields worn to wood, I figured there never was factory mylar installed. After you guys saying yours did have it, I stand corrected. I got the original owners pack with my SI (that I bought used), and all it had was 1/2 circle sling mylar that came with it. Anybody know what the percentage was Mylar SI's to no Mylar SI's? Might be a good thing to have on IPMD since it doesnt say anything about it either way.

I have an SI converted to just regular "retro look" LED's. The old 44 bulbs burned up the plastics and the LED's wont do that in my experience. Also worth it for less power draw on the whole system as you stated. I think it came out great and I built it with what I would call "First Generation" LED's from about 5 years ago. What is available today is heads and tails better, and cheaper. My hands down favorite LED bulb store is Comet. Here are some "Retro" ones that bring you very close to the 44's in terms of light and color. http://www.cometpinball.com/product-p/1retroled.htm
I actually went with the 2 LED version of these to brighten things up. I put some colored ones behind the backglass, and check out the "Matrix" system on that sight. That whole system gives you tons of possibilities from GI to backbox lighting, to flashers, to playfield lighting from the drain hole area. Lots of ways to improve on the board without going overboard in my opinion. I love my 2LED clear retro bulbs for the infinity lighting in the backbox. Finally also check out the 2 SMD (surface mounted diode) bulbs with the fluted lenses. Can give a pretty cool starburst effect to plastics if you like that.

Marco has a repro of the Susan B. Anthony sticker you are missing on the coin door. http://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/BLYSTKS

For Pop Bumper caps, they are on Ebay for the custom ones I have pictured. They are not perfect usually as far as printing, but a huge improvement over burned up original ones. I also replaced the top passive bumper caps with blank ones and then had custom space invader characters made to fit them. I put bullseye stickers on the targets, and also have the custom space invader character drop targets. Finally I wired in 2 new light sockets for the red eyes in the backglass. Very easy to do without permanent modifications nowadays with that Comet Matrix system. Lots of ways to go with it and lots of little things you can do to make it your own. Bottom line, have fun modding and playing it! Good luck!

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I have the Alltek MPU in mine but all other boards are numbers matching original. Entire game is converted to LED and I have not seen any flicker whatsoever. I would suggest putting in the LED's first and then changing lamp driver boards only if needed. There are also LED's out there that are anti flickering and anti ghosting so that is also an option--again only if you are having issues.