Stopping point for the night as I'm missing some screws I need to secure the ramps. Guess I polished them and put them in my trash pile as they are MIA. I did get all the harnesses install on the PF. Just need to get the ramps and helmet on so I can attach those harness then clean things up. Getting close.

***fitment issue - This may or may not be the PF. On my heartbeat ramp one of the screws that secures the ramp front to the PF doesn't line up. It's off by a couple of MM's. I'll just line things up the best I can and make a new hole if necessary. It wont be seen anyway. I do have aftermarket ramps so it could be them that are off as well but something you'll want to check out.

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I'm planning on putting one back by the scope and had thought about putting a strip in the back above the head. Not sure about that one just yet though.

PF and cab have once again been married together. I still have a lot of detail work to wrap up but I'm almost there. Nerves are already starting with the first start up lingering. Everything fits like a glove. No FH PF issues (being to long). Got a good amount of clearance on the sides of the PF between it and the cab too.

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FINISHED! I'm to chicken &^%$ to fire her up tonight but I've got everything finished now. Just need to fire her up and make sure everything is right. Figured fresh eyes tomorrow for my go through check would be better than rushed tired eyes.

Yes, I know, I went overboard with zip ties. I am OCD with clutter so I've spent WAY to much time rewiring things to try and make it look as clean as possible. Was a major pain and I'm still not 100% happy with it but I think it's the best my skills will allow. Every nut and bolt was clean and tumbled to a polish. I hand polished all the ball guides and brackets. Every switch was cleaned and polished. All coils were cleaned and rewrapped. You get the idea.... Nothing was left untouched in this game. Started life as a well used bar Bride so it's come a LONG way.

I got all my remade warning sticker and warranty stickers added today as well. I used HEP's photo gallery to get them in the right spot. Hopefully I accomplished this. I was short two rubbers in the upper PF so until my pinball Life order comes in I wont be able to play her but I can hopefully now just stare and enjoy for a bit.

I'll post picks with it on soon. My wife wants me to install mirror blades so I'll probably do that (have an extra set at the house) so will have pics of that as well. My goal was to try and to build the nicest BOP in the country that was not professionally restored. Not sure if I accomplished this but I'm pretty happy with the final product.

Loads of pics now:

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LOL. His work is amazing so for anyone to even say it comes close is a huge compliment. I'm sure there are a lot of things he does better. If it ever goes up for sale I'll call it a MEP to be safe (Medium End Pin restoration ) My wife says I am not allowed to sale it unless someone offers me stupid money for it so it sounds like it will be in our house for a while.

Thanks for the compliments everyone. I'll get her fired up today and will get some pics with all the lights on (hopefully). Looks like my replacement rubbers wont make it here till Friday so I wont be able to play till then. That's going to be a tough wait but it's punishment for me leaving them off my last order.

I have found it a bit funny that one of the pics was flagged as unsafe for work. It's only a pic of the boards. Gave me a chuckle though.

Forgot, my friends will make fun of me for sure on this but my OCD took over and I went as far as making sure all the nuts on the bolts all face the same direction as well as the slots in the screws. Yes, I know, I'm sick.... Which is also probably why I've got about 800 hours in this from start to finish.

My wife wants me to do a Fun House next

I'll make one once I get my missing rubbers and all the bugs are worked out. I'll leave the glass on but will borrow the invisiglass that is on one of the other games in my house so it wont glare for the camera.

Powered her on. 2 major issues and one minor issue that I have to try and figure out.

- The head. It spun one spot just fine and then got stuck half way through it's movement to it's second face. Something must be binding somewhere.

- Coils - All coils from 9-14 do not work. All other coils work just fine. No clue on this one right now.

- (minor issue) Head chase lights - They are cycling SUPER fast. I'm on original code so I think that was addressed in one of the patches. Once I get the other things figured out I'll try to update the code to see if that fixes this.

Yes, I did.

Fixed the head. It was hanging on a bracket for the mini-PF. Added a longer spacer for that black bracket and it no longer stops the movement.

As for the coils - Here is the odd thing. They do not fire while in coil test in the test menu but if I press the switch each item will fire. For instance. If I make contact for the slingshot switch it will fire the coil for the switch. I thought I may have got the switch and coil harness backwards for those two items but I've quadruple checked and they are correct and in the right locations. Is this normal behavior for a BOP?

Is this correct?

I saw on DP's install guide it should go like this but I saw in a write up that the green harness actually was going to a different location (below where it is in the pic).

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Can someone test this out in 2.0? I'll also post in a 2.0 help thread.

Reason I ask is I just updated my game version and went into test mode in 2.0 and everything works as designed. I wonder if it's a pinmame issue now causing the problem.

Ah man.... So, my wife said I should reply to this with this so that I don't look like a dumb ass, " Nope, I wanted to leave them on there as it matches the blue in the game."

Truth be told I didn't even realize they had covers on them. I thought it was just the material they used of which I was a bit disappointed in. I removed one already and it looks much better.

As for the stickers. I got them from Inkochnito and had them printed by my printer. Just e-mail him and he can make you some up. Here are the brides for anyone that needs them. You can get all the standard ones here - http://www.pinballrebel.com/pinball/cards/ just need to get them printed.

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I took a pic with the lights on. I'll have to figure out how to get better pics as these make it look pretty bad. You can at least see how the extra GI light in the back left helps brighten things up a bit. Tried to play a game (adding some black rubbers for the missing ones for now) and realized that the rechrome on my skill shot ramp made the opening to small. It catches the ball now and holds it. Going to have to remove it and spread the guides apart a bit. I'd do it on the game but I don't want to break or scratch something.

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Here is why I did the decals and legs the way I did -

- I put black on as I hated the purple. I think the purple cabs look stupid and I never understood why they would do this. It's supposed to be a space theme and last I checked space was dark.
- I wanted something different. Life is pretty boring without variety. Why do a lot of the TWD LE owners want to replace their rusty look hardware with the Blood spattered hardware? It's because people think it looks better and fits the theme better.
- I went with the purple hardware over Black or chrome as I wanted to tie in the backglass and DMD panel with the game plus keep some homage to the purple. Plus I thought Black rails would be too black and I'm not a fan of chrome rails.

At the end of the day I'm happy with it. I can also respect that you like the purple better and I wont dog that but I would hope you could respect the fact that I like the black better. I think that is all BTW was getting at as well.

I'll check my chart and share with everyone. Yes, I'm planning on putting a light under the apron. Right now I'm waiting to do additional mods until I get a chance to confirm all is good with the game. I also want to put in some lights behind my clear flipper buttons (replaced the purple ones) and I also want to put a red LED strip at the top of the game that ties into the light that lets you know when the pinbot PF is open. That small light where it's at is hard to tell when it's on or not.

I'm also thinking of doing the LED OCD on it. Has anyone done this on 2.0? I'm seeing some minor ghosting in a couple of inserts plus I'd like to get that smooth movement back.

Here is what I got. I'm hoping I didn't miss something. I always buy extra so my receipt wasn't much help so I tried to pair things up with the parts on the game.

Mini Playfield - I didn't use the stock arrangement in the top right. I went with 7/16 on all the post vs using a couple of larger rings spanning multiple post.
16 - 7/16" - http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=3174
3 - 1 1/4" - http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=3180
2 - 1 1/2" - http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=3181

Main Playfield -
3 - 2 1/2" (slings) - http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=3184
14 - 5/16" (star post, remember I used the double rubber post under the mini playfield) - http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=3176
1- 1 1/2" (right lane guide under mini playfield) - http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=3181
2 - 2" (left lane guide under mini playfield, recall I used the double rubber post there too) - http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=3183
5 - post sleeves - http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=3304
1 - 7/16" (this is the post by the lower right 5k target. Check to see if you have a star post, reg post or mini post there)- http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=3174
2 - flipper rubbers

Depending on how tight you want your inlanes, either:
2 - 3/8" - http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=3173
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2 - 7/16" - http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=3174

Those are Ice Blue from Comet. - http://www.cometpinball.com/product-p/1smd5050.htm

Pretty sure I got all the bugs worked out now. All switches are adjusted to a sensitivity that I like, the head is no longer sticking and calibrates correctly, coils all fire and (with the update) my lights look much better. I got my pinball life order in today so I was able to add the missing 2 rubbers as well. Going to let my wife play the first game when she gets home. Will try and get some video either tonight or tom.

Looks like I just messed something up trying to adjust the switches... Desperate for help on this one.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/switch-tech-help-please-what-did-i-just-f-up#post-2372422