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Cleaning Playfield Harnesses - Vid's Guide

By vid1900

7 years ago


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    Post #5 What can vs. what should not go into the wash. Posted by vid1900 (7 years ago)

    Post #8 How to Operate the Wash Unit. Posted by vid1900 (7 years ago)


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    #88 5 years ago
    Quoted from sethbenjamin:

    I'm looking down the barrel of a positively FILTHY Addams Family pin. Like, I am certain nobody has ever cleaned it, ever. Going full on playfield swap, CPR gold playfield, so obviously everything needs to be super clean.
    The previous game I tossed in the dishwasher was Black Knight, so it only had leaf switches. I'm gathering from what you're saying here that I should leave the switch matrix wiring out of the dishwasher, as it can mess up the microswitches?

    same here need to clean a very dirty earthshaker harness but not sure about the switch loom, don't really want to de-solder every microswitch.

    4 weeks later
    #90 4 years ago

    coils are fine they are just insulated windings on a bit of plastic with a wrapper. I left the coils on the loom and they came out great molex connectors are also fine and nothing happened to the leaf switches (just zip tie the stack like vid says so they dont seperate)

    I'm still on the fence with the micro switches though. But will probably just de solder them to be on safe side

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    #94 4 years ago
    Quoted from Bryan_Kelly:

    I leave them on then replace them with new ones when I'm done. They will fill with water that you can't get out. Once the game is done, you may not have issues. Give it a few months and you might notice you have to hit a switch a couple of times before it activates. That's the corrosion starting to take effect.
    Micro switches are so important to the game I like to start out fresh with new ones.
    I sell them here, if anyone is interested.
    https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/cherry-micro-switch-with-diode-installed

    Ah very good, i decided to remove them and hand clean in the end. What's your shipping to the uk like?

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