okay, moving along on my 3rd magnet project for my TZ. Was on a great roll until I think I might have messed up. I installed the magnet. I drilled the opto holes in the stainless steel ball guides. Then I screw in the first opto using the screws that were provided in the Pinbits kit.

Looked good. Then I noticed the metal part of the pole from the magnet was pushed down about an 1/8th of an inch. Sure enough I drilled into the magnet and screwed into it as well. That is why it was pushed down. The screws clearly are long enough to go into the magnet.

See pix....

With all of this said, should I assume the magnet is trashed at this point? Can't really tell the damage. With that said though. Isn't a magnet just wound up copper? Is it possible it would still work?

Sigh...

In hindsight I would never have done this 3rd magnet project on TZ. Simply isn't worth it (IMHO).

Dave

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Do you know how to contact them? Their website is down atm.

Here are pix of the tolerance I am working with. The playfield is about 1/4" where the magnet is below the optos. Not even sure with only 1/4" how much the optos would stay in there? Although, the pix for the pinbit kit seem to put the optos right over the magnet.

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My worry is the amount of board that is left. Wondering if different remakes of the playfield had different amount of wood taken out. I am guessing there is only 3/16" of an inch at best left of the board from where they bored it out for the magnet. My former playfield has at least 1/4", so it is very different in that respect.

See this pic so you see what little board is left...
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I took your advice and just dremeled off the ends of the screws I had used exactly to the width of the board. It worked fine. Thanks for the feedback/idea.

This has been a journey for sure.