Documenting a top side tear down to wood of mbaumle Earthshaker It is a decent factory Mylar example that will get new ramps, plastics, targets, Cliffy’s etc. I’ll polish the Mylar up to bring back the shine. The bottom side will get all the mechs taken apart for cleaning with new sleeves with pop bumpers rebuilt completely with new plastics and wear parts.

If anyone has a lead on a new CPR playfield, please reach out to him.

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Here’s as is part 1.

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As is part 2.

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Part 3 of as is.

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Pictures of the posts.

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The bottom side saw a lot removed. All the switches, targets, etc. everything so I can polish up the Mylar without any danger.

Few random pics of the underside.

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Couple of things that will get fixed or replaced.

The drop bracket will get bent back to shape.

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The playfield bare ready for some polishing.

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After polishing:

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And waxed:

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Sidenote we took our maple down. Crazy how fast they can do it.

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While the mechanical cleaning is going on, I’m doing hand jobs. Err cleaning.

The sling and pop spoon switches were pretty filthy.

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I don’t think so but I guess he’ll chime in if so.

More cleaning…

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Drop target bank being disassembled. It is getting new drop targets. One is broken. The frame looks like it took a fall at some point. I got it fairly straight.

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One of the sling switches is wrong. Looks like something from a leaf blade arcade button. So I had a spare new one to replace it.

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We aren’t doing new labels or pulling the harness for cleaning but I couldn’t let the the ripped wrapper stay. So I had a AL-23-800 instead of the correct AE-23-800 on hand to at least make it look nicer.

Cliffy’s are installed. He has the one for the ramps which will go in when we get there.

Also, we are not using the ball eject Cliffy. Who has an Earthshaker thats needs one? Be the first to post a comment here with a picture of your dirty messed up hole and I’ll ship it to you. Thanks to mbaumle for doing this. Don’t forget to like, share and subscribe. Lol!

EDIT: Cliffy has been claimed!
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Wow, today is my 10 year anniversary on here!

Only a little progress today. The neighbor, her sister, and their parents went to another salt room today. If you’ve never been to one there’s a bunch of great health benefits. We’ve gone several times but has been a few months.

The posts are all installed as well as most of the rubber rings. Sling switches are adjusted and plastics installed there.

Pop bumpers are assembled on the top side.

Slowly making progress. Have a lot of metal regraining to go. May be light tomorrow with Mother’s Day.

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All the ball guides are regrained and installed. The supervisor checks they meet quality control. She still likes being on top of this barrel. I tried to get her to pick walnut shells with her claws but she wouldn’t have it.

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The flipper assemblies are rebuilt with new bushings. A screw was broken and one nut was missing. Replaced them along with some stripped screws. mbaumle already converted the lower flippers to WPC style so I only had to drill the upper. It also had some weird screws holding the stop in but the threads were fine. Rebuild comes with new hardware.

The new plastics are going on. I really like this set. There’s doubles and some triples!

The spinner was cleaned and a new decal installed. Adjusted it and added a touch of Superlube so it spins for days.

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Playfield plastics that need riveting are done. There are some ramp plastics still to go…

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The front playfield hangers came out much better. I usually tumble for 2 days and get great results or if not they never get better. I ran them another 2 days and they came out great.

The installed plastics. It’s crazy how many plastics are in this title. I wonder what game has the most plastics?

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The coils are mostly rebuilt and assembled. The drop target and rear up shooter are what’s left to go.

The Earthshaker Institute is installed with new plastics and cleaned.

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That’s what this is all about. Helping and motivating!

We went with the red saucer.

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The underside is finished. New targets, rear up shooter, drop target bank, pop lamps, and flipper rebuild completed.

We are waiting for the right ramp to show up. There was a mixup where they sent the subway instead.

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Some top side views less ramps/wireforms.

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No, I would just make some if you can't find them.

Send me your address in PM and I’ll send the Cliffy out to you.

Here’s the post location and heights.

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That’s interesting for sure and why I saw some in the club using a rubber ring coming across there.

I’ll check when it’s off the rotisserie as the edges are blocked right now. I thought I saw March too but will post it up when I can. Should be soon. We’re just waiting on the correct ramp to show up.

I stand corrected. Well, partially. It has March from ESC but guessing the other dates are correct and later run of April or December.

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The supervisor found one issue. It’s missing a ramp. Lol. Good news that the ramp came so we just need to get together to assemble the new ramp and put it on.

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This looks like a wrap. mbaumle brought the missing ramp so we installed it and tweaked some switches.

Looking forward to a follow up when he gets some times to stab it in and play!

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Thank you for trusting me with it and enjoyed doing it! It looks great in there. ES is an underrated game IMHO.