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Earthshaker Restoration

By rmillman

9 years ago


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#2 9 years ago
Quoted from rmillman:

Under the Mylar was Mylar. Two pieces by the bumpers by the flippers (kickers?).

I wonder if this is typical of Earthshakers with full playfield mylar, mine also has the two smaller slingshot pieces and then the full playfield piece applied right over them.

Good luck with your resto. If you need any photos or help identifying parts, PM me. I have scores of pix of my playfield teardown and took copious notes.

3 years later
#26 5 years ago
Quoted from rmillman:

It looks like the plastic post sleeves (first image) are no longer available, looks like there is a move to the rubber ones instead. Most of mine have some form of melting.

Those aren't melted, they're crushed down from over-tightening at the factory. My (and likely every) Earthshaker had the same issue, you can see the hexagonal impression that the metal post leaves on every one. The hole for the post was too wide, giving the sleeve pretty poor structural integrity.

Original aren't available, but what I did was order a bunch of these spacers from Marco. The hole is a little smaller but still enough to accommodate a #6 post, and the thicker plastic is harder to deform when tightened. They're 2 7/16" long, so each one will yield 2 sleeves when cut in half.

https://www.marcospecialties.com/control/keywordsearch?SEARCH_STRING=254-5035-00

And yeah, just give the light boards a good wipe-down with iso alcohol, that will remove all the dirt and coil dust.

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#64 4 years ago

Here are the few I have of that area from my teardown.

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#77 4 years ago

There should absolutely be springs on both assemblies, very strange that they're not shown in the manual or in the Williams parts catalog. I would guess that they use the 10-128 spring, which is the same one used in the slingshot assembly.

2 years later
#89 2 years ago

I notice you're using those pop bumper bodies that are 1/8" or so taller that the original Williams pop bumper bodies. The leftmost one (the one that gets the blue cap) may give you issues as the long ramp pretty much sits right on top of it, and this might be a problem when you try to screw down its terminus over the left inlane.

#92 2 years ago
Quoted from rmillman:

Thanks for pointing that out, I would never have thought about it and it would have driven me nuts. Not sure if there is another one available to match. I'll have to look into options.

Here's the correct white one at Marco. They also have correctly sized ones at PBL but only available in various transparent colors. Worst comes to worst, you could always take out the one you have, remove the top 1/8" with a dremel and/or sandpaper, and reinstall.

https://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/03-7443-5

Here's the same part at Planetary Pinball. IIRC I had ordered both Marco and PP's a few years ago, and I preferred the more opaque look of the PP bodies to Marco's milky white.

http://www.planetarypinball.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=PPS-03-7443-5

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