Hey guys I wanted to document my playfield restoration progress on my F14 tomcat. I picked up this machine a couple months ago from a older gentleman and that had this machine in his basement for 15 years. This machine was not taken care of well. I picked it up and it was super dirty and the playfield needed an extensive cleaning. But the machine worked and played so that was a plus. Unfortunately I didn't take too many before pictures because right when I got it I went to town on cleaning up the mess because well I didn't want to wait any longer. I had a huge problem going into this machine. The mylar was peeling up in multiple places most likely from the lights underneath the field heating up the adhesive. This cause a lot of dirt and crap to get under the mylar which made the machine look awful and also the ball was effected in gameplay any time it hit the peeled up parts. I had never removed mylar ever and I read throughly on how to do it but I could not save some of the paint.
1st Pic here you can see if you zoom in a cloud of dust and dirt under the mylar. Its tough to see and I apologize for the picture. This was after my LED swap.