(Topic ID: 10516)

UPDATE: Video Added! Finally! AFM is all shopped out.

By TomGWI

12 years ago


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#1 12 years ago

Finally I am done shopping my AFM. Game had some issues. DMD had the continuous wave, some switches were out, pop bumpers weak and skirts chipped, dirty playfield, scoop and saucer hole wear, saucer LED out, bulbs out etc.

DMD turned out to be the caps on the AV Board - easy fix. Installed Anti-Glare film from Pinball Life.
Replaced some microswitches that were flaky.
Tore the whole playfield down and cleaned. Used polishing kit from Pinball Magic that worked amazing. Repaired the scopes with some wood epoxy and installed cliffy protectors
Cleaned ramps with Windex, Novus 2 & 1 and the wireforms with Nevr-Dull.
Installed new red star posts, white rubber, and red cliffy posts.
Cleaned out all the inserts under playfield with q-tips and novus 1.
Installed LEDs in the inserts and under the plastic ramps.
New mothership plastic and LED saucer board.
Installed Pinbits Plastic Protectors.
Rebuilt both flippers with kit from Pinball Life.
Installed AFM Backboard decal from Little Shop of Games.
Rebuilt the pop bumpers today with new bodies and skirts.
Had a broken post I had to replace on the left that holds the wireform.
New Lockdown Bar, Legs, Leg Levelers and Bolts.
Updated Roms from 1.0 to 1.13 bought from That Pinball Place (John Wart)
Man I'm tired. Well worth it though.

I'm going to upload some pics. Here are a ton on photobucket: http://s868.photobucket.com/albums/ab241/pinballwizard2009/Attack%20From%20Mars/

Video:

Start pics:

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#2 12 years ago

Looks sweet. I'd love to have one.

#3 12 years ago

Good job!Love Afm its a fun pin

#4 12 years ago

Nice job. She looks great!

#5 12 years ago

Nice work, cant wait to do mine

#6 12 years ago

Now do a video of it !!!

#7 12 years ago

Nice job!

#8 12 years ago
Quoted from BLACK_ROSE:

Now do a video of it !!!

I will just adding some pics first. Probably do a video tomorrow. I also have to do a TF 1.4 video.

#9 12 years ago

More pics:

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#10 12 years ago

More dirt:

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#11 12 years ago

Let's start cleaning:

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#12 12 years ago

Clean, clean, clean:

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#13 12 years ago

More cleaning:

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#14 12 years ago

Saucer scoop repair, leds under ramps & Cliffy's installed:

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#15 12 years ago

Old Bumper parts, New Bumpers, Backboard Decal & New Mothership Plastic:

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#16 12 years ago

Finished: Sorry got carried away with all the pics.

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#17 12 years ago

nice job TomGWI.how are you liking it so far?

#18 12 years ago

Looks nice....All that work & no Bill Ung's saucer kit???

#19 12 years ago

Your machine sure turned out nice,gotta love the AFM-great looking shop job-well done!!!

#20 12 years ago
Quoted from tatman9999:

nice job TomGWI.how are you liking it so far?

I'm liking it a lot. Haven't got to rule the universe yet but have been getting close.

Quoted from smassa:

Looks nice....All that work & no Bill Ung's saucer kit???

I ordered one in early January. Should be shipping this week

#21 12 years ago

Awesome job....will you shop mine out?

#22 12 years ago
Quoted from BillP:

Awesome job....will you shop mine out?

lol Only if you bring it to me.

#23 12 years ago

looks GREAT!

#24 12 years ago

That is truly awesome.

#25 12 years ago
Quoted from BLACK_ROSE:

Now do a video of it !!!

Been having trouble rotating this video for a while. I am going to try again and post another link

#26 12 years ago

Added corrected video in my first post enjoy.

#27 12 years ago

Great job. What did you use to clean the playfield?

#28 12 years ago
Quoted from RobT:

Great job. What did you use to clean the playfield?

Novus 2 and deluxe polishing kit from Pinball Magic and their 2" polishing kit in the pop bumper and inlane/outlane areas. I always use Novus 2 but this was the first time I used the polishing kit. I used Magic Eraser from MR Clean to get the ball swirls out in the loops.

http://pinballmagic.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=15&zenid=94e2bfc683cb1770f11d90f0ff12cd81

#29 12 years ago

Looks awesome!!! Nice job!!!

#30 12 years ago

#31 12 years ago

Thanks Everybody for the kind comments. I'll do another video when I install the mini saucer LED mod.

#32 12 years ago

Nice job, Tom! mine needs shopped badly.

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