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How does one man raise/lower a Tron pro playfield?

By SBrothers

3 years ago



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    #1 3 years ago

    So I acquired a Tron Pro (on loan from a friend) and it’s the first pin I’ve had with the SUPERCHEAP prop legs on the playfield. I’m used to rails where you can rest the playfield in various positions AND one man slide it back into the game from the front.

    How on God’s Green Earth is one man expected to slide the playfield back into place on this game?

    Am I expected to hold the backboard with one hand and the apron with the other, like an eagle taking flight?

    I searched various phrases as I’m sure this has been covered before...came up empty handed.

    Any sage wisdom?

    #4 3 years ago
    Quoted from Tlamb:

    I don't recall it being much different other than only being able to rest it on those legs once pulled out. It still has slides and pivot pin at the rear of the playfield like many games of its era. You just do not have the brackets at the front that allowed it to be rested in multiple locations once slid out. It's been several years since I owned one but it was no different than any other title I had.

    Thanks for the quick reply...

    But how do you get the playfield pins that are resting on the cabinet rails to “hop” over the rail stop if you can’t pivot them up and over using the forward playfield rails that are normally there?

    I usually slide the playfield back into the cabinet until it hits the rail stop on the cabinet rails, then pull slightly down on the forward playfield rails (They pivot on the front edge rails of the cabinet) to slightly leverage the playfield pins over the rail stop so the playfield can be slid back into place.

    Not sure how to best navigate the cabinet rails stops.

    #5 3 years ago
    Quoted from Rum-Z:

    My Walking Dead has pegs like this. It's been a while since I had that playfield out and had to ram it back home, but the key operative word here is "ram". From what I recall, you grab the pegs and slide the playfield back into the cabinet, then all of a sudden, the playfield encounters resistance and stops before it gets all the way back, and you're like WTF? Well, the playfield has just encountered a small bump in the rail system, and you have to ram/shove it past that little bump. Yeah, it feels pretty violent, and not like something you really want to do, but I guess it was designed like this. I had a friend who had Stern games from this era on location, and I asked him about it and he was like "Yep, I just ram them back them back into position".

    So basically the “hit it with a hammer” approach!

    That is some “next level” engineering right there

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