Hello fellow Medusa owners, I recently acquired a Medusa and launched straight into restoring it. Meaning I immediately started to dismantle it for this purpose.

One of the things I discovered is when I removed the light bar (the light panel at the very top of the playfield), it seems to be missing some of the lights. Can anyone confirm if my suspicion is correct, see the image, there are 4 lights that appear to be missing (2 each on the very ends of the array).

Also, is the light removable from its base? I know you can twist the light out of the main panel, but is the light itself removable from its base (by base, I mean the black piece that you actually twist to get the light out from the panel)? I suspect this is a 555 wedge light, but did not want to pull on it just in case they are not removable. Thanks.

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Hi, thanks for your response. From your post, it seems then that the lamp is removable from the black twist socket - please confirm. Lastly, as I am missing these, is there anywhere that sells the black twist socket? If I can't find any, then I suppose I would need to mock up something for these missing 4 lamps. Thanks.

Excellent, thank you meSz for the references, much appreciated!

Hi, looking for a decent, original set of Medusa playfield plastics. Please PM me.

A question about the 3 translucent standup targets that sit behind the top drop targets. I have recently acquired a Medusa, and these 3 targets were not the translucent ones, but your usual run of the mill standup targets. Here is a close up image of the middle target of the 3 targets.

I have purchased the translucent standup targets from Bob Langelius (as referenced in this thread), and am now trying to work out how to adapt the current setup with the correct setup. Browsing through this thread it would seem that it has been setup with what I will call the metal backstop strip (as per the arrow in the image, and as per the image in post #388), and setup without this strip (as per the images in posts #26, #66, #263, and #431). I would think that setting it up without the strip would allow more light to pass through from behind. But also, without the strip, there may be more risk of breaking the target if it is hit hard? How was this originally setup, with or without this strip?

From the first image in posts #61, it would seem that the original from Bally did not have this strip. Any comments/guidance much appreciated, thanks.

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