Just wanted to share some pics of the restore job of this Twilight Zone. A lot of work went into this project and I'm pretty proud of how it turned out.

Complete playfield dissasembley... cleaned, buffed and waxed x3
Removed and cleaned all under the playfield ball passages
Cleaned wiring harness
Cleaned cabinet inside and out. Touched up as nessasary.
Cointaker LED's all around (with the exception of the flashers, i prefer incadesent)
Installed pintbits complete gumball LED and door flasher kit
Completley rebuilt the clock and replaced with LED's. Switched to color clock face decal.
Rebuilt all flippers and popbumpers including coils (actually replaced all coils and rebuilt assemblies)
Installed reinforced targets for slot and clock
Removed all stainless... removed habbit trails and regrained
Repaired slot machine weldment (TIG)
Playfield had no wear but installed a complete set of cliffy protectors
Replaced mini playfield, installed GLM switch kit, magna flip protector and fabbed lexan wire guard
Replaced GI connectors and pins on driver board

and a whole lot more that i cant think of right now. ill add later as I remember

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Thanks, GoBlue. Not planing on selling this any time soon, going to enjoy it for a while. I'm sure one day though.

Thanks for all the Kind words guys... it's not enough to hear it from family. hearing it from fellow pin heads means the world to me!

regaining is the sanding of the stainless to bring back the factory satin finish. it remove the habit trails and scratches.

yes, it's a whole different pin now. it was quite dirty before and all the coils were weak. now with the rebuilt flippers and coils it's, well... down right mean! (and I like it!)

Thanks! that was something that I whipped up at work when I was bored. I wanted something original and thought that keeping it black and white was keeping it true to the original tv series. I'll be happy to share with anyone who wants a copy.

Thanks, Cliffy. That really means a lot!

BTW, I'm a real fan of your protectors. I have them installed on my whirlwind, LAH and now TZ.

Thanks, kmoore! I tried three different brands/types of LEDs on this to get the look I was after. I have to say that the LED guide here on pinside and looking at other TZ owners pins (Black_Rose, Shanetastic, to name a few) gave me a lot of ideas. I still don't care for LED flashers, (the brand that I put in my LAH gives me a migraine, seriously) so im using regular flasher bulbs (some colored). I absolutely love the WW retro bulbs from coin taker! it's truly the best of both worlds, IMHO.

I Agree, it looks so much nicer than stock. The previous mini playfield had taken a major beating and the wires were mangled and shorting out. I wasn't going to have that happen to the new mini PF and your protector was a no brainer!

Thanks for the link, I'm sure that it will come in handy! I have been planning on a few mods of my own... but nothing too serious at the moment. just lots of ideas and parts laying around. Once winter sets in, and my shop is finished I will probably get motivated enough to actually start working on them.

here is the pricing card I made. Ive had a few inquires so I thought I would post it here.

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I actually had all the stainless buffed to mirror at first... started to put it all back on and decided it was too much for my liking. another deciding point was the GLM switch kit I didn't want to remove the mounted switches to put them on the buffing wheel and without doing that, the mis match would have drove me NUTZ! At any rate I Took them all back to the bench and put the grain back... I think the Ol lady was contemplating having me committed after all the work put into polishing all that steel.

oh, and you sir... have one hell-of-a collection!

Picked this one up from Al at the pinball warehouse in Minnesota. it was actually in really good condition by most peoples standards. the only playfield wear was were the ball drops on the switch from the wire form ramp, and even then it wasn't bad. The previous owner had done some pretty whacky (I.e. STUPID) modifications that needed to be removed and that required a major disassembly. I have a little OCD when it comes to these things so of course I went crazy.

I have been looking at yours for the last month or so. I would really like to do this and have been meaning to pick your brain regarding this. Does your mirror extend all the way down to the playfield surface?

Thanks, Rascal. Ill have to take some shots of LAH as well, got done with that one and started right in on TZ. however I'm not happy with the LED's I used in that as they have major ghosting issues. also the GI in the back box is horrible and put white focal spots all over the govenators ugly mug.

not from my experience. he does have a really nice selection though. I just couldn't find a TZ in our neck of the woods that wasn't hacked to pieces and still expecting to get top dollar.

Thanks, but I can't take credit for those. they were on the machine when I picked it up. they are pretty beat up from the playfield rubbing on them so I might replace them... or go crazy and put acrylic mirrors on the side and back. Black_Rose got my imagination running wild with his mirrored backboard!

Thank you, B_R!

did you ever think about giving the sides mirrors as well?

yes, I can see your point. It could be very distracting and I'm easily amused by flashing lights and colors as it is!

Thanks for the link, I ordered one up for twilight zone and I got another piece as well. Might try putting it in my F-14... just need to get the hole saw out, lol.

Thanks! You need to stop by and check it out if you're ever in the SUX neighborhood.