So my wife's favorite game is TOM so I picked on up about a year ago and put it in the line for restoration so this is her first restoration so she knows why I am down in the workshop for so long when doing these games. It will be getting a restored playfield, new cabinet loads of brass from chesnut, a few mods, and pretty much everything else replaced. A few pictures of the game prior to starting.

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and some more teardown pictures sorry not a lot of documentation but take some photos and tear it apart

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New restored playfield from HSA photos some comparison photos

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Not a lot of step by step instructions on this but rebuilding mechs take apart, tumbler clean coils with ultrasonic, then new sleeves, wrappers, kickers arms, springs and put back together. Also I tumble the wire looms and replace the plastic looms so they are white because they will be yellow and for the money it makes sense. All of the light boards are cleaned with scrubbing bubbles then compressed air to clean.

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Next up pop bumpers tear apart clean, and start populating the playfield. I got 2 new flipper mechs from pinballlife and installed new wrappers as the old flippers had the wrong coils so its about the same money. I had to get a shot of my wife cleaning everything makes these much easier I hate cleaning.

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Ball guides regrained all posts and hardware tumbled, she decided to go with all red as opposed to orange and amber for posts, pops, ect. Also new plastics, and ramps

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backboard refinished, new decal, wires cleaned, also trunk cage tumbled and ready to go back in.

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Sorry for the not much how to but I will slow it down as the rest of the parts arrive this week. She will be going with PBpro high energy, gold tiger saw, trunk chains, pinballbulbs led kit, wireforms and entrance brass, along with all brass including coin door for the new cabinet that will be coming. We started on this game about 8 days ago so this one should be done in around 3 weeks total

That is the worst spot on the original playfield but I like to have one already done and cured so it makes the restoration go quicker without waiting, then sell the old one