Picked up a Nitro Ground Shaker in rough shape quite some time ago. I had one before that I regret selling, so I wanted to find another. The list of things to do is long, new playfield, backglass, plastics, repair, paint, stencil cabinet etc etc etc.

I've been making some progress on the playfield, cleaning, polishing, and rebuilding as I go. My goal is to have a machine that is as nice, or nicer than when it was new from Bally. Probably as close to the NIB experience I'll ever get.

The machine when I got it. Sweet flipper rubber. Stripping the playfield.

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Lots of cleaning, polishing and rebuilding mechs. Did this as I pulled them to make repopulating the new playfield easier.

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Homemade t-nut installer, t-nuts installed, lane guides polished and installed, repainte rails black and installed. Ball trough reinstalled as well as new parts on the shooter lane.

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All new lamp sockets installed with 470 ohm resistors on the controlled lamp sockets for LED's , wire laid and soldered in, pop bumper topside parts in, as well as other topside parts, wire harness moved and soldered in.

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Drop targets in, knockout hole mechs in, ball eject in, switches and more topside parts in.

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Flippers in, lane guides in, spinner rebuilt with new and old parts, bottomside pop bumper parts in.

This is where I'm at now. It's been slow going, just working on it when I have time.

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