Hey folks, I wasn't going to do this, but thought I'd document as best I can remember and just maybe i'll come across something you have not in your time.
I've been following Soulrider911 & cosmokramer with awe and close watching their skill level, time put in and commitment. So, i've been banging away at this for a over a month so far, here and there. Between a vacation, my two boys (aged 13,14) hockey games, practices, tournaments, playoffs, etc. I'm at the rink in some shape or form about 5 days a week. So the pinball refurb is "my" time, I love to get into the zone with my parts, cleaners, a beer, and just pick away. Here's some starting pics, mid-way pics of what I've done.

I'm not going to call this a restoration, as i'm not going as far as that. I am going to try to do this the best that I can with the parts, ability, I have. the difficulty to an extent is ordering parts, we get effed in that department quite bad, so making orders are tough. Here comes the trials and tribulations...............................

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I have already, stripped the PF, de-glued it, there wasn't any raised, lowered inserts amazingly enough. Applied decals, I am going to clear it later.

Also, there is NO missing parts, which is great, hearing of the horrors of missing a fishing rod plastic or a gun handle, topper, etc, sucks. So i'm ahead in that dept.

Already stripped and cleared the Boat playfield, BUT I need to sand down a bit and re-coat to get rid of a little bit of planking.

Have many new parts here and a couple in transit yet. New boat ramp, stainless cabinet rails, pop colors, trough light, new speakers, crossover, and volume adjustments, retro-refurb decals and others.

I have wet sanded and re-grained all my guides with 600, then Barkeepers friend polished them, they look great.

I have washed all boards with simple green, a tooth brush and hot water, they look brand new.

I have rebuilt, cleaned, re-sleeved... one by one, every assembly under PF and put back in.

I have read vid1900 's Playfield and Cabinet resto threads extensively. I will be using many ideas from both, that I know for a fact. The back bottom of my cabinet is ass, I will need to be using some fiberglass resin repairs to strengthen corners and fill in lockbar holes and other bangs, dents and otherwise awful caretaking of this pin before it came my way.

More cabinet sanding, I took a couple pics, I have been going with 80grit, slowly but surely taking the glue down, it almost just balls it up into tiny balls and I just keep sweeping it off the wood, I took the pic with the light angled so you can see what I took off and what’s still left

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Sanded for a while this evening. Glue gone, actually got to sawdust, wow. Cabinet is so rough, going to need lots of glue, big clamps, patience, better skillz

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Started stripping the paint and such off the back of the cab last night, couldn’t even sand it was so thick, two layers of furniture stripper and still didn’t get to the bottom of the paint, must have been a few rattle cans of black over the years. Time to sand....sand......

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Yeah, i'll pull them off, thx. Just tried the stripper quick to see, didn't have the right tools at my workplace shop I have it at.

Slowly but surely! Not doing any cabinet work until weather warms up, been the worst winter in Sask so far uggggh
Polished up all the wire forms this afternoon, Barkeepers friend and a microfibre cut small worked well! Going to put them away all clean awaiting the rest, next is a good plastic cleaning and polish. Simple green and some Novus1 to finish

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Outside!!! Awesome weather finally, got some considerable sanding time in this afternoon. I should be golfing but I got out Friday and Saturday already

I don’t quite know how far I really need to go sanding, do I go as far as having no black paint residue left at all? It’s smooth as balls,
I’m sure I can prime over that minimal black before repainting he black? Any thoughts?
Time to fill & repair and sand again!

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Well, I’m slower than molasses on a cold January morning but I’m picking away at the cab. Picked up some dowels today to plug the numerous holes from a lock bar and someone trying to firm it up with angle iron once. Doing some more ding filling with some ProBond Max, this stuff gets nice and hard.

The three monster holes on right side I think I’m going to fill in with the fibreglass resin kit I bought a while back

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Prepped the holes using vid1900 ‘s instructions from the cabinet repair tutorial. I used a burr bit on my “chinese dremel” and reamed the holes a bit and screwed in some #4 screws to give it “teeth” and something for the resin to adhere around.

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Little bit of front/back give and flex so I pull the wood away a hair, squeezed Elmer’s wood glue in and used these beauty clamps to tighten the unit up more

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Bit of a crack in the mdf where the screws went for the glass slidey thingy, used a pointy dremel end and reamed out the crack and re-glued and clamped it also. I’ll sand it down nice for primer later.

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This beautiful reel handle showed up last week also!!

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Pulled the head out today and got it sanded up, just relaxed and let the sander so the work. Some repairs to do with some filler. You’ll notice like I did as I did the back, the yellow caution paint started to appear, someone rattle canned most of the back and touched up the sides many moons before I owned it.

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Just a little work this evening after supper. Sanded a bit on the cab and touched a few more spots with the wood filler (I want it smooth!!). The bottom was sagged a bit, so I put a bead of glue under the cross arm and flipped it up and did one of the most Canadian things I probably could have, I couldn’t find anything heavy enough to press down, just happened to have a couple curling rocks hanging around, we’ll laying around.
Did some filler in the head, did some wood glue then mixed in some wood filler and put the squeezers on the two spots the head bangs on the cab rails, used some wax paper to keep the sticking away.

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Thx a lot. I'm so frickin' slow though!! Too much life involved between my pinball work. I'll get it done. Going to try to get to paint and such, then cab decals in the next short while. I have my new HVLP gun to try out soon, I have a spare portable air conditioner/de-humidifier a buddy is using, i'll get it back for a while and make my garage a better place for clearing the PF and painting the cab. Might be better for my weak assed quality control!

I have an 11 gallon compressor, should be fine if I take a breather every little while?

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I’m now considerable slower than “The slowest Globetrotter restore”. I’ve been a pinball piece of shit for the summer. Lake, golf, beer, kids sports, add everything up, haven’t touched thisnhing in two months. Uggggggggghhhh. On a really cool note for the kids sports thing, my youngest won Provincials in PeeWee AA hockey this season, and then went on to win Provincials in PeeWee AA Baseball also at the end of July, so super neat.

Pulled it out of shed, put it in garage. If I’m slow I’ll get in shit from the wife because she can’t park in garage. NEEDS to be done in next month, before it gets cold. Want all cabinet and playfield work done soon so I can put it back together inside during the close months. Need motivation!

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Well, doing a little bit of work for the PF today - sad, sad thread below

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/ft-playfield-im-a-dumbass

I have snapped pics, got dimensions, and have sent our print shop in town everything they need (hopefully) to create a very thin vinyl decal I can put in to cover my mess. I will be clearing it with SprayMax2k after to seal it in, maybe it'll go great for me for once.

Some corner repairs today. Bought and mixed up fibreglass resin for the first time ever today. I took a few tips from vid1900 and applied them.

Tried to just get the resin to be convex above the holes to minimize sanding after. Reamed the holes a bit, out in a couple small screws to hold everything.

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Well, gave it the ‘ok college try on the mess that is the back bottom of my cabinet. It was just shredded. I built a big dam behind it and filled it with fibreglass resin today. I got it very roughed up, put a couple small screws in the corners for the resin to grab and harden to. What a frickin’ mess I made, going to need some sanding and clean up. #disaster. Created more work for myself, but hope it holds strong!!

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SO I’M PRETTY ELATED!!
I cracked off my dam and have a big solid fibreglass square back now. Used my knife to cut a bit back while it’s not rock hard and easier on the sander later.

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Well, happy today again, did some sanding and corner shaping on with the hardened resin. Had a couple corners, one in backbox and one on bottom front corner of cab that got below surface level, so a scratched up all of the hardened surface on both and reamed in a couple spots for the resin to get deep and harden into to shore them up flush. Sanded the back bottom where it was a disaster, got it close to very nice.

Using this resin is as a easy to use and basically shitkicks the strength of wood filler IMO. Great use on corners.

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Shits starting to get real! Picked up a roll of medium poly roll to make my spray booth in the garage. I’ll tuck tape in a couple furnace filters for an entry and exit of air movement. Also grabbed some tack cloth for PF prepping

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Really ? 29C?

Thx man, walking through it is easier for me to follow along, I have always had trouble reading and following directions that are not linear, or put right on front of me. Makes me seem like a dumbass, but it must be how in wired. I'm a smart guy in an extremely technical job, but i seriously need to see it the first time layed out like a dummy right in front of me. thx!

Naphtha

Made my murder scene ‘er I mean my temp spray booth tonight!!!

Getting closer, nerves coming! But damn I want to get this complete soon. Once cleared and cab painted I can take all the time I want this fall/winter to put it back together

Have the intake and exhaust filters installed. Fan will blow out the window right there and create negative pressure flowing through hopefully!

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Well, went back into the murder tent this evening to do something I missed, glad I was perusing around the SprayMax or Vid's playfield resto thread. Sanded down the PF with 400 and got it all matte hazy lookin'

I wiped it many times with a naphtha cloth during and after. Did a full naphtha re-wipe after sanding complete and installed old bulbs into the sockets.

Going to leave it overnight to think about it before I finally spray the SprayMax2K tomorrow. Day off, so I will be able to get to the first coat at a reasonable time.

I'll be going tomorrow night to the rematch of the Nipawin Hawks and the Humboldt Broncos from last nights season opening game in Humboldt, wow, was that something if you caught it on tv.

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Gearing up, just did another one last naphtha wipe down of PF and boat PF, giving it a few mins to evaporate/dry before I suit up and giv’r shit here. I think I’d rather be in front of 1000 people doing a speech, LOL. Bought a better smaller box fan this am to put right flush with exhaust filter to keep the area vapour and dust free better.

I think I’ll video this and post it on the thread, see if the “pros” around here have any better suggestions for me between my next coats and sanding, etc.

Here is my first coat. Looks ok so far.

So, i put the video to 2x speed, but i'm an idiot as I did some commentary.

Waited 20 mins or so, finished the can, just started to spatter at the end, so I stopped, there was still a decent amount in can maybe as I could feel the weight. The boat PF is about a foot farther than the PF, I cleared it also. I looked through the plastic after and I could see 1 splatter dot on the boat that I will have to clean up. Maybe a baby bit of orange peel on the second coat. The first coat looked clean and shiny everywhere, took a good peek at it before I started the second layer.\

ALSO< WOW, is this shit potent, all previous info regarding that - vid1900 and others saying over and over to use PPE, -------- USE PPE, this is rank. Glad I built the murder tent.

Just popped into the scene. From early indications, it looks smooth and looks to have adhered to the PF very nicely. Very, very happy with that. I can see how the clear reacts to to higher/lower points of the PF as it goes with it. I took a couple pics, and you can see how the clear is quite higher where the new decals are. It doesn’t fill the PF smooth. These are the places I will have to level out with the sanding. Not a big deal, should be easy enough. I was mostly nervous about spots where the clear didn’t “take” on the surface after reading many horror stories.

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Sanded today, I think I’m going to have a bit of trouble getting it levelled fully here. The clear is rising up with the decals.

I sprayed can two just now, I did it in two spray sessions. I could tell I still had some left in can 1 and finished it off at the end of can 1, maybe it will be thick enough now that I can sand down above the decals and have it flush then. I don’t want to get low enough over the decals where it stays cutting into them.

That being said, it looks great! This clear is sweet stuff. I will also follow up again and say this stuff is rank. I could tell the vapours we’re getting into my mask. WHEW.

I just checked the PF. In a great turn of events, the clear leveled out nicely and better than I was anticipating. It filled up around all the decals nice and came up almost flush with them now. I'm super pumped. Block sand it on Mon eve or Tues eve and then give it a final can should do the trick i'm hoping!

Pics don’t do it justice.

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Sanded, wiped up and did the last spray hopefully! Fingers crossed.

Took a pic of the vapours lingering in the booth after. The fan will suck it all towards the the filter, I’ll toss the heater back in and give a good heat tonight to seal it up.

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Went ahead and sprayed a BeautyTone oil based primer/sealer this afternoon. Not overly pleased with results as it was my first attempt with HVLP gun, took a while to dial in the gun, thin the primer a bit to get it running through gun.

I was practicing in booth with a big piece of cardboard to get pattern dialed in. I had to refill the reservoir once with just a bit more primer, i accidentally put a bit more thinner than I was wanting in reservoir, then my primer was spraying out MUCH better. Something to remember for next coat. I will have o wait until very dry and give it a sanding

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I have been repopulating the bottom side of the PF for an evening. I also rebuilt the boat playfield fully. Looks nice

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Let the primer dry/cure overnight, gave it a hand block sand with some 240grit. Came out smoother than I was anticipating. It powdered up very nicely, which I was happy with. It’s fairly ok. I am going to put down another coat of primer later today or tomorrow after work. Then I can get it very smooth and ready for black paint.

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Second coat completed. Pissed at myself, I got a bit of run/sagging. I should have put more light on it so I could see where/what I was spraying better. I’ll just have to sand it smooth.

I got smarter today as I didn’t know where to ever set the gun and filling it was a hassle. So I made this quick before filling the gun up. I got smart before filling as unnoticed the hole in the 4x4 was too close to the wrong end.

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Well, wanted to get the cabinet paint done this weekend but taking the family up to my parent for the Thanksgiving Long (Canada) weekend. Nice to head up but shitty I can’t get this done. I want to get to rebuild and can decals soon!! Anxious

Well, amazingly enough. I’m starting the upper playfield build!!! The excitement in the house is electrifying. Well, maybe not, but the wifey is excited as fuck that I’m starting to get this crap out of her garage. Yes, her garage. I fill the entire basement with pins, she gets the value of a snow free vehicle in the winter. Justified!

Well, here she goes. Copied Soulrider911 a bit and changed up the pop colours with going to blue. Got the insert lights boards that have leds that aim up and down, should brighten up the upper PF a bit with the clear bodies.

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So yeah. Holy crap I’m the crappiest crappin solderer ever. There, had to get that off my chest

I’m so pumped. Looks so clean and sleek now. I’ve been staring at my pre-demolish pics for reference, the old pics are so filthy!!
Pics will probably be in backwards order as usual

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Super pissed at myself, moving my cab inside garage and dinged the corner, frig. I figure it would be covered by armour and lockbar, but I couldn’t live with meself if I didn’t fix this with all the work I’ve done so far. But, delayed the black paint job by a couple days. I’ll spray it
one evening this week now I suppose. Lost a full day yesterday, took my oldest to cross-country running provincials out of town for the day, -3 with a 50km/hr wind.... poor runners. And dad, I was cold as a MF.

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Yeah, it was minimum a silver medal in the four letter words Olympics

This arrived in the mail today back from Johns Jukes. couple minor repairs.

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Well, corner is good as new perfectly smooth. Tune up with a bit of primer.

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More added to playfield tonight. Mocking it up before I tighten them down

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Cabinet quickly after work!
Whew, strong, I’m kinda whacked out. Had a cartridge mark kn also.
If you wanted to know if my negative pressure tent is working, check out the filter I put in!

This paint is smooth, goes on with a fantastic mist.

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Well, it said fast drying, it is fast.
I went out and checked the cab, it looks like complete fucking garbage. Man I suck. I put it on very, very thin. It still ran a bit and where it didnt run, its too almost see through. I would like to find a happy medium in there. Well, I guess i'll have to grab some extremely fine sandpaper and take out the runs. I think I will have to only spray one side at a time and have them facing up, one by one. The only two places it looks very very nice is the top of the back of the cab and the top of the head. It'll be a bit more time consuming and tedious, but facing up looks to be my option. Taint guzzler! That's my new saying today to say

One coat, I kept it to a very light coat and was trying my hardest to keep it very light, I had the patience for it.

Playfield completed tonight. Only have to tighten the flippers and insert all the bulbs. I need to re-fasten the PF in the back to the rotisserie so I can flip the unit upside down. Holy, it’s heavy again being populated.

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Yeah, many of the places the run (very very thin run) will have decal on it, no it’s not the end of the world. I just wanted light paint over the primer to have the decal adhere better. I’ll make it right.

I used the rattle can instead of the hvlp gun because I am still a rookie with the gun and knew the can had a nice spray. Also, i was in lazy mode and didn’t want the clean up.

Thx, I had plans for 2-3 coats. The area where I kept it light like I wanted it’s pretty much see through. I just got barely a little heavy in a couple spots and it ran.

OK, sanded down my fuck-ups. Gave it two very light coats about 10 mins apart. I held a bright assed flood light in my left hand and sprayed with my right so I could see everything better, should have done this yesterday. Live and learn my friends! Thanks for the tips all.

I'll need this information saved up in the brain as I have a WhirlWind next in the queue. Mint CPR playfield, new BG, new plastics. The PF has already been swapped by the previous owner. I just have to restore the cabinet for this one and do a PF shop, cleaning. I have all new custom decals and side blades made and in hand awaiting.

Pulled the rig out of the garage and into the front porch to cure for the week. I can tell there is a bit of a “dusting” of paint on a few areas where the paint dust in the air settled. I will wait a couple days and wipe it down with a wrung out micro fibre cloth. I can finally take down my murder tent in garage, clean the damn place up and let wifey get the SUV back in there.

They look very good
Murphelman like the blankey?

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Really glad I put this together in the garage, took me quite a while, but I kept a lot of crap from getting into everything and I kept a lot of crap from getting onto my playfield for clear and my cab for primer paint.

Taking it all down right meow!!

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Ok, lined in my ground braid tonight. Also mounted the new speaker, more power! I installed the back cab leg brackets. Only had two . Have 6 more to be picked up next week.

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Strapped in the ground braid and hardware inside head today. It’s going.......baby steps. At least it’s not two steps back, ha.

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Chillin’ in the sweet sun in Arizona, I have all of this in hand now from my 6 orders from 6 different pinball vendors! Only one more to go-PBL should be here on the 31st!

Already have- Pinball Mods, Cliffy, Marco, Monster Fish mod, Amazon order. Saweeeeet

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Here’s the other present - palm trees, heat and sunshine in our backyard

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Home with my stash of parts!
Was able to get the ball plunger properly installed last night finally! It came to me with a knocker bracket turned plunger bracket. Amazingly enough it pretty much worked perfect for the last couple years for me. But got the new bracket in now and done right.
I can now continue with my cabinet as I now have my pile of inner can leg brackets to finish that off also.

Will post more as I go

Populating inner cab and installing the cheap sub kit upgrade and crossover and L pad to get some deeper sound out of ‘er.

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Populating the head also

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Milestone

Microscopic debris or bad workmanship blemish turns a molehill into a mountain through that default though.
Looks like a 2am girl to me. Good from afar but far from good, I don’t know, getting picky on this resto

My first ever decal install, other than putting stickers in my sticker books when I was a youngun.

Wow, can’t believe I’m finally getting far enough at this it’s actually coming to fruition, fuck, might just get emotional here......lol
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Well, did the front of cab. I’d have to say the print is off kilter on the decal. I did what I have read from others and centered the yellow start button using a flashlight inside the cab. I checked with the coin door mount and there is zero white showing and you’d never know it’s off. Cut it back 1/8 and will probably get a black paint pen and touch up the corners a tad, will be minimal but will help out.

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Finished the cabinet. Overall, cab decal installation was definitely better/easier than I though it would be, finally my anxiety about doing this is gone, wasn’t as bad as the PF clearcoat but still was scared to do it. Final stretch this week in the evenings as time permits around my boys hockey schedule.

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I don’t think so, I prob cut exactly the same off with the knife at the back top. I got these from Retro Refurbs. I’ll check out the space between the top and the artwork.

Looked over the cabinet today. Overall i'm very displeased with myself with the decal application. I didn't think at the time I was rushing the application, but I only needed to probably take one more minute a side as I was "squeegeeing" the decal down with the small felt squeegee and a microfibre cloth. There is bubbling that I can not seem to remove. I should have just taken more time and pushed in smaller, harder brushes to make sure it went on with less bubbling.
It's like it felt like there was a clock ticking as your applying it like they are going to go bad somehow if you don't rush it a bit.

I feel the quality of the Retro Refurbs product is a fantastic quality cabinet decal, and would buy again in a heartbeat. I did the heat gun, microfibre cloth wipe after and you could really tell the heat helped the decal "grab" the cab.

Yeah, a couple, it was overnight and the shape of the bubble was kind of locked in. Might need to do it a bit more with just a hairdryer and rub the bubbles a bit more

Not a big night, a buddy came over for a visit and put a dent in my Pin time. Installed the cab protectors and put the rails on also, I’ll peel the protective stuff off when it’s time ;

Hey, I’m supposed to “score” around the cab protector on the decal now hey? I think I’ve read that somewhere on the site.

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Progress and landmarks.
Dropped that heavy ass bitch into the cab tonight. First time putting one back in, whew.........
Bolted the topper mech in, strapping in wire harnesses and getting wire loom tidied up. Looks pretty fuckin’ killer as far as I’m concerned!!!

Major “to-do’s”
-Wire in the wires and bulb sockets for the transparent red flipper buttons
-Wire inline the L pot for my upgraded speaker setup.
-Make it less like Lieutenant Dan
-find all my screw ups after powering on

Question - any suggestions before power up, should I power up without PF wiring terminated? Just the boards or anything like that? Or just cross the fingers and hope everything is a ok and fire it up when all strapped in?
Thx!

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Yeah, one of their kits. I wouldn’t do it. The orange rubber on the top lanes doesn’t match great as far as I’m concerned. Not consistent enough with then greens and blues, to much mixing up

It’s not bad. I actually like the orange up top. It’s just weird the way the blues and greens don’t flow well.

Well, I don’t care what you say, I think that is an absolute thing of beauty!!!!

Pic doesn’t do it justice

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Ok, used the “How to ad a cheap sub for under $40” thread and made my own super sounding pin (Hopefully!!)

I wired in everything to an L-Pad and made a custom bracket for it in the corner of the back box. Turned out great imo

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Absolutely.
Ill prob turn it on today.

Well, plugged it in and things are good and maybe bad.

It fires up. All LEDS on all boards function as the manual says. It goes into attract mode.

I have no display and no sound. I’ll to chase down what that can be. My best guess is something simple, but we’ll see how that goes. When turning it off a quick pile of leds flicker on the display quickly

OK, the sound was simple somfa

Unseated and reseated the ribbon cable at J601, I think I may have had it one pin over and missed some.

Fired it up and got a bong, then (5)ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.

Attract mode but NO display

Well, son of a gun.
Still no display

BUT found a blown fuse at F105 (Solenoid 1-8)

Unplugged a few of the mechs that are in 1-8
Dicked around with the catapult, which was engaging over and over again about every 2 seconds.

Everything seems ok, catapult hitting ok, even though it’s not supposed to be. Kept digging in and was ohming out then leads on the switch for it, and I had nothing, must be screwed inside the cherry switch. I couldn’t even get it to close with the Fluke leads on the switch leads pushing the switch down.

Amazingly enough I found a spare used cherry switch with the same curved end in my spares box!!

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Repaired a few of the initial problems.

- ball popper coil was shot, that was making the catapult keep hitting...weird.
- had a couple open wires.
- nothing currently in error.
- display was an easy one, I figured it had to be, but I’m just dumb, had the display ribbon cable upside down on the backbox end

OH ONE PROBLEM- forgot- the bottom half of backbox lights are at 4 v. The top half is what it’s supposed to be 6.8v.
What should I look at for that??

Haven’t tossed the balls in yet, I’ll clean the oil off them tomorrow and see if I can get a game in.
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Hey all, if your thinking of buying a better sub for your pin, I went with these instructions and followed Post#20 and got great results!

I bought the exact same crossover, L-Pad and Speaker in list.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/how-to-add-a-cheap-sub-under-40-that-sounds-awesome-to-your-wpc-game

Here’s one if the inaugural games. Either i uploaded a shitty quality or I don’t know

LOVE the depth of sound now that I have it dialed in. Great bass!
Haven’t played this in about a year. Holy NOT ready for the lightning flippers

Couple baby tweaks here and there and get the G.I. bulbs hooked up to the translucent flipper buttons and it’ll be complete.

Yeah, youngest was dying to play, it’s always been his fav.

As a follow up also, these lights are worth their weight in gold! Brighten up a pin amazingly. Buy them!

https://www.cometpinball.com/mobile/product.aspx?ProductCode=11smdbmpdisc&404;http://www.cometpinball.com:80/Pinball-Pop-Bumper-LED-Light-p/11smdbmpdisc.htm=

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Just tossing a follow up in here. I did a 2k spray myself. After 1.4 years and 290 plays the playfield looks like glass so far, it’s basically the same as when I repopulated it. So really, really cool to see how it held up!!