Question I have for the more experienced members here: What's the better way to install new Pinball Life mirror blades? This is the style with adhesive backing, no screw mounting. With playfield lifted up, or with playfield completely removed? I chose this version of mirror blades vs the other, for reasons below.
Game in question is my Stern Transformers LE, it had a set of mirror blades installed previously, but not secured very well. The screws on the original set, did not sit flush, and also had some slight warping of the blade, to where it wasn't completely flat against the cabinet wall. This continued to cause issues with lifting/lowering the playfield, even when using the pin guards, as the guards had trouble getting past the bottom mounting screws of the blades.
So fast forward to now, I've removed the old blades, cleaned up the trouble spots that were caused by the previous mounting screws(lightly sanding, cleaning, touching up), and looked at the PBL option with just the adhesive backing, to avoid a repeat of the previous set.
As much as I have been in and out of machines, this will be my first set of blades to install/re-install. I've watched numerous videos, read through a lot of different forum topics, but never did come across any mentioning this style of mirror blades. I would presume these would be similar to installing art blades, but maybe not, as this material is not as flexible as the art blades.
Just looking for suggestions, thank you everyone.