Quoted from cody_chunn:If you're ordering from Pinball Resource, you want to crack $100 to get a 10% discount. So get everything you need for a thorough top-to-bottom reconditioning:
1 set rubber rings, including arch rebound, flippers, and a few extra mini-posts and 5/16 if they are numerous on your game. 50 rubber speednuts.
A few boxes of 44 and 47 lamps. 47s behind the glass, 44s everywhere else, IMO. Some folks don't like 44s at all, but 47s artoo dim for me in GI.
Plastic posts if any are damaged. If many are in bad shape and will clash with new, buy at least as many new ones as are visible from a player's vantage point.
Flipper bats if they are discolored or damaged.
Pop bumper caps if they are discolored or scorched. If they are scorched, get wedge-based lamp sockets (and some 555 lamps) that you can lean over in the pop body to get it away from the cap. Might as well go all the way and get pop bumper bodies too. Then you'll need new skirts...will another color skirt look better than what's on it? Try them and see!
You're gonna have at least a handful of bad GI and feature lamp sockets that will be flaky as a biscuit, so get a few of each (they are designated by the measurement of the vertical part between the flange with the screw hole and the spot where the vertical part bends underneath.
Might want to get some large (playfield) and small (relay) leaf blades and contacts.
A couple of good fuse clips
Point files; one coarse, one fine.
Manual/pamphlet/schematics.
Balls.
There's a "starting" point, anyway! Git to it!
All great info. Plus I would order:
a leaf adjustment tool (although I prefer the one from Marco which has the 45 degree end). I also prefer Marco's bulb remover, but PBR's is good too.
Yes to the contacts - personally i would rebuild that leaf switch with a new contact (you just insert contact into correct hole and hit on the back with a peen end of hammer) but the other methods mentioned above work fine of course
flex stone
assortment of fuses
a large bottle of 91% Alcohol from CVS, and a ton of micro-fiber cloths from Amazon/Costo.
oh, and some Valium...you'll need it at some point with these lovely machines.
