(Topic ID: 246573)

TAF Bookcase disc level

By yowl

4 years ago



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  • Latest reply 4 years ago by pintechev
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#1 4 years ago

Hi, I'm no expert but have this TAF which has been dismantled and is being reassembled (by me) due to moving continents (in a suitcase - or rather several). For the most part this is going fine. Before coming apart the bookcase was nice and level with the playfield. I've seen some TAFs where the bookcase is depressed to the extent that the ball gets caught on the edge of the disk. Anyway having put the bookcase back in the playfield it seems a few mm high at the front to the point where I'm pretty sure the ball is going to jump as it crosses from the playfield to the disc. This seems odd to me as the brackets are steel and not likely to shrink. I can stick a couple of washers under some of the mounts to level it and bring it down at the front (this machine is far from perfect anyway and I like playing it more than looking at it), but how can this happen to the bookcase, it doesn't seem possible that it could move? The bookcase itself has not been dismantled.

Thanks for reading.

#2 4 years ago

There is a factory shim that goes under one of the screw mounts. If that is missing it won’t level properly. Using washers is fine.

#3 4 years ago

Hey Yowl,
This is what the factory shim looks like. https://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/01-10759
Wally

#4 4 years ago

Thanks, makes sense. Is that part tapered?

#5 4 years ago

Does that shim go under the bracket with just the one screw? Seems like there is a bit of a knack to getting this thing level all the way round.

#6 4 years ago

Goes here:

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#7 4 years ago

Thanks!. (Looks very clean, I think I can see my face in the plastic )

#8 4 years ago
Quoted from yowl:

Thanks!. (Looks very clean, I think I can see my face in the plastic )

Thanks! That was my first swap
/restoration

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