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Teardown Techniques

By jsa

8 years ago


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    #22 8 years ago

    Any flat screen TV with a USB input will allow you to plug in a stick of pictures.

    So if you have one hanging in your garage, you have a great photo resource already installed.

    #28 8 years ago

    Don't bother cleaning and tumbling common screws.

    Way cheaper to buy new than to pay for Flitz.

    https://www.boltdepot.com/

    #44 8 years ago
    Quoted from 27dnast:

    I'd do this if I knew what to buy as a replacement...

    This cheat sheet will show you how to know what washer fits what bolt, and what all the different head configurations are, and how to measure the length of a fastener (do you include the head, or not????).

    There are actually 2 pages, so download it here:

    https://www.boltdepot.com/fastener-information/Printable-Tools/Fastener-Basics.pdf

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    #47 8 years ago
    Quoted from jwilson:

    What would be awesome is if someone else other than me went through and labeled all the screws and bolts in each manufacturer's games. So all the bolts they used in Williams, Bally, etc.

    One nice easy chart so I can just order all the bolts without having to sit there and measure each one.

    You will find that most games use the same parts. If you are doing a lot of restorations, make up a kit of common stuff:

    Pop rings use 6-32 nylon lock nuts, so get 100 of those, get 100 8-32 nylon lock nuts too for most other mechs.

    Get 100 6-32 and 8-32 T-nuts.

    Get 200 #6 and 200 #8 washers.

    Get 500 2" 6-32 pan head Philips machine screws

    You get the idea.

    If you are redoing a Gottlieb, then replace all those slotted screws with Phillips heads - this will prevent many accidents where the drive slips out of the crappy slotted head.

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