Slide something strong and thin under the wire guides and pry them up a bit at a time on each end. Should come out clean enough. Also out a credit card under the area of te playfield you are prying against so you don't ruin anymore playfield art.
Lockdown bar receiver took lots of elbow grease. Sandpaper and wet sanding. Start with something like 400 and see how it does and then step up from there until you are wetsanding with 1000 or higher. Or you can get a bench buffing wheel with a wire wheel on one side and a nice buffing pad on the other. Saves time and effort but costs more if you don't have the buffer already. Buffer works great on metal rails and lockdown bars. Any big metal parts really.
All the metal posts and nuts can either be polished by hand with steelwool/neverdull(metal polish that comes in a silver container. Its full of cotton that is soaked in something kind of oily. Works great on chrome parts). It takes forever that way. Or 2 other options if you have a the buffer from the lockdown bar you an use that. Be careful. Hold parts with pliers as they will get hot. Or the third and easiest is buy a vibratory tumbler and tumble them with crushes walnut shell. Tumbler sold where gun supplies can be had or horror freight. Crushes walnut you can get for cheap at the pet store. Its used for lizard tank bedding.
As far as pulling up wood with the posts if its all hidden under the post you can just touch it up and be happy with it. If its a big chunk of wood I would fill it in with strong wood filler epoxy or something like dolphin glaze
Hope that answers all your questions. I have a couple other threads on a high speed and a xenon that would have a lot more info that may help you. About to start a Pinbot thread next for one in into now.
Jim.
Mesa, AZ
