Just as I looked over your guide, here’s what I found when pulling apart my first pop for playfield swap. Good thing I had extras!

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I’ve got a question: I rebuilt and placed my first pop last night, and it looks slightly off-kilter, as far as height. With the cap installed, there looks to be a little more of a gap than the old ones in the accompanying picture. Is that ok? The height of the ring itself appears to be the same...just the distance from the ring to the cap. Is it possible that the bodies I got are a bit taller?

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Well I answered my own question: the bodies are slightly taller, maybe 1/4 inch. Does this really matter? The bumper looks like
It will work just fine...is there any concern other than cosmetic?

Vid, I used your guide here to rebuild my firepower pops while doing the playfield restore. Good grief are they sensitive and fast! Thanks for all of your work on here.

Could be crappy/weakened metal as well. One of mine had the same thing happen to it.

Question for you Vid:

I had a fuse blow on my right lower Firepower pop bumper circuit (I installed the mod that fuses the solenoids on the J12 connector). This has not happened before I installed my restored play field, and rebuilt the pops per your guide here. I made them extra sensitive: the game rocks, those things are firing constantly and bouncing the ball all over the place! However, I wonder if, because of Firepower's configuration of the four pops in a square, when the ball repeatedly bounces back and forth between two of them very quickly, that it almost causes the circuit to be closed for too long, resulting in the blown fuse. Could this be the case? I have looked over everything else, and cannot find any other issue.

The installed fuses from the kit are 1.25 A.