Quoted from vid1900:Sometimes you hear someone tell you to just use a piece of wood with a hammer and bash the inserts back down level with the playfiield. Often they say "go ahead, you won't hurt them".
The problem is that although they will stay down for awhile, whatever forces that were in the wood that ejected them in the first place are still there, and they tend to pop up again.
You can heat inserts with a heat gun and press them down with the 12" C-clamp - this tends to last longer than just hitting them, but still they tend to pop back up.
Once you have a nice clear coat on the playfield, you don't want to ever mess with the inserts again, so just reglue them the correct way.
Hey Vid, am getting ready to work on some raised inserts and was wondering if you heat the inserts from underneath the playfield or on top of the playfield? I plan on using a hairdryer (as per your suggestion for beginners.) How much heat should I apply? Does it just take a little to get the glue to soften or do I need to get it mildly hot?
Thanks!