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I love this topic. I was missing the plumb bob + wire from my Airborne, but my supplier only had the bob, so I went ahead and fabricated one myself from a cloth hanger.
It is a temporary solution, but hey, so is life.
In the same machine, I also fabricated a new metal frame to hold the flasher behind the injector. If I ever need to rebuild the flippers, I am going to go ahead with Sega and WMS parts, thus creating a real Frankenpin.
Quoted from uncivil_engineer:That SF2 was in horrible shape when I got it home. It's been my long term restoration project for over a year now.
Yeah, but, WHY?
Quoted from nasco62:This was great repair work
I think I would have used a screw instead 
Quoted from nwpinball:Cheaper than replacing those fuses that keep blowing... what could go wrong? This was on a Star Trek Next Gen I bought as a re-import on a container deal two years ago. It cleaned up nice though!
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I guess it still works as a fuse, like 10 or 20 amps slow-blow .
Quoted from MarAlb:I am giving it a 10 for the effort
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I love how all the cables still have a different color coding!
Quoted from DuffysArcade:Find a deal on a Radical for a friend. Looked behind the backbox lighting panel and under the playfield and my eyes began to bleed. Would you look at this? It looks like the playfield & Backbox GI lighting had a short, or perhaps the connector fried...not sure, but some genius cut all the GI wiring and hacked some kind of transformer to supply the power to it all. Wiring wrapped up in packing tape, exposed 220v wiring, jumper wires hanging everywhere, just an absolute, verifiable s#*tshow. Gonna be an adventure helping my buddy revert this back to factory condition.
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Since you found your friend this deal, why did you insist on him buying it in the first place?
Quoted from harig:watch out-it seems you can mix up some connectors on the WPC89-PDB causing one of the big capacitors to get overvoltage..don´t remember which connectors it was but there clearly is a possibility to damage things due to wrong placed connectors!
But you must be a massive tool to do so, as all the cables have fixed length and probably after all these years are pretty much bent into the correct shape/position.
(I also once made a mistake on my DE Turtles back in the day, and that also felt really dumb afterwards, as you could clearly see I crossed the boards with two cables)
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