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Real plastic underside.
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Old flipper lane guide plastics were originals but badly yellowed.
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New assemblies will be made up with extended metal guides for a bit more forgiving game play as well as new plastics
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Newly built assembly with polished screws.
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Same process will take place on all other plastics.The hardware will also be replaced and or polished depending on
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Another example with new plastics,post and hardware.
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Power box will need some additional effort.Needs to be converted to 120V.
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Metal is too far gone to polish so nickel plating is the next step.
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Nickel plated.Rewired with the correct protections put in place as well as a service outlet..
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Power box is now in good order.
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Now on to the translate .
The translate itself is trash.
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The translate channels are trash as well.Broken,short and taped to the hold them on.Also discovered that the galss is too
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New replacement translate was sourced.
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New correct size glass.Also of note it is the tempered variety which is needed.
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Translite assembled with the new glass and channels.
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Now I will start working through the ramps.There is so much more to deal with on this restore than what is normally e
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Alpha ramp is trashed as well as the wiring.
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New alpha ramp assembled with a newly made wring harness.I will be swapping the flap out for a stainless steel on as we
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Scoop on the right was the original it was broken and taped together.Replacement scoop on the left.Made of stainle
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Bow the underplayfield trough.This is a beast right here.It also has some of the worst hacks in the game present,cut
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The corrosion is heavy on these trough parts.
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You can see the little taped splices at most opto locations.This being the case and the optos being so important I wo
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The trough is broken on top of all that.
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This is the other side.
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Tearing it down.This proicess will take several hours because I have to clean,polish sort then manually create the entire
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Old trough is gutted and a new one is in hand .Starting bare.
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Several hours later here we are.New trough,all parts cleaned polished rebuilt with all new optos.
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New harness was created manually and color coded in a way that at the very least somewhat mimics the factory version i
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Trough is done
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Now the Beta ramp.
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More corrosion.
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Wrong ship as was previously note.
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New Beta ramp built with stainless flap and newly made harness.
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Correct ship now in place along with a new clear plastic..
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Transformer.Needs help.
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Will start by cleaning it.
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Transformer is cleaned and refreshed.
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Flipper opto boards are suspect at best.
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