Mechanicals

Every moving part on the playfield, not just the coils, needed to be completely disassembled, cleaned, adjusted, and rebuilt. This included the drop target assemblies, pop bumpers, slingshots, out-hole kickers, spinners, rollover buttons, rollover switches, targets, and stand-up switches.

In addition to this, every light bulb was replaced underneath every feature light insert, and inside every general illumination location. This was several nights worth of work all by itself, but is one of my favorite parts of the restoration process. It's almost therapeutic, sitting on my stool, tinkering and puttering with little mechanical devices while listening to a recorded program on my laptop. It's a slow process (there aren't many quick ones), but once it's done correctly, you know that most of the mechanics beneath the playfield should just quite simply work, assuming they are getting the correct signals from the circuit boards. Of course, that's another problem altogether.