I didn't take much for "before" pictures, but you can imagine 15 years of recent dust and 10 more or so years of nicotine bar scene piled inside and out.
First order of business was to make the electronics work. The MPU was corroded pretty bad, but the rebuild kit from Great Plains electronics contained most of what I needed. Just a half-dozen more simple components beyond the kit and I had what I needed. I reinforced many degraded traces so it's not visually pretty, but it solid now and has a remote battery. Had the wrong sound ROM installed so got a new one from John Wart and the sounds are much better now.
Rebuilt the rectifier board and reinforced grounds & such as per Clay's guide. Replaced some components on the voltage regulator area too.
Did a thorough shop job. Removed everything off the playfield so it was totally bare on top. Cleaned all the posts with a toothbrush & novus, polished all the metal parts and screw heads, polished all the plastics & pop caps. Replaced the skirts, bodies and spoons and most of the flipper parts. There were several loose things on the playfield that are now solid again. All new sleeves and a couple coil stops. Cleaned & waxed the playfield and installed all new rubber of course. New slingshot plastic hook thingies (don't know what they're called, but it's the white piece that contacts the sling rubber).
There were a couple switches that had the diode clipped leaving them open and dead, so that's fixed now. Half a dozen feature lamps had broken crimp connectors at the plug end so replaced those. Replaced all the bulbs.
Cleaned the back side of the backglass. Man that was grungy, but it cleaned up nice. Looks like new again.
Cleaned up the cabinet with a good cleaner.
I guess it's done! Plays very snappy now and it's pretty fun.
It was interesting and entertaining, but I tend to get obsessive near the end of a shop job and other important things get put off, so I'm extremely glad this project is done.
Woohoooooo!
