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Offline pinnies4me

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Removing Williams Backglass Lift Channel
« on: April 29, 2012, 03:42:25 PM »
Picked up a backglass for my Firepower, but it's not fitting my head box. Is there a special technique for removing the metal lift channel from an early 1980's Williams backglass? I have applied tight pressure to see if it slides off, but it's tight and I am afraid of shattering the glass.

It's slightly off centre, about 3 or 4 mm to one side sticking out, so needs to be repositioned to go into my game.

Any thoughts?
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Re: Removing Williams Backglass Lift Channel
« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2012, 04:15:32 PM »
They are held in place with double sided tape... you need to carefully slide  a craft knife along the length on both sides to cut through the tape... normally its one piece in middle and one on either end

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Re: Removing Williams Backglass Lift Channel
« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2012, 05:02:21 PM »
Thanks Gav
“If you wanna escape, go up to a pinball machine. There’s a magic button on the front that takes you to a world under the glass and makes the the rest of the universe disappear.”