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Re: Williams Firepower 1980
« Reply #90 on: March 15, 2012, 06:10:33 AM »
I went very close to putting a hole through the PF  @.@
Take care drilling holes on the backside of shooter lane where the wood has been routed !

There is a few mm of play where the flipper bushing comes through the playfield, I fixed the flipper assemblies so the bushes were hard to back of this hole, so as to give the ball a smooth path from guides onto the flippers and eliminate the bump as discussed in another thread.





Had to put a bit of time into the roll over stars, used a knife to trim the clear coat as per the CPR website, but found the star inserts sat to high when they were down, I used a dremel with a cylinder shaped grinding stone to grind the base of the playfield inserts, I think the clear coat had built up the bottom seat. Still not totally flush but the plastic is very thin and fragile looking so did not want to push my luck..





Like most Firepowers, my stand up targets in front of the flippers were a mix of parts and had taken a beating. I have replaced the six targets with the enhanced versions from PBR, they are really solid looking and should hold up well, I was not sure about the bracket though, as only the two fixings and they would be very close to edge, with no give in this heavy duty enhanced target. Ended up making some brackets out of 30mm ALU angle I had, no doubt it's overkill but I'm happy. The other targets were still ok so I just replaced the the bullseye target.




All coming together well, I'll get the wiring loom back on in the next couple of days and once that's done there won't be too much left to do.