Talking about pop bumpers, the main large hole was 2-3mm under sized and I had to use a piece of dowell and sand paper to bore them out. From the wrong angle a person might have thought I was having a good time with myself
I then proceeded to remove most of the mechanisms/assemblies from underneath and reassembled them on the new playfield. I also put all the topside playfield posts on the new pf as I took them off. This wasn't a good idea for the wood screw type ones and the pre-dimples can be off. I got caught out with a couple when it came to assembling the plastics.
I tried to leave as much connected to the cabling as possible so I could avoid heaps of soldering and trying to remember what wires went where. So I decided to label each globe, switch etc simply by a number or S1 for a switch on the cable loom and on the new playfield dimple location. Masking tape did the trick. Some components were obvious on where they would go but hey what another 2 or 3 labels in the scheme of things. I then moved the larger cable clips and posts to the new pf to help with cable orientation.
What this did was I just unscrewed everything without a care and dumped the cable and all on the new pf. It was like join the dots and took me bugger all time to have the underside down. I thought this would be the hardest task but turned out the easiest.
The fun part I thought would be putting the plastics back but again there were holes missing and mods to be be made. All in all a pain in the arse but the reward was seeing the pf coming together.
I think I needed to look at a couple of photos but the rest just fell into place as I bagged and numbered each section I removed. I forgot to mention, I also took notes as well as photos and video. There was no way of mistakes here.
So the final step prior to putting the new pf into the cabinet was I checked every globe, switch and mech to make sure I have bent any lugs etc that could short the thing out.
