OK, the Getaway is now 90% completed. I still have to touch up the corners and a couple of spots where the decal (oversize parts) took a little paint off.
The worst side of the decals came out 99% perfect. The bad news is the side (left) which was not too bad off, went on and the crease which was on it would not budge and has left a crease in the decal. I'm shattered but what do you do. Its annoying the crap out of me as otherwise it would have been a 100% successful resto. I will try with a hairdryer in a couple of days to see if I can get some of it out but its creased and done. Its not really sticking where it was. I think the glue was gone. I might try and put the word out in the unlikely event someone has a r/h/s decal laying about.
Otherwise, new legs, bolts, side rails and I splashed out on a new coin door from TPF. I must say for $120.00 it was well worth it and makes a massive difference.
What else...Hmm...replaced the outlane switch for the kickback. It would generally do a double tap before. The wrong switch was installed and it was firing too early (the rollover metal switch was around the wrong way causing this). Every coil re-sleaved. Every pivot (metal on metal) lubed, every playfield bolt, ramp, screw tumbled and cleaned.
Traffic light - not working, replaced the 3 diodes in her, put some coloured LED's in and now great.
Loom cleaned up and new cable ties. All boards / plugs worked 1st time so at least something went right!...
The playfield came up great. Huge shine on it and plays unreal. I'm very happy with my Treasure-Cove cleaning kit and I'll be using it on all my machines from now...
Huge thanks to Greg (RTBB) for all his help with advice and sourcing parts for me so quickly. Big thanks to Mark for his help too.
