Marty, I tried to quickly find your initial thread on AA but without success. You really got me considering very hard following your path. But I want to prepare myself as much as possible. You used the heat method. What did you used to remove the glue from the playfield and did you squirt it under the mylar? Also what did you use to finally clean the playfield with, I read one article using napthane or something. Just want to get all the tooling and chemicals sourced and ready before kicking arse. Thanks
The first mylar removal was done with the hair dryer. Basically I carefully lifted an edge of the mylar with a finger and gently heated both the top and underside of the mylar. When you find the 'sweet spot' it will generally peel away with the slightest of pressure - almost nothing except holding it. The second lot was done exactly the same, except I was given a Ryobi heat gun for xmas, as the lovely was getting upset I kept using her good hairdryer!. The Ryobi one is good as there are different attachments to focus the heat, as well as temp is more adjustable, however a hairdryer will do just fine. It will look pretty bad once you remove the mylar, but as Nino suggested Shellite is fantastic for this. Just a lot of clean rags and time. No squirting of liquid onto the playfield. Just put shellite onto rag, rag onto pf and scrub. From memory the first one took about 3 hours to clean properly. The best advise I can give with this, from my experiences, is to (a) get a hold of or build a playfield jig, (b) remove playfield from machine (c) completely strip top side of playfield. Although it will take a bit more time at the start you will get a much better result. Shellite is available from Bunnings or the supermarket. If you want to build a homemade playfield JIG, Nino's is documented and my pirated knockoff version of his is also there too, with measurements and costs (bit over $40.00 from memory).
Give it a go. Start stripping the playfield, its always a good start and good to clean all posts, rubbers and furniture too! My final bit of advise, if you can get an independant person to assist with photographing and bag labelling of playfield parts, this will help. I generally start out the right way, then get focused and forget to take pictures. Photos, more photos and more photos from every angle, of every part. Will make the rebuild a lot easier.
Mate, what a great second attempt, that looks sensational.
I haven't been here for a while and was only thinking last week its time to strip my T2 and get stuck it into.(Was thinking about selling mine too but played a few games and can't part with it)
Your work is very inspiring to say the least 
I have a small amount of insert cracking compared to what you have been through and your thread will make it a hell of a lot easier to deal with mine.
The decals you applied look factory fitted a real credit to your workmanship, I think I drank 4 beers ohhing and aghing over this thread.
Well done and thankyou for documenting it so well!
Can't wait to get stuck into mine now.
Wow, thankyou. This site and the guys here continually raise the bar when it comes to restores. I'm looking forward to seeing another T2 thread!
