Thnaks Nino & Marty for the advice. Looking at my playfield, the mylar seems to be targeted at specific areas ie. the open area portion of the playfield starting at th eshoot again insert all the way to the skull opening. There doesn't seem to be many things populated around these areas. So I'm thinking remove everything bar pop bumpers, canon and the skull. The mylar around the pop bumpers is still quite good. I wasn't even considering of removing the playfield as I'm not going to mylar or clear coat, just wax. T2 probably gets 100 games played per year.
What do you reckon, or is there more reasoning behind removing everything that I haven't considered?
I guess it depends on what you are doing with the playfield. For me, having done the T2 now twice (officially), I found it much easer to remove parts from playfield whilst having it out on the stand, as well as cleaning it was sooo easy this way (mind you I am a shortarse).. If the area around pop bumpers is fine, then lower half of playfield it is! Me personally, I would then remove all plastics, slings, posts etc down to apron and hardware below. Its probably worth removing all of it and giving it a real good clean.
If you have a stand (or decide to make one) its really very easy removing the playfield. I've avoided it for a long time thinking it was a massive job, but its not. As Nino suggested to me, its only about 10 or so plugs to remove from backboard for the whole loom, drop to lower cab and remove - helps with a second person too. Just label and photograph once you identify which ones to remove. Just keep in mind not all the posts have t-nuts, so there will be a lot of going under the pf to remove nuts.
However, it can be done insitu no probs. Just set yourself up so your comfortable and confident!
The plastic area around the skull is a little fiddly. Easy to break the plastic too (found out the hard way).
