A few more hours spent over the last couple of evenings. Started pulling the old bayonet light holders off the NBA GI harness, then linking them up and installing on the MM playfield. A reasonably slow but easy job. The GI by the manual states it is top, middle and lower playfield - so i just organised them into groupings split roughly into thirds of the playfield, with almost equal numbers of bulbs in each string.
All done, and i thought it was OK until i starting thinking that the new playfield didn't have any holes drilled for the flipper shafts....until i realised in my haste to install the light holders, i had put one in each of the two flipper holes! Left side removed, right side in the pic below needs to be removed.
Pulled the old flipper plates and mechanisms apart, someone had got pretty keen wrapping some extra length of spring here
New flipper bushing, coil stop, sleeve, plunger and link, and printed a new wrapper as well