Mounting the mechanics on the playfield
The past couple of weeks have been spent cleaning and polishing the playfield mechanics and mounting them onto the playfield.
Rebuilding the pop-bumpers wasn’t as bad as I thought it might have been – the most difficult part actually being aligning the needle in the centre of the cup and adjusting the switch gap, so that the switch always activated in the “live” area of the pop bumpers. As the cups had been worn some-what in their own “active area”, I swapped the switches around so that the worn areas of the cups were well away from the switching area.
Pop-bumpers installed and waiting to be wired in
The rest of the mechanics then followed without a hitch:
Flipper and slingshot area
Diverter, Barrier, VUK, Martians
Once completed, the playfield looked like this:
Stage 1 complete…