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Below you will see some shots of the harness fitted to the new PF, to do it I simply placed the whole cardboard sheet with the whole harness on it , on top of the new PF, then, like a magician, I simply removed the cardboard by sliding it out to one side while holding the harness roughly in place where it should be. The end result was that about 90% of the components landed exactly where they were to be screwed into place. The only problem that I encountered was my own fault, because I had placed all the screws and mounts in place in the new PF and what happened was some of the wiring in the harness kept getting caught on the screws BUT it wasn't that much of a hassle, I just had to find where the harness was caught and lift it over the screw it was caught on- this happened about 10 times.
Before I screwed things down , I went around and re-soldered all of the wires that I had labeled earlier, so now that everything was re-wired all I had to do was put everything back in the correct spot. Taking the time to label everything earlier was a Godsend, it made it absolutely simple to screw everything back down.
The top half of this PF is a little bit busier than the bottom, there was more to do up here as this machine has 5 pop bumpers and 2 eject holes all in the top section. At this point I also replaced all the coils sleeves and filed all the PF switches with a flexstone contact file from PBR that cost me $0.70c !!
And here it is- the underside completely finished. I took my time to do this, I started the strip in Mid Feb 2005 and finished the underside in Mid March 2005. It was nowhere near as difficult as I had assumed it was going to be BUT it was extremely time consuming. At a guess I would have spent a total of about 15+ hours doing all the work you have just read about and I still have to go on now and do the topside of this PF ! I also pulled the target assemblies apart while I did this underside swap and cleaned them thoroughly and replaced the target stickers as well as replacing the flipper EOS switches too. The last two PF swap pages will show a few images of the topside swap started and then you can eventually see the whole machine completely finished by accessing the pages at my Main Time Warp Page. I hope that I have covered a PF swap in enough detail and haven't rambled too much, again I say , if you are considering it, just go for it.
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