You either love or hate this game. I am one of the rare guys that enjoyed the banana flippers, especially on this game. What fantastic sounds this game had also.

I didnt touch the cabinet on this game, the main 'restore' revolved around a playfield swap as this playfield had wear near the flippers and was generally pretty shabby.

Unbelievably a found a NOS Time warp playfield on Ebay USA within 3 days of buying this machine, I bought it for $70.00 and the guy gave me a Disco Fever NOS playfield for $30.00 as well, then they didnt arrive.......so this guy re-sends me 2 more and they arrived about 4 weeks later ( the first 2 turned up 6 months later as well !! )

I did a bit of reading up on playfield swaps and this made me really nervous. In the end it wasnt too difficult at all, the hardest thing was the GI string that you just cant buy, so I had heard that you could use de-soldering braid for this purpose.

She was a bit rough !

I had to find the bumper caps too.

 This wear near the Shoot Again was the bit that bothered me the most

 It also had painted blue flippers with no rubbers.

I had been told the BLUE rubbers were impossible to find.

This instantly looked better, but I know nothing about electronics and swapping bits over...

So the dining room became a repair shop for a month. This NOS playfield was dimpled and pre-drilled so I traced where all the GI lighting went first and then stapled the de-soldering braid into place.

You can see the line markings for the GI string in this shot.

And here was how I removed the old parts under the old playfield, as many had done before me I simply unscrewed everything and slid the whole 'harness' off onto a piece of cardboard. I mad sure I labelled and numbered EVERY screw hole on each playfield to correspond.

Then I simply slid all that off the cardboard and onto the new playfield, it stayed in place remarkably well.

So in the end it wasnt anywhere near as difficult as I had assumed it would be.

Heres some shots of the playfield all finished up. I did manage to find 2 x brand new old stock BLUE banana rubbers as well !

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