I'm going a little nuts trying to deal with the rear flashers on the playfield of F14. My semi-renovation has been a real slog as I live in a flat and while my wife and I aren't ever going to be on a show of Hoarders, I essentially have no space to remove the playfield and store it while working on it. In addition to storage, I don't have a spare pair of strong arms at my call for physically removing the playfield out of the cabinet without dropping it (and don't have any means of winching it out, like I've seen on a certain Ed's site)
More or less this is manageable with a couple of boxes for storing parts and taking the methodological approach, but this leaves me with absolutely no usable access to the flashers on the back of the playfield, their circuitry or some of the wiring loom connectors. Long-reach forceps, a mirror and a claw grabber only gets you so far - if it turns out I need the soldering iron back there, that's just not going to happen.
Does anyone have any top tips for dealing with this in limited space? I'm halfway to the point of just getting the jigsaw out and making myself a service hatch. The only thing stopping me is not knowing how much that would compromise the cabinet strength.
More or less this is manageable with a couple of boxes for storing parts and taking the methodological approach, but this leaves me with absolutely no usable access to the flashers on the back of the playfield, their circuitry or some of the wiring loom connectors. Long-reach forceps, a mirror and a claw grabber only gets you so far - if it turns out I need the soldering iron back there, that's just not going to happen.
Does anyone have any top tips for dealing with this in limited space? I'm halfway to the point of just getting the jigsaw out and making myself a service hatch. The only thing stopping me is not knowing how much that would compromise the cabinet strength.