When it came to lighting up the apron, the challenge I had was how to mount an led strip for the blue acrylic used to light the Terminator 2 font.
Lighting the red Skynet skulls for easier enough as I had plenty of space to fix a couple of led strips to the playfield. However for the Terminator font, the drain coil was right in the middle, and directly under the blue acrylic I wanted to light up.
After some head scratching and some measuring I came up with a plan
First thing to do was to cut some spare black acrylic I had and then drill 3 x 6mm holes in it. These were then counter sunk so that the bolt head would sit flush with the acrylic.
Next I marked the position of the holes onto the playfield and drilled these as well.
I then cut down 3 spacers to 28mm in order to give me the clearance needed for the acrylic to sit above the coil mechanism.
It was then a simple case of running the bolts through the spacers and locking them in place on the underside of the playfield with a few nyloc nuts.
Luckily my measurements were spot on as I had enough clearance on both the underside and the top so that I could mount the led strip so it wouldn’t hit the the apron.
After doing a quick test, I’m really pleased with the distribution of the light and overall how the apron looks. I can now cross this job off the list and move onto rebuilding the back box.
Lighting the red Skynet skulls for easier enough as I had plenty of space to fix a couple of led strips to the playfield. However for the Terminator font, the drain coil was right in the middle, and directly under the blue acrylic I wanted to light up.
After some head scratching and some measuring I came up with a plan
First thing to do was to cut some spare black acrylic I had and then drill 3 x 6mm holes in it. These were then counter sunk so that the bolt head would sit flush with the acrylic.
Next I marked the position of the holes onto the playfield and drilled these as well.
I then cut down 3 spacers to 28mm in order to give me the clearance needed for the acrylic to sit above the coil mechanism.
It was then a simple case of running the bolts through the spacers and locking them in place on the underside of the playfield with a few nyloc nuts.
Luckily my measurements were spot on as I had enough clearance on both the underside and the top so that I could mount the led strip so it wouldn’t hit the the apron.
After doing a quick test, I’m really pleased with the distribution of the light and overall how the apron looks. I can now cross this job off the list and move onto rebuilding the back box.
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