In Progress Will I ever enter - The Twilight Zone

[AlexP]

Ok,
Long time lurker on here but first real time posting.
A bit of background, been in the hobby since the late 90’s mainly enjoyed fixing up machines and then selling them on to fund the next one, took a break after moving house and having a child 10 or so years ago.
Last year I picked up my favourite machine (TZ was first ever machine I owned) to get me back into the hobby.
I decided to “outsource” the cabinet refurb to Ant from the forum and tackle putting a new Mirco playfield in myself, which was all going fine until I found that somehow I’d cracked one of the inserts and made a mess trying to fix it. So now I’m back to the start with a playfield No 2.
Putting this restoration on here as motivation for me to get cracking, so feel free to throw me some abuse or encouragement to get this completed.

Apologies in advance.

Alex

 

[cmrl9]

Good luck, twighlight zone is a complex game.

I've striped and cleaned one the top half, there nothing particularly challenging. It's a master of design very easy to work on, well the top half was. Still a lot of parts and mechs to fit.

My only advice is to get the dolly thing to hold the playfield.

You can get them in Europe but can't remember where I toyed with getting one, but haven't had to replace a playfield (yet)

 

[cmrl9]

@s000m will be able to point you where to get one from if you need

 

[Ant-H]

Looking forward to seeing this Alex

Did Mirco send you the replacement in the end? Have you installed the new wooden rails on it?

If it’s a Mirco I’d definitely recommend getting them on there to avoid any bowing which seems to happen quite frequently with repro playfields due to the wood that they use.

 

[AlexP]

Looking forward to seeing this Alex

Did Mirco send you the replacement in the end? Have you installed the new wooden rails on it?

If it’s a Mirco I’d definitely recommend getting them on there to avoid any bowing which seems to happen quite frequently with repro playfields due to the wood that they use.

Ant,

Yes I got a replacement playfield but it was not free, I got it at a “discount” after a few emails.

Gonna try the rails this weekend!

Wish me luck.

Alex