1972 Nishijin Spring Jet playfield replacement project

[PinPsychosis]

Good luck with your restoration! I'm in the middle of replacing my first playfield right now (similar Nishijin machine), myself. There are a couple of good videos on playfield replacement on YouTube (Dan Welch) that are instructive. Things I didn't consider when removing the playfield board (and I didn't see mentioned in the videos or forums that I found) were:
1) the playfield board itself was nailed to the frame using nails that are rifled (not ring nails but more "grippy" than smooth nails);
2) my playfield has a lot of water damage (ergo the replacement); I hadn't considered that the nails mentioned above would also be rusty as a result. It took a lot of effort to get the playfield board out of the frame;
3) there are two wooden dowels installed to align the playfield board with the frame. I hadn't seen reference to these and I destroyed them (not the end of the world) while extracting the board from the frame...

Pete

[Moparformances]

Good luck with your restoration! I'm in the middle of replacing my first playfield right now (similar Nishijin machine), myself. There are a couple of good videos on playfield replacement on YouTube (Dan Welch) that are instructive. Things I didn't consider when removing the playfield board (and I didn't see mentioned in the videos or forums that I found) were:
1) the playfield board itself was nailed to the frame using nails that are rifled (not ring nails but more "grippy" than smooth nails);
2) my playfield has a lot of water damage (ergo the replacement); I hadn't considered that the nails mentioned above would also be rusty as a result. It took a lot of effort to get the playfield board out of the frame;
3) there are two wooden dowels installed to align the playfield board with the frame. I hadn't seen reference to these and I destroyed them (not the end of the world) while extracting the board from the frame...

Pete

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