So I picked up this really nice and clean HUO MM off mrxsiv last week and haven't had a chance to spend time tweaking and modding it like I do most of my games. The first thing I had to do was protect my "investment". I installed this Cliffy shooter lane protector to prevent and hide some wear that was already starting.
Swapped the stock black rubber post sleeves at each ramp with red ones from Cliffy as well.
Now onto a full flipper rebuild since the right flipper felt a bit weak making it up the left ramp and both were not symmetrical when held up.
I was debating swapping to these extra purple flipper bats but ended up sticking with the stock white bats with purple super bands. I grabbed some toothpicks to help align both flipper bats and made sure there was a proper gap before I tightened everything underneath.
Next up was adding a Joust Knight above the left ramp entrance. Thanks to Drano who had an extra one and he even found the CAD template he used before to create a proper mount too! I stopped by Lowes today during my lunch and went to the ducting section and picked up this cover for $2.99 and some wood screws.
I traced the template onto the metal and used some tin snips to cut it out, bent it by hand using the edge of my desk and drill holes for the mounts.
I did a quick test fit in the game to see which way to orient the horse and knight so it clear the ball going up/down the ramp and the playfield glass when slide back in.
Now I drilled some pilot holes under the horse and used some wood screws and old black rubber post sleeves to mount onto the bracket.
I added in some extra GI lighting underneath the catapult. I took apart a warm white flex #555 LED and extended the wires to tap into an existing GI socket.
The last plastic I wanted to light up was the Merlin wizard one. I remove this existing plastic to mount a #555 socket.
It looks more complete now that these two areas are lit in my opinion.
That is it for now and in the future I plan on adding LEDs for each trolls' eyes and use a dremel and cut out the window openings on the castle and light it up with LEDs from the inside. I also plan to send the wire forms in for re-plating at the local place I used last month which turned out great for my other games. If anyone wants to get some stuff replated and tag along my order let me know. You can see the results here
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2732
For now I am just going to enjoy playing my MM for a few months. Enjoy!
Swapped the stock black rubber post sleeves at each ramp with red ones from Cliffy as well.
Now onto a full flipper rebuild since the right flipper felt a bit weak making it up the left ramp and both were not symmetrical when held up.
I was debating swapping to these extra purple flipper bats but ended up sticking with the stock white bats with purple super bands. I grabbed some toothpicks to help align both flipper bats and made sure there was a proper gap before I tightened everything underneath.
Next up was adding a Joust Knight above the left ramp entrance. Thanks to Drano who had an extra one and he even found the CAD template he used before to create a proper mount too! I stopped by Lowes today during my lunch and went to the ducting section and picked up this cover for $2.99 and some wood screws.
I traced the template onto the metal and used some tin snips to cut it out, bent it by hand using the edge of my desk and drill holes for the mounts.
I did a quick test fit in the game to see which way to orient the horse and knight so it clear the ball going up/down the ramp and the playfield glass when slide back in.
Now I drilled some pilot holes under the horse and used some wood screws and old black rubber post sleeves to mount onto the bracket.
I added in some extra GI lighting underneath the catapult. I took apart a warm white flex #555 LED and extended the wires to tap into an existing GI socket.
The last plastic I wanted to light up was the Merlin wizard one. I remove this existing plastic to mount a #555 socket.
It looks more complete now that these two areas are lit in my opinion.
That is it for now and in the future I plan on adding LEDs for each trolls' eyes and use a dremel and cut out the window openings on the castle and light it up with LEDs from the inside. I also plan to send the wire forms in for re-plating at the local place I used last month which turned out great for my other games. If anyone wants to get some stuff replated and tag along my order let me know. You can see the results here
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2732
For now I am just going to enjoy playing my MM for a few months. Enjoy!
