Really Stupid Question about Freddy: Nightmare on Elmstreet

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Really Stupid Question about Freddy: Nightmare on Elmstreet

How the hell do you get the playfield to raise up. I've done it plenty on Williams Pins, but for the life of me, I can't figure it out on this one. I flip the lever under the playfield, remove the bar, remove the glass from off the playfield, try to lift up,......pull the shooter back and try to lift up,......stand on one foot chanting open sesame while I rub my lucky rabbit's foot, while trying to lift up, while pulling the shooter rod out. Nothing. I'm stumped. I oiled the bar that slides back and forwards with the lever as it was a bit rusted. I did notice that there was two holes that looked like they would line up if the bar was slid a little more to the left. But it won't go any further. I looked inside to see if it might have a latch and saw nothing. Am I missing something or should I seriously start thinking of running in the Special Olympics cause I'm damn well feeling like a champion. Any advice would be appreciated and thanks in advance.
 
By the sounds of your effort, I'd say you deserve at least the Bronze medal in the special olympics :)

The lever that locks the lock down bar also locks the playfield down. Make sure that is "open" and pull the playfield up. I suspect your cab is bit tweaked and no longer square making the playfield bind. Give it a side to side wiggle as you pull up.
 
For what its worth, I first thought that when I took the legs off and put them back on, I put both fronts on the left and both backs on the right or vice versa and that had put me in a bind. I finally got the playfield up and found that one of the metal brackets had lost screw. this let the bracket slide in and come off the metal sliders. So the play field sunk down to the left. This explains why I could never seem to get it leveled up. It must have been that way a while as the play field seemed somewhat warped from the ordeal. I have since replaced the screw, got the play field riding on the slider bracket and hopefully within a couple weeks, I will have the playflied back to normal. Just in case anyone was curious. Alas, my short lived career as a Special Olympian was cut down in the prime of my youth.
 
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