STTNG where does this go?

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I'm putting my STTNG back together, and I think some parts where incorrectly installed when I got it. I need some help as to where this goes. Based on a picture I found on the internets (http://www.uniqueamusements.com/playfield_01.jpg), I can tell it's in the wrong place, just haven't found any pics of the right place for it.

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Looks like some sort of self made mod. I don't think that goes anywhere else at all. I think that is just a homebrew fix. I looked at mine and it really doesn't serve much of a purpose at all. Mine looks like your second pic btw with the plastic wall and not bumpers. It would only come into play if the ball somehow jumped the the hole behind the borg ship, and it would have to even clear a wall to get up into that area but it looks like it prevents the ball from getting stuck up there. Those homebrew bumpers would technically serve the same purpose. As for it going somewhere else on the playfield, well, i didn't see anywhere on the playfield that looked like a place it would go. I think you just got a hombrew fix there.
 
Thanks, that's kind of what I thought. The little wall was pushed out of the way for this thing, as you can see. Not sure if it's common to have the ball get over the wall, and the previous owners thought this thing would be better or what. I guess I'll try the little wall, as it was meant to be.
 
Holy crap! That thing is screaming for some Novus and a nice wax! I just went through that with one of these. Do your self a huge favor, wax that thing now before you put all the crap back on it, you will be so glad you did. I see you could use a nice cliffy protector for the neutral zone as well. The one for the shooter is nice too.

Good luck!
 
Holy crap! That thing is screaming for some Novus and a nice wax! I just went through that with one of these. Do your self a huge favor, wax that thing now before you put all the crap back on it, you will be so glad you did. I see you could use a nice cliffy protector for the neutral zone as well. The one for the shooter is nice too.

Good luck!

Nevus, Nevus, Nevus...please, just a little bit of credit here, buddy! :) Those were obviously pre-teardown pics. I used them because they were the only ones I had with the weird homebrew ball blocker thingy in it.

Now, to redeem myself a little bit, a pic of it as it is now, in the middle of rebuilding it:

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I think I did 2 or 3 rubdowns of Novus with the drill and pad, and then I used Kit car wax.

Please note that the Neutral Zone Cliffy is installed. :) I'll throw some pics up of the catapult Cliffy installed later, but I will say it does look mighty sharp!

I think I'm just going to replace that upper flipper bat, unless anyone has any tips for getting old rubber gunk off of them....

Been busy with other stuff, but hopefully I'll get it done in the next few days here. :D

There are some really good pics of a STTNG PF teardown here..
http://www.robertwinter.com/pinball/restorations/sttng/teardown/index.html
I used them when I had to put mine back together and realized that out of the 200+ pics I took, I somehow missed a couple of key spots!
I'd look at mine for ya, but mine is not mine anymore!

cheers
/Tim

Thanks a bunch, Tim! Yeah, ran into the same problem. It's like you have to take a billion photos from every conceivable angle, and at each stage of the tear down to get it all. I also did a search on RGP for some STTNG teardown pics. The key is finding the right verbage. I think I searched for STTNG "disassembly" or "re-assembly." It did produce some hits, but after the first two pages of following dead links, I gave up. :p
 

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STTNG is a really cool game... It was with heavy heart that I sold mine...
Anyway, I replaced the flipper bats with white new white ones from pinballlife and put blue rubbers on them (cause I liked it).
cheers
/Tim
 
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