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Lowering the entirety of a pinball playfield

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Well Fed Games:
I'm looking for a busted pin to retheme, and thus have come up with a possibly stupid question:

Is it generally possible (and how much work would it be) to lower a pinball playfield a bit away from the glass to make room for added features and toys (nothing gaudy, I promise)? Obviously later pins often have all sorts of room but the early 80s williams stuff I am looking at don't have much room to spare. Sadly I don't have much hands-on time with pinball internals yet.

Le Chuck:
Shouldn't be much more than an afternoon's worth of assache I figure.  Remove PF entirely, move rear mounting points down several inches, mount a lower front bracket or fab up longer hooks to grab the original bracket.  I know on most of the 70s and 80s pins I've had there is room to drop it down, never tried anything like that tho.  Might run into other issues, button placement, wiring extensions to go from PF to back box etc. 

pbj:
Good luck finding a busted, complete pin to retheme.  I've thrown in the towel more than once.

Well Fed Games:
Le Chuck- thanks for the thoughts. Good to know it is not a crazy idea at least.

PBJ- at this point I am considering retheming a Williams Flash, which might give me the best chance of finding one used and people won't get too offended if I hack one up. Of course I passed on some cheap ($150ish) nonworking Flash cabs about this time last year at an auction.

Unfortunately, everything pinball is irrationally expensive in the Chicago area (maybe everywhere, but Craigslist is particularly useless here when it comes to pins). It makes me just want to get a custom CNC cut playfield, which would be a lot of fun, but I know I will knock years off the project if I give myself a starting point.

pbj:
$150 cash in hand 24/7 for a complete Flash for 15 years.   :-\

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