# JJP WOZ Top Sling Rubber Ring Replacement **Source:** Jersey Jack Pinball **Type:** video **Published:** 2018-07-10 **Duration:** 14m 23s **Beat:** Pinball **URL:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvFebRPK9ok --- ## Analysis Butch Peel from Jersey Jack Pinball demonstrates a detailed walkthrough for replacing the rubber ring on The Wizard of Oz Top Lane Slingshot without removing the entire Munchkinland playfield. The video covers tool selection, playfield positioning, plastic removal, rubber installation, and reassembly, with emphasis on proper technique to avoid damage to sensitive components like switch blades. ### Key Claims - [HIGH] The slingshot rubber can be replaced without completely removing the Munchkinland playfield by using a quicker and easier method — _Butch Peel, Jersey Jack Pinball, opening statement of video_ - [HIGH] The slingshot rubber has three posts it wraps around, with one hidden under the edge of the mini playfield — _Butch Peel describing slingshot assembly structure_ - [HIGH] The rubber breaks due to indentations created by the slingshot arm pushing against it repeatedly, eventually cutting through — _Butch Peel explaining wear pattern on rubber ring_ - [HIGH] Lock nuts should not be overtightened as the next removal could pull the entire post out — _Butch Peel providing assembly guidance for reassembly_ - [HIGH] The game featured Back Alley Creations Tornado modification installed by Matt — _Butch Peel noting custom mods on the demo machine_ ### Notable Quotes > "At first look you might think you have to completely remove the Munchkinland playfield to do this repair. However, I'm going to show you a quicker and easier way to do this in this video." > — **Butch Peel**, Opening > _Sets expectation for accessible repair method as main value proposition_ > "Something shallow, something with a wide base, I set it on a playfield where it won't move around and I drop my hardware in there as I go and it keeps it handy for me." > — **Butch Peel**, Tool preparation section > _Pro tip for hardware organization during pinball repairs_ > "The switch blades are called blades for a reason, they're very sharp. So be careful that." > — **Butch Peel**, Rubber installation section > _Safety warning about sharp switch components_ > "I don't want to over tighten these down because if I do the next time I go to loosen them I may take the whole post out with me." > — **Butch Peel**, Reassembly section > _Critical technical guidance for proper reassembly technique_ ### Entities | Name | Type | Context | |------|------|---------| | Butch Peel | person | Jersey Jack Pinball technician/educator, presenting technical repair walkthrough | | Jersey Jack Pinball | company | Pinball manufacturer, producing official technical support content | | The Wizard of Oz | game | Jersey Jack Pinball title being serviced in the demonstration | | Matt | person | Owner/modifier of the demo machine, installed Back Alley Creations mods | | Back Alley Creations | company | Custom pinball modification company, provided Tornado mod for demo machine | ### Topics - **Primary:** Technical repair and maintenance, JJP customer support and education, The Wizard of Oz (JJP machine), Tool selection and proper technique - **Secondary:** Pinball aftermarket modifications ### Sentiment **Positive** (0.85) — Informative, professional tone with emphasis on accessibility and proper technique. Supportive shout-out to custom modifier. No criticism or negative sentiment. ### Signals - **[community_signal]** Jersey Jack Pinball producing detailed technical support video demonstrating commitment to operator and owner education for machine maintenance (confidence: high) — Comprehensive walkthrough video from JJP official channel covering specific repair procedure with professional presentation - **[product_concern]** Slingshot rubber wear pattern indicates design stress point where slingshot arm creates repeated indentations leading to eventual failure (confidence: medium) — Butch Peel's explanation of wear mechanism: 'indentations in here eventually cuts through and causes that to break' --- ## Transcript Hey, pinball fans. Butch Peel with Jersey Jack Pinball. Today I'm going to show you how to replace the rubber ring on the Wizard of Oz Top Lane Slingshot. Now, at first look you might think you have to completely remove the Munchkinland playfield to do this repair. However, I'm going to show you a quicker and easier way to do this in this video. So, let's get the glass off this game power it down and get to work. The tools I'll be using for this minor repair. I have a telescopic magnetic tool so I can reach under into tight places and grab hardware nuts and bolts and screws and things like that. I have a long shank number two Phillips screwdriver that we can use for a lot of the different screws in the game. The long shank allows me to reach down into a hole you'll see why that's important a little later. Same thing with my quarter inch driver here it's a long shank quarter inch magnetic nut driver very handy tool also allows me to reach into long deep holes and things like that get to screws i'm going to use just a normal 11 30 seconds nut driver not a magnetic one just because the magnetic insert sometimes makes it a little difficult to get to nuts and and such and i found that to be the case in this in this particular repair and the last thing i've got is a magnetizer for my screwdriver You can buy magnetic screwdrivers, but I just generally get the regular screwdriver, and then you can magnetize them by putting a screwdriver shank through the hole in the magnet, rub it in there a few times, and it makes it where it picks up and holds hardware very easily. So that's very handy. One of the things I like to do with my hardware is put them in a small container while I'm working on a game. Things that I remove, I want to be able to just drop into a container. I'm going to use a really wide-based, shallow kind of container. I don't want something I have to try and reach down really far into, and I don't want something that's got a small base that will tip over easy and dump my screws on the playfield. So something shallow, something with a wide base, I set it on a playfield where it won't move around and I drop my hardware in there as I go and it keeps it handy for me. Just have to remember if I move my playfield around to get that off of the playfield otherwise I dump my screws somewhere and that's not good. To work on this game I'm going to pull the playfield up and out of the cabinet like so and rest it on the first set of rubber feet inside the lock down bar channel. What that playfield position is going to do for me is allow easier access to the upper part of the playfield where the slingshot that we're going to be working on resides. The rubber feet underneath will hold the playfield firmly in place as I work on things above. Okay, so the slingshot rubber we're looking to replace is underneath this plastic at the top of the playfield, just above the munchkin line playfield. So you can see that there's two posts here and the third post is back up under here and the slingshot rubber goes around all three of those. it breaks it's likely to fly back inside so you'll need to find the old rubber and pull it out somewhere in this process. This game has the Back Alley Creations Tornado and other mods. Big shout out to Matt if you're out there watching. This tornado is kind of in the area where I want to work so I'm going to remove that first. So I'm going to use my Phillips screwdriver and my magnetizer here Make sure that my screwdriver has good magnetism and I going to take off the two screws that hold the tornado in place and that why we use the magnetizer so that we can keep our screws from falling into the play field So I remove that and now I have much better access to the hole that I'm going to be working in. So the first thing I'm going to need to do is remove this this plastic and get it out of my way. Here's a little close up of the two nuts that I'm going to need to remove. The first one that's up under the lip of the ramp a little bit and then the second one over here on the edge. So those two come out and then that plastic will come off. So I'm going to use a 11-30 seconds nut driver and I'm going to kind of gently push this aside. I don't want to pull this completely off or anything so I'm just going to push it aside until I can get my nut driver in place there. I'm going to loosen it until I can tell it's at the end of its run. Then I'm going to make sure I don't lose it again by getting my magnet here and twisting it that last little bit so that I take it out with my magnet. The other one is a little bit more tricky to get to. I have to kind of go on an angle, which this is not really made to do. Sometimes that can be very tight and hard to get started. So what I might use to break that loose would be one of these 11-30 seconds wrenches. So I'm going to put the round end on here, put it on the screw there, and I'm going to break it loose with just a couple of twists here, just to make sure that it's not going to be difficult for me to get started with my nut driver. I'm going to go back to my nut driver, I'm going to go on this angle here, I'm going apply medium kind of pressure here turning this slowly slowly when it starts to skip I take a pressure off I don't want to mess up the end of the the nut because the nut is really made to be driven straight in and I'm kind of cheating here by coming on angle it's a nylon lock nut so it has this this locking mechanism at the top which is a piece of nylon so I can tell when it starts turning really easy that I'm at the end of that so then again I get my magnet and I bring it over here and I make the final couple of turns with my finger so that I can bring it off with my magnet again now I can lift this playfield plastic off and pull it completely out of the game and set it aside and there is our slingshot rubber the slingshot rubber is not broken on this game it actually is just going to be replaced by a nice silicone one but you can tell by the markings on this if I zoom in a little bit here you can see on the rubber itself where it's likely to break and that's where this slingshot arm is pushing out on it all the time it makes indentations in here eventually cuts through and causes that to break so if my slingshot rubber were broken this would be more of what I didn't see I'd see the two switches here I want to be careful not to catch on those and bend those. They're very sensitive. But yeah, I wouldn't see any any rubber going around here. The third post you can't see it's back up under here. So here's the first two posts that were exposed for the slingshot and the third one is actually up underneath the edge of the playfield there. You can see it kind of in the center of the picture with the ring around it still So in order to be able to get a new rubber over the top of this post that concealed under the edge of this mini playfield I going to need to loosen the playfield a little bit I not going to take it off completely I don need to do that I just need a little clearance underneath it so I can slide that rubber up over the top of the post and get it into place. So in order to do that, I need to loosen two screws at this edge of the playfield that will give me that amount of play. Here's a quick close-up of one of the two screws that I'm going to be loosening. and here's the second screw over on the opposite side of the house. So the first one, the house in its normal position where it sits where the legs kick out and all, you can pretty well see the first screw there. It's down in this hole and I can use either a long handled phillips screwdriver or a long shank quarter inch driver in order to loosen that screw. Again, I'm not removing it, I'm just loosening it. So I'm going to get down in here. I'm going to take it loose about four turns. Then I'm going to spin the house clockwise until I can see the other screw really well, which is right there. And now John Youssi it down in the hole there. I'm going to use the nut driver again to loosen it four good turns. Now I can lift the front edge of this play filled up and that will give me enough room to get that rubber over the top of this post. Okay so we're ready to install our new rubber ring in this case a silicone ring. I'm going to put it on those three posts underneath there. Now the the post itself has an indentation in it. It's got a place for the rubber ring to sit properly. When I put it over the top of a post I don't want it above. I don't want it below that indentation. I want it to be right there inside that indentation on all three posts. So I got to make sure I do that. The other thing I want to make sure I do is get this switch inside the rubber ring. I don't want the switch blade sticking outside the rubber ring when I put it on there. So the first post I want to get this rubber ring on is the one that's hidden back here. It's the most difficult. So I want to make sure I get it on there first. If I feel up under there, I can feel the top of the post. I also feel that this flat rail here has a screw that's right next to it, which is going to make things a little more difficult, but not too bad. So what I want to do is lift the play field up, hold it up under there, and then I'm going to start pushing the rubber ring with the end of my finger here over the top of that post down there and I'm going to get around the side a little where I can see a little better if I don't have quite enough clearance here I can take those two screws loose just a little bit more maybe a couple more turns just to make it easier but as I push this on top of there once I clear that top of that post now I've got it on the most difficult one I'm just going to stretch it around I'm going to put a inside that indentation and I'm going to stretch it all the way over this one and get it in its indentation. Then I'm going to kind of pull on it a little bit, make sure it's kind of evenly spaced so it's not really tight between here and then really loose in there. So there's the rubber ring in place. Be careful as you're putting that in there that you don't cut your fingers on those switch blades that are sticking up there. They're called blades for a reason, they're very sharp. So be careful that. Make sure your rubber ring is riding in all three of the post indentations where it's supposed to be. The switch blades are inside the rubber ring That good Nothing making contact here Might not be a bad idea at this point to test your slingshot in your game diagnostics mode just to make sure that none of the switches got pushed closed to where they're making full contact and then they'll just want to kick a ricochet over and over again. You want to make sure that the switches activate and and then open when the slingshot goes back to its normal position. Okay, once I've verified that my slingshot's working right, the switches are doing good, I can go ahead and start putting things back together again. So the first thing I want to do is put the plastic back on top of the sling rubber there. So I'm just going to reach inside here. I'm going to put that over the top of the two studs sticking up. I'm going to put the nuts back in place now. So I'm going to reach under here and I'm going to start the nut with my fingers. Kind of like a dexterity exercise, but put it on top of there and keep twisting it until you feel the threads engage. Now the second one, I can also use my magnet to kind of help me do this. put it on a flat edge put the nut on top of here bring the nut flat start twisting it until the threads engage then take the magnet away get my 11 30 seconds nut driver again I don't want to over tighten these down because if I do the next time I go to unloosen them I may take the whole post out with me. So I get it down to where it makes contact and I snug it good. These are lock nuts so they're not going to back off. So I'm going to keep working this one on the angle like that until I feel it down making contact and just a little bit more tight and there we are. Good to go. Next up I'm going to re-tighten the screws around the house. So I'm going to tighten this guy all the way down and as I get to the bottom of this I'll feel it get kind of like ratchety and that's because the underside of the screw has serrated edges on it so to help it kind of lock in place so I want to turn it until it makes contact there and then make it good and strong there I'm going to turn the house clockwise again to expose this other screw and I'm going to put it down all the way again when I feel it start ratcheting a little bit I'm going to tighten it good and firmly. Okay, the house will settle itself when you turn the power on the next time, so not a big deal there. Worry about where you leave it. Okay, the last thing I'm going to do is put my tornado back on. Get my screws out here. These I want to go put them in backwards, twist backwards until I feel them click and then put them in forward so I don't strip the holes out in the plastic because that's very easy to do so again I'm taking my screw I'm gonna twist it backwards until it clicks and then go back forward and then just snug those down good and there we are all finished newly rubber installed and ready to go piece of cake We'll see you next time. _(Acquisition: youtube_groq_whisper, Enrichment: v3)_ --- *Exported from Journalist Tool on 2026-04-13 | Item ID: c7c4ebac-07be-4012-9d40-83c4476b1b2b*