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Bally - 1992
Creature From The Black Lagoon (CFTBL)
Creature "Tail Light Mod"
The Creature "Tail Light Mod" is a mod that is designed in Australia by a CFTBL owner for all the other
CFTBL owners around the world that love their game and want to capture that classic 50's / 60's feeling of
classic car rear tail light while still functional - synced with 2 playfield features - "Parking Ok" & "Move Your
Car". This mod is also a relative simple one to install (no soldering if buying the full kit or parts kit), looks cool
and suits the era.
Proudly Designed by
manual V-05
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of
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(5-10-22)

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  • Page 1 Creature “Tail Light Mod” The Creature “Tail Light Mod” is a mod that is designed in Australia by a CFTBL owner for all the other CFTBL owners around the world that love their game and want to capture that classic 50’s / 60’s feeling of classic car rear tail light while still functional - synced with 2 playfield features - “Parking Ok”...
  • Page 2 - in Silver (beautiful but expensive). The design has recently been tweaked a little to allow a now full plastic bumper to be used without any distortion. Swinks Pinball is only making 5 kits available for purchase (not feasible to make these constantly as a bit of work in painting), but with the help of this manual you can also do a kit build yourself or pick up a kit if they are still available.
  • Page 3 3. Electronic Store 1 x Red 5mm led - (1.7v) 1 x White 5mm led - (3.2v) 1 x 220R resistor (used with the Red LED) 1 x 150R resistor (used with the White LED) 180mm of heat tubing - 2.5 mm Black (cut 4 x 25mm, 2 x 40mm) 180mm of heat tubing - 5 mm Black (cut 1 x 180mm) 60mm of heat tubing - 5m Red (cut 2 x 30mm) 4.
  • Page 4 Step 1 - Prepping Your Shapeways Parts • The Body Panel could do with a clear coat to shine it up but is not required - as the one in the photo on the front page is a raw printed part as is the standard finish for this part from Shapeways.
  • Page 5 Step 2 - Making the Lighting / Wiring Harness • Fit the 36” wires to the twist socket wires. • Cut the plug off the non used side of the 36” wire. • Cut 2 pieces of 5mm red heat shrink about 30mm long and feed a piece to each end of one cable only and shrink to the cable about 130mm from each end (twist matrix plug end) and about 50mm on the LED end.
  • Page 6 • Cut 1 piece of black 5mm heat shrink 200mm and feed over both cables now as later on you will not be able to do this. • Cut 2 piece of 40mm long 2.5mm black heat shrink to cover the resistor once installed. •...
  • Page 7 • Take 2 pieces of heat shrink and install over the wires before soldering the LED to the cable. • Start first by installing the red LED since the red heat shrink has been applied to the cables, take note of the longer LED hard wire as this is the + / Positive side in which the red wire needs to be soldered to this LED leg.
  • Page 8 • Then trim the - / negative side leg of the LED down to 12mm long and then solder the black wire to the - / negative led of the led. Then heat up the heat shrink roughly 4mm before the back of the LED body for both wires.
  • Page 9 • Now heat the heat shrink so the resistor and wire is protected and nothing can earth out / short the wire. • Repeat the process for the other 2 core wire, white LED and 150R Resistor. manual V-05 (5-10-22)
  • Page 10 • Now install the Red LED into the top slot of the tail light lens and the white LED into the bottom cone shaped section. The 3mm exposed LED leads slide into the groves of the resin part and then carefully rotate 90 degrees to lock the led into the lens. Do this for both LED’s. manual V-05 (5-10-22)
  • Page 11 Step 3 - Fitting the Lens (with LEDs) to the Painted Bumper • This is slightly tricky so take your time. Align the cone part of the lens to the bottom section of the Bumper but with the Lens at an angle roughly 45-90 degrees and push lightly into place (do not be forceful as the lens may crack).
  • Page 12 • Now your part is ready to be installed but first lets do a pre-assembly check. You will need to slide the body panel over the wires with the provided slot in the bottom. The space within the tail light is tight so you need to gently bend the wire and LED legs so the body panel can install into place.
  • Page 13 • Now slide the body panel fully in place and install the screw / bolt to lock the body to the bumper. The wires may restrict the close fit assembly or the lens may not be seated nicely so take your time and install.
  • Page 14 Step 4 - Assembling the Mod to the Game • There is a post in front of the targets on the left hand side - remove the screw on top of this and then locate the bumper with it’s wires if possible and re-install the screw. Our apologies for an old photo with the wires not pre-installed into the bumper.
  • Page 15 • Now lift the playfield (remove the balls of course before lifting) and locate the light board under the “Parking Ok” and the “Move your Car” insert and this is the final place to connect to. • Install a LED cable twist matrix socket with the Red Heatshrink into the “Parking Ok” socket and the white LED into the “Move Your Car”.
  • Page 16 Note: with mods and wiring supplied with the red wire to the positive leg and the resistor to the positive side - the testing phase comes down to a little bit of luck as the games polarity can vary - but at least the LED in the mod is protected with a resistor to the positive leg. A LED typically will only work one way when plugged into the board so is a 50/50 chance that it may work first go, and may need to rotate the socket and then also the LED that plugs into the Matrix socket.

  • Page 17: Return Policy

    RETURN POLICY: There is no return policy as this mod is a “do it yourself” mod from Shapeways. Refunds are not given as Shapeways is a separate entity to Swinks. PRODUCT DISCLAIMER: Please remember that this is a “MOD.” We took great effort in designing and testing our system in order to produce a high quality product, but it is not a factory original or an approved part for your pinball machine.