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I pride myself on my ability to unabashedly ask stupid questions. I decided I really really had to take the pop bumpers off so we could repaint the whole playfield, which meant unsoldering the wires to the pop bumper lights underneath the playfield. As far as I could tell, this was as far up as I could prop the playfield, which didn't allow enough room for soldering, so I asked the kind souls at rec.games.pinball for help. They pointed out that there should be a way to swing the playfield ALL the way open, so that it rested on the backbox, and sure enough, there was! By swinging the playfield halfway up, and then sliding it forward, the back corners dropped nicely into lips on the rails, and I was then able to swing it the rest of the way open. Neat!
After all this, I discovered that I couldn't get to the wires I needed to desolder to get the pop bumpers off from underneath after all, but at least I learned how to open it all the way up, which I'm sure will come in handy in the future.