Bleaching rubber rings

EDIT: woops did not read your post carefully enough.

That is lame you got yellowed rings. Seems they might be NOS. I got a set like that years back. Just ordered new sets for my pins and the seller made it clear they were not NOS and were brand new happ rubbers. The difference between them and some I did not use from my first of NOS rings is night and day.

Not sure if bleach would help whiten them. Also seems it could hurt the rubber.
 
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It seems like getting the biggest rubbers in a nice, bright white is a little challenging. If I'm ordering a ring that's over 3 inches, typically I'll grab 4-5 of them and I'll install the whitest I can find.
 
Most of the rings are nice and white. The 4.5 inchers are the 'slightly' yellowish ones.

I did call the guy I bought them from and he said he can't find newnewnew rings in that size because they don't make them that large anymore. I also asked him if I bleach them, and they screw up will he send me some new rings and he said ok.
 
Most of the rings are nice and white. The 4.5 inchers are the 'slightly' yellowish ones.

I did call the guy I bought them from and he said he can't find newnewnew rings in that size because they don't make them that large anymore. I also asked him if I bleach them, and they screw up will he send me some new rings and he said ok.

what rings do you speak of camperjohn? The slingshot rings? The rebound rubber only has 1 ring but my kit sent 2 4" rings and there was only 1 ring for rebound and played the machine for a year with 1 rebound ring, but the guys at actionpinball tell me they sent 2 because 2 go where the rebound rubber is, when I took off the old rebound ring there was just 1 ring so I replaced just 1 ring. Mine were White, not yellow.
 
what rings do you speak of camperjohn? The slingshot rings? The rebound rubber only has 1 ring but my kit sent 2 4" rings and there was only 1 ring for rebound and played the machine for a year with 1 rebound ring, but the guys at actionpinball tell me they sent 2 because 2 go where the rebound rubber is, when I took off the old rebound ring there was just 1 ring so I replaced just 1 ring. Mine were White, not yellow.

Years ago the manufacturer and Operators figured out that putting 2 Rings on the rebound would stop the ball from climbing under and getting trapped creating a service call for the Operator. For Home Use just putting on the one will give it more action, if the ball goes under the rubber you have the ability to just open it up and retrieve it, for a Operator it may have been a long drive just to get it out. Also 2 rubbers caused the screws that hold it to strip out where 1 will not do that as much.
 
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