Pinbot parts help...screw post under visor. Oh, and a LOL as well..

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Pinbot parts help...screw post under visor. Oh, and a LOL as well..

Hold the "face" plastic in place and have rubber sleeves on them. Mine are approx 2" long with a female screw hole on top.

This is *almost* it, but it's a bit longer and the base is hex instead of rounded...this area takes a ton of ball hits, and I don't really want to risk using the hex posts unless I absolutely have to. I'm trying to use Cliffy's colored post sleeves over these to match the colors on the grid since they sit RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT...

http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=323&parent=69

That's the closest I can find, but not quite it...anyone got a better option? I can't find the part in the manual. The ones I have from my PF, some jackass put wood screws in the top of them and I can't get them out, they're too stripped. >=(


Now, for the LOL WTF...

So, when we went to buy it, the owner couldn't get it to work. Said it didn't power on. My wife deftly flipped the switch under the cabinet and it came roaring to life. The game wouldn't start because there was only one ball in. I held down the trough switch that was empty, everything worked, we bought it for 200$.

Fast forward three months to now. I pulled the ramp assemblies for the first time today. The plastic part over the spiral ramp is broken, no biggie, it's just a cosmetic piece, right? I'm not so sure about that now......because I found the missing ball BEHIND THE SPIRAL RAMP, wedged up against a lamp socket. I've lifted the playfield dozens of times, never once did I hear anything back there. How the hell did that happen?!
 
Anyone know for sure what will work here? I've got it temp fixed, the new sleeves went right over the screws and fit great, needed a bit of trimming though. No biggie. But when I get the repro PF and plastics, want to be able to screw them down right, not just wedge them in there....which won't even actually work since they won't be broken! :p
 
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