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AlienInferno:
This is the closest thing I've found. It's a Williams Kick a Poo. Same style of machine.

lamprey:
Thanks for the video. I didn't realize how much space those take up! But, a cool machine non the less!

AlienInferno:

--- Quote from: lamprey on May 02, 2014, 12:50:29 pm ---Thanks for the video. I didn't realize how much space those take up! But, a cool machine non the less!

--- End quote ---

Yeah I have yet to officially measure it but the original flyer says it is 8 and a half feet long.

AlienInferno:
Allright so after letting this sit for over a year it is time to get this restore underway and finished. Why because I am in the process of getting a house build and want this finished when it's ready to move in AND as of a week ago I found out my wife is pregnant...so yeah. Serious yeah. I'm excited. But I figure I better finish this while I have a bit of money and time to spare.

I've put about 10 hours of time into this over the last three weeks. Would have put in more but there was quite a bit of rain during that time and do all my work outside. So far all I've done is dismantle the "playfield" portion into the two pieces (top and bottom), remove all screws, brackets, bolts, wires, switches, sockets, etc, sand the lower section of it down inside and out, and fill some of the dents/dings/scratches with bondo, sand everything again, and reglue a few loose pieces of wood. I've just about got that section ready for primer then I will proceed with the other part. Want to have everything ready for primer so I can do it all at the same time.

Most of the pictures I took where to help me reassemble but here are a couple.

AlienInferno:
I had made plans to work long and hard on this this weekend but there is a pretty good chance of rain so I don't know if I will be able to or not. It rained enough today to keep me from pulling it out of the garage. Not about to get this bare wood wet. So I'm working on what I can.

And that is the rubberized puck catch (part no. 238-6469 in the 1969 Williams parts manual for the Williams Kick-A-Poo).

As you can tell from the scanned image (borrowed from planetary pinball), the one I have is in bad shape. The right finger is broke off, the rubberized coating has been pulled off, and it's bent out of shape as someone had to "fix it" so that the puck wouldn't fall off due to the missing finger. This did catch the puck as it returned to the front but it made it extremely difficult to remove the puck.

My fix is to make a new one. I went to the big orange box store and picked up a small piece of 16 gauge steel sheet. Came home and made a paper template out of some cardstock. I did this for the most part by tracing what I could of the part and then working of measurements for everything else. It might not be perfect but it's very close when I hold the paper version up to the real one.

Tomorrow I am going to trace the templates onto the sheet metal and cut it out with a jigsaw. My plan is to use a grinder to get it as close to the line as possible and smooth out the worst of the jagged edges then use a file and sandpaper to finish off the edges. Once all that is done the two pieces are getting clamped and glued using JB Weld and then coated in that rubberized grip stuff that most big box stores carry now. Should turn out nicely.

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