Store it flat on it back. Preferably under your bed, under the couch, or under a machine. You can put the brown paper it came in back on it to protect it from dust, but don't wrap it up tight. Just kinda gently lay it on top, so that the solvents can evaporate off and the clear can chemically cross-link.

Take this with a grain of salt, but here's my input:

I like the kit from PBR the best. But their flipper bushing are 1/16" too short, and causes the flipper to *almost* drag on the pf. With a little bit of bushing wear, it would be touching the pf--not good! So I use the bushings from Pinball Life. This issue has been on multiple kits from PBR.

I've not had good luck with the full kit from Pinball Life. There always seems to be some odd sort of binding occurring. I've narrowed it down to the coil stops, but just can't figure out what's different about them.

I haven't used a kit from Marco in while, but the last one I bought worked fine, IIRC.

Has anyone tried the set of clear plastics from Playfield Protectors? Do they exhibit the same issues?

https://www.playfield-protectors.com/Home/Details/k-P8fMH7BUyaJZcTYDBoow?categoryid=24&category=-&name=Eight%20Ball%20Deluxe%20%7C%201981

Yeah, the best way is to buy them with a pf protector (for a different game). But I think I've seen them on epay every now-and-then.

Welp, I joined the club 2x now. My first one is a project. My second one is a complete basket case.

It looks like someone was doing a half-assed restore, and got distracted in the middle of it. Seems it was destined for a hard top.

Cabinet has been sanded. Most stuff appears to be in place internally.
PF has been stripped of all topside parts. Bottom side parts are just hanging there. PF sanded down.
Interior of head has been gutted, including the wire harness

The bad part of all of this is none of the stripped parts came along with the machine, so I'm going to be searching for lots of stuff.

If you have any spare parts, please let me know.

Here's the basket case:

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I believe this is it:

S-739-229 Link Pin

https://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/S-739-229

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They look to be the same part (except the -10 is a changeable direction). You're not going to find jus the spring steel. But the -10. If for some reason it doesn't work, you can just take the spring steel from the -10 and put it in your -12.