Took the plunge (hehe, see what I did there!?) on the weekend and got my first EM. A 1976 Gottlieb Sure Shot. Game is in good condition. Everything is intact and working. Cabinet needs some love and a few other little things, but fine as is for the most part.

The part that isn't so amazing is that pretty much every single one of the inserts is sunken down slightly. This is a pool based theme, so those inserts are pretty easy to see and count... two inserts for each of the 15 balls in a rack.

A couple are more noticeably sunken as they will actually cause the ball to hang-up and stay there until you shake the machine back and forth to free it. Those are the two inlane ones as the ball slows down enough in that area for the little lip to stop the ball.

I am trying to figure out where the good EM threads are so I apologize for asking here, but what is the best way to go about correcting these sunken inserts? It seems like they'd be the kind you would gently heat up and then push from below with an appropriately sized socket or dowel to bring them up flush again. Is that what I'm looking to need to do? Again, thanks for the help and direction. Love the old sounds and chimes on this game!!

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WOW! Those tutorial videos are excellent! Thank you very much for posting. Exactly what I was looking for. Cheers!

Showing some love to my Sure Shot recently. 43 new plastic posts to replace the chipped and broken hodgepodge of posts that it came to me with. Also experimenting a little with LED bulb colours for the different pool balls.

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Wow, gorgeous car! What is that exactly? It looks fairly similar (at the front) to the car in the backglass for Diner . Which I had thought was a 57 Chevy Bel Air Sport. That's a bit of a guess on my part so I'm trying to get more specific. Thinking of getting a diecast to make my own topper. Love your paint job.

That game refresh looks great! Nice job.

My Sure Shot definitely had damaged posts. All of them pretty much were toast or had been replaced previously and got mismatched colours and whatnot. I put new ones in and it looks great again.