Great looking!

Great job! Where did you get all of the graphics? I've never seen anyone offering graphics for these machines before.

Great job!

I'm looking to buy one of these if anyone's selling

Sweet!!!

I just restored one myself and have a couple questions you might be able to answer.

What are the “mountain valley upright hangers had become detached from the top cover” you refer to?

I found an extra part inside my machine. Any idea if it is a part of PP, or just some rare part someone probably pulled their hair out looking for? Or a miniature sculpture of Munch’s ‘The Scream’?

Before and after photos. I decided to return her to original colors, even though I liked the white and blue.

Best,
Mike

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I don't know what part that is, but nice Pro Basketball

I should update that I managed to find TWO somewhat locally. Between the two my friend assembled a fully working one, and then managed to make the second one work properly by improvising around the missing bits.
Super fun machine.

Finished mine went with raw coated metal and red to match the front plate. Also rigged the coin pusher for free play.

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looks great! But are you missing the playfield wires?

cait001 Yeah I took them off I didn't really see the need. What is your stance on the wires?

Whoah! Here I am in the middle stages of doing a resto on mine, and I stumble across this and 2 other older threads, hopefully just in time. I've been lugging mine around for several decades, after having been given the game (as a kid) by an arcade owner who had long previously retired it from active duty. As a kid, I jiggered the mechanism to bypass the coin op, but now can't find what I did that disabled the ball support plate return at the end of the coin op cycle. Spring is missing somewhere, but I can't find any holes or tabs suggesting the spring location. I'm also mid-disassembly, but can't figure how to remove the cross-shaft clips that hold the arms that actuate those ball support plates. Any assistance on either issue much welcome! Used @Oldgoat's evapo-rust to great advantage, @wayner's ball support slide photos helped properly locate another spring, and I think the finish line is in sight if I can avoid busting that cross shaft or clips during final disassembly! BTW, I'm not sure of the wire question, mine has none, don't see a place for them, and no one (but me) has touched that part of this one in about 70 years. Yes, I'm that old. 8-P

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huh. never got notice of your reply. Thank you! I was thinking the same about that funny split clip, I'll give it a try.

Biggest problem is that the ball support plates retract fine, but do not return. A spring missing somewhere but I can't find any spring attach holes or evidence of where it should be. Vague memory from 70 years ago says maybe the spring was on the opposite side of that cross-shaft, over where the gum dispenser trip is, but??

Careful observation now reveals the answer to 2 of my mysteries) The split clip is removed by slightly pinching the split end with pliers, then tapping with small hammer or the end of a screwdriver. the close observation in this case reveals that the clip is NOT centered on the cross shaft, it is offset to one side, so there is just a notch in the shaft on one side, and pinching the split end releases some of the pressure so it can be tapped out. This allows disassembly of the multiple levers that actuate the slide plates on one side, and the gum dispenser on the other.
2) There is a design flaw in early models like mine which results in the slide plates not returning. There is a bent lever on the main arm (the one that hooks into the coin slide), and on mine, that lever is broken off. On Wayner's version, the bent lever is replaced with a much thicker angled lever that is riveted onto the main arm. See photo that reveals the stump of my broken-off lever and factory fix from his resto. Obviously this was found to be a weak spot, as the new lever is easily 3x thicker than the original. Elsewhere I saw a fix using just a long machine screw instead.

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