Just got one of these yesterday and the hand mech kind of squeals as it goes. Is this normal?

Yep! I ordered new X and Y nuts.

Anyone have any good suggestions for LED layouts? I don't usually use kits for my machines but I'm thinking about it this time to save some brain power.

Or without a kit, which ones do you recommend? Cointaker? Comet? Pinball Life?

I have a bunch of LEDs from old purchases but I think I need to go brighter on some of my machines. Would love to see what Johnny owners recommend!

Also, how hard is it to find the alternate translite?

On my machine behind the hand motor, there are two 2 pin connectors. One of them has broken, but it doesn’t seem to affect anything that I can tell. Does anyone know what this connector might be for?

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Yep we do. We're going to rebuild the connector anyways, but it seemed weird that everything seemed to work without it.

Also have a problem with the ball getting stuck between the left slingshot and post, right above where the ramp comes down. Guess is that the rubber the previous owner used is too large on the slingshot. We're gonna strip the whole thing down and clean it up anyways, so this'll probably resolve itself.

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Does anyone know what this part is called? We are rebuilding the hand motor assembly and this thing looks kinda hacky.

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I just bought the new slingshot plastics from pinball.center. Luckily my best friend is living in Germany, so I just had them mail them to him and he is forwarding them on to me. But yeah, not easy to find slingshot plastics for this machine. I'll let you know the quality of them when I get them.

My translite is scratched to hell though and I don't know where to find a new one.