After 30 years of wanting to work on a pinball machine, I finally got a Gottlieb King Kool last week from Facebook marketplace.
The machine is in good shape and basically worked after I fixed the short in the reset circuit. I have a question about the placement of the posts and the o-ring surrounding the center target (see pic). The way the o-ring goes around the 5 posts means you have to remove the posts for the spinners to replace the o-ring. That seems a bit 'weird' from a maintenance standpoint. I noticed that one of the posts was replaced with the base of a xmas tree light and that might be the reason it is done this way.
Should the o-ring be on the inside (currently on the outside) of the posts that support the spinners?
Does anyone have a picture of the official configuration?
What is a good place to find a replacement post?
--Nico
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