Hey pinheads!!

While disassembling my Bally Eight Ball Deluxe (1984) for a shop job, I found that the three “Rail Post” guides (I’ve heard them called different things) seen in the graphic linked below are dingy/ugly and either cracked or broken completely.

https://www.marcospecialties.com//images/products/C-907/additional4/detail.jpg

It looks like the last owner may have tightened down the screws a little beyond “snug” when it was last put back together. Everything else on this EBD looks amazing, so I’d like to tweak the last few ugly bits before listing her.

As previously discussed in this older thread…
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/eight-ball-deluxe-white-post-for-top-arch
..I did verify that the parts are identified as:


RAIL POST (Nylon) Part # C-907 + RAIL POST CAP (Nylon) Part # C-908
https://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/C-907

I was a little surprised to see that none of the common parts dealers (Marco, PBL, Action, Pinball Resource, etc) seemed to have any of these in stock, so, feeling like I had no other option...I went about recreating the post itself in Sketchup and 3D printing my own prototype for the post’s lower body, which I’m somewhat happy with:

bally_guiderailpost_model (resized).jpg

Of course, it’s not perfect (yet) — could use some smoothing based on the “sides” of the two circles, and the final print will either be in white or a blue to match the rest of the posts in EBD.

But, I’m having more trouble recreating the Rail Post Cap. I’m sure I’ll get it to where I’m happy with it, and it might work perfectly well, but I thought I’d bring it up again here in the Forums to just see if anyone has some spares to part with or knows of someone else who might have gone through all of this trouble already and maybe has repro’d the same parts.

Why reinvent the wheel, ya know?

I know that in the aforementioned thread, the user tdiddy was credited for coming up with some extra posts for another user. Maybe Tom or any other user out there is still holding onto a few originals?

Thanks for reading,
KR

Bumpity bump bump...??