Morning all

I was fortunate enough to pick up two of these games in really nice shape from an op I've been dealing with for years. They are pretty big and very rare from what I understand. Now I need a few parts to get them completely working, specifically the belts or a suitable replacement for them. Other than that they seem to be completely working, other than the belt and going through the motors in the back which shoot out the balls.

Anyone have any history/sources for parts for these games?

They also had the manuals so I'll be uploading those to IPDB to help others.

Thanks!

These are the best source pages I saw when doing a search on them:

http://ipdb.org/search.pl?any=big+bat&search=Search+Database&searchtype=quick#4768

http://www.wallgames.com/Big_Bat/Index.htm

This is a picture of what one of them look like.

The two I have are complete.

big_bat.jpg

The urethane belt is the main item I need. Thanks for the link!

Looks like the urethane belt source should work fine, the only other item I need is the urethane ball pitch roller rubber - mine were literally melted and looked like milk spilled on the gears. So I'll need to do some clean up there and just source that part. Everything else looks good, but I'm sure there could be other issues.

These games kind a fall into the (are they really worth it) fixing up category, but they are simply in too good of shape to part or just let fall by the wayside. Call me a hoarder I guess.

I think I found a source for the pitch rollers as well, just would need to cut them to fit:

http://www.urethanespecialties.com/urethanetubes.html

No worries CactusJack, I'll be working on this over the fall/winter and will update the thread based on what I find for the replacement parts. Once I get them precise, I'll be happy to make a few extras up and ship them to you for the cost of shipping and a minor amount for the cost of the material (which should be really cheap)

Although these games seem as big as a damn boat anchor, we need to keep em working

I also just ordered the replacement belts at a 44 inch length as suggested, hopefully that works out too.

I'll be ordering the material that I will be cutting down to fit for this game, only problem being that this material is pretty expensive (over $60 for a 24" piece). If anyone wants some for their big bat, figure on about $10 for a pair shipped in the USA......PM me if interested.

Will be ordering by the end of the week.

Tubes ordered so I should have them in a week or so.

Testing and restoration should start by early July so I should have the tubes available by Mid July I'm guessing.

Tubes came in the mail yesterday. I ordered two different tubes for hardness to see which one works better. My intention is to work on the machines next week and test them out. I know I told a few of you that the cost per set was going to be about $10 per set shipped, It will actually be $12 per set shipped as I didn't account for the shipping in the cost. Still reasonable I think.

Prior to me requesting any money, I'm going to thoroughly test the tubes to see which one works best (the softer one or the harder one).

Not that alot of people have these games, but it would be nice to have some clarity for us that do and how to fix them moving forward.

Will update after testing and contact all interested parties after that.

I started digging into the games today. Amazingly both games seem to function electronically but have some mechanical issues. I installed the new belting that I ordered from ebelting.com that works perfectly although I have a motor issue on one drive assembly so I'll have to fix that. The ball launch mechanics seem to be fine on both however I need to tweak the tubing a bit to get it to work. Not there yet but I'm guessing I'll have it figured out by the weekend, hopefully.

A little update. So I've got one of the machines pretty much fully working but still haven't figured out the urethane tube portion yet. A 1/2 inch piece in width is simply too large so I've tried it more at the 3/8 inch amount and that seems to work. Now I'm dealing with the balls getting stuck so I'm going to have to modify the diameter a bit to make it work right. Roughing it up with sandpaper helped a bit but the ball still doesn't shoot out far enough.

On a positive note the belting from ebelting.com worked perfectly.

With the help of my son, we have this game up and running now........will post the updates soon!