I just picked up a NASCAR for a friend. It is his first pin, so I am going to do a little work on it before I deliver it to him. The plastic over the accelerator magnet in the lower left apron area is melted. Does anyone know where to get that plastic or a full plastic set? Also, the checkered flag over the hot dog stand is missing. Is that just a decal, or is it a plastic? A close-up shot of what that is supposed to look like would be appreciated.

Ross

Thanks for the info FiftyQuid. If you get a chance some time, could you measure the size of the flag for me? I may try and make one. On the plastic, maybe I will get lucky and someone will part one out or something.

Thanks Grumpy. I will see what I can come up with for the flag.

I apparently bought the last decal set from Marco. It has 2 decals that appear to be for the flag (they are both marked with -36). Is there somewhere else in the game that one of these is used, or is the second one a spare?

Interestingly, I only bought the whole set to get the flag but once I compared the decals in the set to what is on the game I can see that most of what is currently installed is badly faded. I guess I will be replacing much of what is there.

For the plastic that I needed, I bought a set for Grand Prix. It turns out that the two plastics I need are the same in both sets.

Now for some play testing to figure out what I need to work on. Then I will tear the playfield down and shop it.

I am shopping a Nascar for a friend and bought a set of plastics for Grand Prix. All of the plastics I needed (including the clear ones) are the same between the two. I think Automated Services had multiple sets when I bought mine.

One of the screw tabs is broken on my NASCAR ball trough enter/exit scoop. The manual says the NASCAR enter/exit scoop is modified for this game and gives a different part number (535-7329-01-86). I cannot seem to find one available anywhere.

Does anyone know what the difference is over the standard enter/exit scoop (535-7329-01) and whether I could modify one myself to work in my NASCAR?

Alternatively, does anyone know where I can get the NASCAR version of the enter/exit scoop (Marco shows out of stock and I cannot find anyone else that has one)?

Still hoping someone can tell me what the difference is in the NASCAR enter/exit scoop over the standard Stern enter/exit scoop. I cannot find a replacement NASCAR scoop anywhere. Does anyone have a NASCAR and another Stern that they could compare the scoops to see if the difference is something that I could mod from a standard Stern scoop? I hate to have to buy a standard scoop to determine it is so different I cannot do anything with it.

The scoop has been welded in several other places by someone else already and the welds are somewhat poor (they seem to have been too hot and melted a lot of the material around the welds). The screw tab is very small and is one of the ones at the exit scoop. The break is right at the 90 degree bend where the tab attaches to the scoop. With the balls being kicked up against the scoop to eject them into the shooter lane I am concerned that a weld will fail (in addition to being very difficult to achieve in the small 90 degree area that the 2 pieces meet). I may have to do that if I cannot find another solution, but my preference would be to either get a new scoop or modify a new standard scoop.

This is a first pinball machine for a friend of mine who knows nothing about pinball and is not mechnically inclined. I am shopping it and trying to fix everything before I deliver it to him. I would like to get it as reliable as possible for him. I live in Texas and he lives in Florida, so it will not be so easy for me to stop by and take care of any problems he may have.

I have been shopping a Nascar for a friend and have it mostly back together. I was testing it and the lower magnets seem to not accelerate the ball enough every once in a while. About 2 times out of 10 the ball seems to go a little slow, but it makes it to the upper magnet to get accelerated and make the loop. About 1 time out of 10 the ball is slow enough that it doesn't make it to the upper magnet and falls back down to the drain. I have tested the optic switches (3 on the lower magnets and 2 on the upper magnet) and all the magnets in diagnostics. Everything seems to check out. Anyone have any ideas of what I might look for as the problem?

Thanks. I will take a look tonight and see if there is anything physically out of line in the ball path.