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Browse through all of the parts supplier's sites to get familiar with what's available, you'll need a lot more parts as you start to go over your pin.

I use weather stripping for all my machines.They come in different softness and colours and last as long as the expensive commercial ones. I buy it in rolls of 10 mm x 20 mm for a couple of $$$ and cut it to size.

http://www.pinrestore.com/Supplies.html

About 2/3 of the way down the page. It's just foam weatherstripping but works well...and it's cheap.

High density weather stripping works best.

You can get the 3/16 gray weatherstrip at home depot.Its the same stuff they put on new switches.You just have to cut it to size

+1 for the gray weatherstripping. I use it on all of mine.

How is the weatherstripping for impact absorption? Is it better or worse than the original stuff? Does it depend on it being open-cell or closed-cell? Thickness as it relates to cushioning?

I ask because I replaced both the slot and clock targets on my TZ and I still get some serious air-time on balls, especially to the slot target. Half the time if I hit that slot target just right, the ball will rebound and fly right above the right flipper for an insta-drain. Not fun when you've got a great game going...

Is your target bent back like most of the originals tend to be, or are you using the re-enforced target?

Sorry, yes, I should have qualified that. They are BOTH the reinforced versions.

There is definitely a noticeable thud, both heard and felt, when those targets are hit. They're holding up just fine, I'm just afraid that the target is going so far back when it's struck that it's hitting the angled piece behind it, resulting in the angle of deflection that produces the air ball.

For whatever reason, someone saw fit to make that piece behind the target angle towards the target face instead of away(like Capcom targets). Doing that, they probably realized that when the target gets hit in full and flushes up to that angled piece, the target would twist(because of the one side being taller than the other) and always rebound the ball to the left. Well, they then must have seen this as no good and decided to sand down that one side at an angle to alleviate that and not lose all the reinforcement properties of that piece. But in doing so, they left enough meat on there at an angle, that when the ball hits it in full and the target flushes up against the backing, it rebounds the ball in an upward, airborne direction.

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