vid1900 GREAT advice on this topic! Any suggestions what I might do with the bell spacers on my recently acquired, restored EBD? A teardown for a playfield wax revealed none of them have the flanges which attach them to the new plastics. They are under enormous plastics and a NIIIIIGHTMARE to reassemble when only a post screw holds them in place (and even worse with that fresh coat of wax)! I really don't want to contaminate the pristine plastics with glue, but I don't see much of a solution the next time I have to disassemble it. Thanks for any feedback.

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Ordered from Nick earlier today, but thanks!

Nick, I received the 31 bell spacers today, but I’m a little dismayed. The spacers they were to replace had small flanges which would allow them to pop into the plastics with the aid of a soldering iron and a whole lot of caution and care. The previous owner (or someone) removed the flanges essentially making it a nightmare to reassemble the upper playfield area on my Eight Ball Deluxe. I assumed (incorrectly, it appears) that the bells I ordered from you had those flanges and would allow for this. That said, your spacers present a couple of logistical concerns. First, these new spacers will make it NO easier to reassemble the area unless they are able to be attached to the plastics. Although I didn’t want to, I could’ve used glue on the old ones, and I don’t want to have to resort to that now. Two, since the top and bottom of these new spacers are the exact same diameter, centering them using a post screw would be all but impossible! For those reasons, they’re essentially useless to me.

What do you suggest I do now??

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Yes…..I’m sure. Ever tried to exactly position not one, but TWO levels of loose spacers on a freshly waxed playfield, under this enormous piece of plastic, as well the plastic ball guides underneath it??? There’s 18 of ‘em. Give ‘er a try, and THEN come back and ask me that. LOL
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I think returning them is what I’ll do — thank you. Any other game, where the spacers are easily reached, I’d probably use them – under the outlane guides for example. There they wouldn’t be an issue. I will not be disassembling the upper parts of EBD again until absolutely necessary. Hopefully, I can source the original style elsewhere. Thanks again.

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DAMN, hadn’t noticed that, thanks!!

Ya know what??? I just went to replace that rubber and there’s nothing wrong with it!! There’s a flaw or something weird happening in the photo posted earlier. If you zoom in, you see the bulb socket TWICE!! Here’s another photo with the untouched rubber. SO WEIRD!! And the more I think about it, a rubber in that condition, right in the front of the game, would nevvvver get past me. LOL

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