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Quoted from AlexF:Here is a 1940s Dodge hula lamp. She even hulas. She has 3 settings, lit, hula or both. My wife says I need a cooler shade and she's right but the period correct ones aren't cheap.
I think there are people who make custom lamp shades on etsy.com. You might be able to find someone to make a repro for you.
Wish I had some pics to share, but I live in a mechanical desert. Not much of that stuff around here.
Quoted from 0geist0:Thanks. Maybe I can have one made at a machine shop. I have the original one but it's pitted.
I might be able to turn one for you. Any idea what it is made of?
Quoted from ZNET:Steering accuracy translates into the fastest lap times.
I'd love to see how that works.
This will help some:
http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=5976
The IPDB might appreciate some pictures of that version.
Pace manufacturing built mostly slot machines, so there is a chance that it just got shipped in a Pace box, or Pace made it for another manufacturer.
There's also a chance that it's not a game back glass at all. For instance, it might be a part of display for a pin setter that shows which pins are still standing between the first and second ball.
Quoted from Deez:So the ball lift motor on my united Aztec just isn't powerful enough to lift the balls and constantly jams up. Has any retrofitted a more powerful motor into one of these things?
Did the original motor ever work? If it did, you need to find the problem and fix it. Probably grease somewhere that has gathered dirt and gummed up over time. Putting a larger motor in is likely to just tear things up down the line.
Quoted from Oldgoat:I was thinking a capacitor; however, the way the machine works is you grab two handles, one of which turns. As you turn the handle, a coil moves on a rod over another coil causing the voltage to increase.
Yes, variable transformer. Does this machine plug into A/C mains? Or did it operate off battery?
If battery, then there must be some sort of "chopper" circuit. Transformers don't work with D/C.
Many years ago, I took apart a vacuum tube car radio (note: NOT stereo 
) It had a part in it (called a vibrator, IIRC) that would switch the 12DC from the car battery on and off very rapidly so it could be fed to a transformer to get the high voltages needed for the vacuum tubes. If your machine operated off battery, then I suspect it used something similar. If so, my best guess is it is a capacitor that went across the contacts of the vibrator to prevent arcing which leads to contact erosion.
If it works on A/C, then all bets are off and I just made everyone suffer through a history on vintage electronics for no reason. 
Best of luck.
Quoted from wayner:I have now completed all three machines-they came up fairly nice. The centre one will be my keeper & I will onsell the other two. The third machine had a missing coinbox but managed to fabricate one of these tricky little boxes including the internal coin diverter.
Very nice bit of kit on the fab work. Sheet metal can be tricky, even if you have access to the right equipment. But that looks really nice.
I do some machining metal work (turning and milling). People don't understand that things like sheet metal work, wrought iron, and tube bending are all metal working, but require different skill sets and tools. I've had to turn down several requests to make motorcycle handlebars.
But now I know who to contact if I need a coin box. 
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