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http://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/A-15267

had the same problem recently, couldn't find one either.

You can zoom in on the parts list photo on marco's listing, and see if you can start scrounging the various parts.

You might have to be a little inventive, maybe mount on a piece of wood instead of a metal bracket, or somesuch.

For the coil bracket, a standard shooter lane ball shooter assembly might well work (ie: as used on T2), mount on a piece of wood, with a wood block and the rubber pad as the firing surface.

Also look at kickback shooter assemblies; anything that mounts flat to the top of a playfield.

Would this be a viable replacement?

http://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/B-10686-1

Pinball life also has it, but they are closed for a brief vacation:

http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=708

The cached page: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CQnlCFgOmUoJ:www.pinballlife.com/index.php%3Fp%3Dproduct%26id%3D708+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Also on pbresource:

http://www.pbresource.com/bells.html#knock

That would get most of the parts, I'd think ...

TAF's knocker whacks a rubber pad, though, so you'd have to get that too ... and a way to mount it.

My thought was use something like this assembly, mounted on a small wood plate, with a wood block and rubber pad for the coil plunger to thwack against.

If mounted in the cabinet, and snugged directly up to the cabinet wall, you should get a similar knock sound.

The issue is that it mounts from the end. Most knockers mount from the side. I'm thinking I can weld a metal plate to the end of a standard knocker and marco carries the blue pad.

Hmmm....you might have to scrounge individual parts and put one together yourself.

http://www.marcospecialties.com//images/products/A-15267/additional1/large.jpg

cable: http://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/H-11835
bumper pad: http://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/23-6629
coil bracket: http://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/01-9423
bell armature assembly: http://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/A-17767
nut: http://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/4408-01119-00
spring: http://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/10-135
grommet: http://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/38-6420
coil: http://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/CLL-008 (you can probably find a different one with a reproduction wrapper
tubing/sleeve: http://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/03-7067

The only missing part is the bracket A-15266 (the most important part, unfortunately). Maybe try contacting planetarypinball.com?

Or, I wonder if you could use somehow use a pop-bumper bracket. Those mound from the end.

[edit]: Or, if you can find a Williams Firepower knocker bracket and add an L-bracket to it, that might be worth investigating.

A jet bumper bracket probably won't work, but a VUK bracket would ...

in a Jet, the plunger is held OUT from the coil by a spring and drawn down and in when it energizes.

In a VUK, the plunger is held away from the coil, and drawn UP when it energizes. That's the action you want.

Even better, maybe something like a disappearing post bracket? Spacing might be closer.

Good idea

Does this look like a possible match?

http://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/21416

This might actually work if you cut the mounting end off and drill some holes and add a return spring.

http://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/MA-12

That's a good possibility ... might have to play with it, and perhaps mount on some small pieces of wood as a standoff, to get enough throw from the plunger assy (it will stick out that small hole at the bracket end) to thwack the rubber pad.

The idea I had for the wooden plate was, you'd mount a standard kickback or shooter lane assy on that, then it would bolt to the backside of the wall at the back of the coin bay (that cross support), allowing the "business end" to hit the rubber pad mounted on another piece of wood that would be attached to the cabinet wall.