I have been working on this for a month or two now and I am about ready to put them for sale on titanpinball.com but I have run into a small hold up I thought the Pinside community might be able to help.

First, the product is intended to clean up the normally scratched up, nasty ol lock down bar receiver. They are usually pretty gross. I have a Funhouse in my garage that I didn't even want to post a picture of!

It seems like many things pinball, there is not complete consistency with the type of receiver used on identical runs of games. I think the only good way to be sure of what you are getting is good old visual identification. I'm working on putting together some images of various lock bar receivers to match to the decals that fit them. So far, I have the 2 pictured below: Late Williams/Bally/Midway and Data East/Stern. The W/B/M also fits Spooky, Multimorphic and I think Dutch Pinball as well.

The Data East/Stern I know fits at least SAM games and does not include the cutout for any Lock Bar buttons. I'm not sure is Sega used the same receiver or not.

Feel free to share lockbar receiver pics if you think you spot a difference! I am also currently working on older WPC (Funhouse and older I think ) as well as Williams System 11.

If they are in demand, I'll add classic Bally, and older Williams, Gottlieb, etc... Currently I am thinking around the $10 or less range.

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Here are some more pics! So far I have 3 ball thru 7 ball versions...

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I forgot to mention. These are reverse (sub-surface) printed Velvet textured Lexan, not vinyl. The printing will not scratch off. I was also thinking of a silver brushed version instead of black.

Awesome! I'll get them up on the site asap! First will be the W/B version and I'll get the Data East/Stern printing going today!

That pic is a great example of W/B/M part usage inconsistencies. By all rights that fish tales should have the previous version receiver but it has the newer style. Sure seems like when they built these games they just used whatever they could get their hands on at the time! The last fish tales I worked on had the previous revision receiver...

Nice looking machine BTW!

Any suggestions as to how many ball versions of DE/ Stern I should make? 3 and 4 for sure...

Pinside Exclusive! I have 4,5,6,7 ball WPC versions ready to go in limited quantities:

https://www.titanpinball.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=60&product_id=133

I'll do my best to get the others up asap. I'm going to hold off on announcing this to the masses until I get stock levels up.

I thought about making up my own "inspected by" as well! I was going to use "Inspected by Seymore Butts"

I have only checked a Spooky RZ personally, but I'm confident the Late WPC style also fits Spooky, Multimorphic and Dutch Pinball!

LOL!

Yes sir! It's already printed, waiting on adhesive and laser.

I wanted to mention a couple things here just for full disclosure:

1. The lockbar receiver doesn't need to be pretty, but it does need to be clean for a good adhesive bond. I use 90% or better isopropyl but I'm sure naphtha and others would work as long as it's an evaporating cleaner.

2. Shipping these decals was a head scratcher for us from the beginning. If any arrive damaged PLEASE let me know. We will adjust the way we pack them based on what condition they are when they get to you guys. I had to mess with the cut several times to make that goofy cutout stay in the part to be removed before installation. That spot in the label is so thin... I'm really hoping they don't get messed up in shipping.

3. Let me know what you think after you install them! I found the fit to be pretty accurate but the laser cut decal is probably more accurate than the sheet metal process involved with making the lockbar receiver. Our laser is about ±.005" and sheet metal is usually at best ±.010".

Thanks! You guys are the best! I'm really looking forward to streaming! Gotta save up some $$ for some equipment.

Oh yeah, it's like a 5 gallon bucket of balls! I forgot about that...

Since the decals are different I decided to do two separate versions for Data East and Stern. Any suggestions on the number of balls for each? 3, 4, 5 are for sure but I don't know of any Data East games that took more than 4 balls and I'm not aware of any Stern games that take more than 5 but what I don't know could fill an airplane hangar. Comments? Suggestions?

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Thanks to j.m. for the close up pics!

Awesome! Did the thin area where the breakout piece is survive ok? I thought about getting some 3" cardboard tubes but Lexan is pretty tough.

Thanks!

Good to know! I'll update my art files. Thanks! Late WPC 3 ball is almost ready.

I will probably do a generic one eventually. For the oddball machines that take lots o balls or homebrew stuff or whatever.

3 ball is available now for Late WPC!

It only took 3 tries to get the cut fitted correctly for the Williams system 11 machines but it worked! They are up on the site right now. I have 3 and 4 ball.

https://www.titanpinball.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=133

Here is one installed on the worlds rattiest Space Shuttle. Looking for a restorable playfield BTW if anyone has one

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Can anyone confirm that JJP uses a late WPC lock bar receiver? It sure looks like it. If anyone is in Allen with a WOZ or Hobbit, I'll gladly provide a test sample!

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Does anyone have any input on the art and number of balls we should have printed for classic Bally games? So far I have this one for Centaur:

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