The Seawitch that I just picked up recently is missing a couple posts. I had not yet checked to see if they were available yet, so I was unaware they were unobtainable. Good to hear this is in the works 
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Quoted from mot:FWIW, I bought some ribbed transparent blue posts from PBR when I was restoring my Fathom. The repros were much darker and bluer than the originals, to the point that I ultimately didn't use any of them. I'm not sure how much of that is the color fading with time.
Their white posts had some sort of an aqua tinge to them the last time I bought some. I think they have issues with colors in general.
As long as I can get them back eventually, I might be willing to lend a couple out since I wasn't planning on doing much work on mine anytime soon. It was kept in a basement for 15 years, so the light exposure that it did get wasn't too damaging, as far as I can tell.
Here's a quick photo of the posts hidden under one of the plastics. How do the colors look to everyone?
Here are some photos with the plastics removed. Some of the photos are a bit on the yellow side because of the work light I was using. There is some funny business with wood screws to the left of the left slingshot, but everything else appears to be stock. Because of the extra holes in this area, I originally thought there may have been some posts missing, but that doesn't appear to be the case--they just got moved around.
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Quoted from j_m_:sk8ball:
so, you did something like this? blue = tall posts, purple = shorter posts
the posts under P7 could go either way since all 3 posts hold the plastic overhead. additionally, I believe that the right edge of that plastic rests over the wooden siderail which is the left shooter lane.
seawitch (new post configuration).jpg (Click image to enlarge)
I can work up a chart tonight based on my machine...didn't have time to do it last night.
Basically, the upper plastics are short posts, the slingshots are tall, the far right and far left plastics are tall, the posts behind the drop targets are tall.
Your first chart was closer to what was on my machine--the posts aren't mixed and matched under the plastics. Some simply use threaded metal posts, some use screws.
Quoted from stangbat:Are these the ones people were saying are the wrong color?
http://www.pinballcenter.eu/catalog/star-post-blue-faceted-1316-p-4878.html
http://www.pinballcenter.eu/catalog/star-post-blue-faceted-p-6763.html
Those are a significantly lighter shade of blue. Here's a rough comparison:
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Quoted from Dr_Dude:Also, on the issue of post-heights for Seawitch , it seems there is still some controversy! Possibly there is no "right" answer!
See the chart here:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/unobtainium-circa-1980-stern-posts#post-2307933
Is that what you were referring to?
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