Oshkosh, WI
Looking for the piece that has a bakelite section for the fingers that hold the contacts which has the metal plate that gets pulled to the coil. Don`t know the name of the piece but maybe someone here could inform me.
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I have a Genco of similar vintage, and I'm happy to try to help, but I don't understand from your description what part it is you're looking for.
Broadly, I've found out the hard way that Genco parts are very, very scarce. There are some substitutions that can be made, but other things that you'll probably need to make yourself if you can't track down suitable replacements.
I don't have a genco manufactured one for you, but let me look through the "junk box" and see if something from another manufacturer is close enough to work.
So you need the whole relay, not just the bakelite piece? What's wrong with the one you've got that can't be fixed?
Worst case you could make that piece with a bit of stiff non-conductive material, fiberglass circuit board, or perf board, or plastic. Many older pinball games used a thin hardboard/cardboard material (glue some cereal boxes together). Or possibly glue together the bits from the old one if it isn't too far gone.
Quoted from TK2012:Thanks for the pics, those are different than what I need. Thanks anyway.
Except they may not be. It's a bakelite attached to a bit of bent metal. You aren't likely to find an *exact* fit, but if it's wide enough to accommodate your switches, and the distance between slots is the same (or very close) it will likely work. Do you have a digital caliper? Measure how many thousandths between slots-- that's the only number that really matters. Anything else can be cut or shaped to fit if it's wide enough for however many stacks of switches you need to accommodate.
Edit: To add... if you really needed to do so because there's something unique about that relay setup, you could rivet a new bakelite to the exiting metal bit-- it's not that hard.
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