I was playing my Big Guns tonight when the right eject stopped working. I opened it up and found the pivot bracket had snapped. Looked in the manual and found the part number, A-6950-R. "There should be plenty of these!" I thought, since eject kickers are a super common feature on pins from this era. I searched it up on Marco and... Out of stock. Variations of it, also out of stock. I googled it, can't find anything from other vendors. All that's for sale I can find is a trimmed version (Which I bought, but I'll have to add something else to act as a coil stop now) and the entire assembly.

How is that a part like this isn't stocked anywhere? I would expect that a part used in as many games as this one would be easy to find.

Thanks but that says used. Seeing as mine just broke I'd rather use one that that hasn't potentially also had years of stress put on it.

Honestly I'm just legitimately curious why some seemingly common parts are hard to find these days and aren't still made to keep things stocked.

D'oh! Sorry, for some reason my attention went to the bottom of the page where a used one is listed. Thanks, I'll grab a few.

That makes sense, but it's certainly a bit concerning for the future when parts like these sell out everywhere.

Didn't think about that, I'll definitely try contacting him next time. I usually only think to check Pinball Resource when I need a Gottlieb specific part, I tend to forget he's got a lot more.