I have a 1966 williams 8 ball and it was rerubbered . The shot into the horseshoe seems more often than not to bounce back or its travel impeded. My question is was there a plastic or a guide underneath the actual horseshoe plastic that might be missing in my game , there seems to be 4 holes that there possible could be , not unlike middle plastics on a bally game . if there wasnt should i just increase the size of the rubbers? thanks in advance
This is a picture of my 8-Ball center horseshoe area with the plastic removed. It has a metal lane guide in there that it sounds from your description (and that picture from the IPDB) is missing from yours.
Hope this helps it's a cool fun game!! (I really need to get mine finished and up in my lineup!!)
Phoebe
20200902_124436 (resized).jpgthank you yes that is what is missing after all and most pics i see . ! it negates the rubbers inside from "bouncing back the ball . hmmmm i wonder how to make something like that
You can buy small pieces of aluminum bar at Lowes, Home Depot, Ace, etc. and form it around something of the appropriate diameter. If you want it to look exactly like what is shown in the picture, you would have to order extruded aluminum structural angle (McMaster would probably have it), or channel (and cut one side off). It's pretty much covered up by the plastic though, so I would just use bar stock.
Wanna join the discussion? Please sign in to reply to this topic.
Great to see you're enjoying Pinside! Did you know Pinside is able to run without any 3rd-party banners or ads, thanks to the support from our visitors? Please consider a donation to Pinside and get anext to your username to show for it! Or better yet, subscribe to Pinside+!
This page was printed from https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/williams-8-ball-question and we tried optimising it for printing. Some page elements may have been deliberately hidden.
Scan the QR code on the left to jump to the URL this document was printed from.
Orillia, ON
Springfield, MA