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Well I wrote this sentence in 2010 and
now I wondering if it is true, laugh
“OK let's clear this up; there were
three kinds of ball shooters – Plastic, Metal, and Chromed?”
From: smddms@my-deja on rec.games.pinball Date: 1999/07/19
Hi, I am looking for an early 50's Bally Bingo ball shooter rod bezel. The
part has a round pyramid shape and mounts on the outside of the cabinet in
front
of the ball shooter rod and spring.
It is usually red in color. Does anyone know where I can get this part? Steve
Response from WACKO172: All of these that I have seen are chrome metal. A
plastic ball shooter housing in the '50 's? I have the metal ones.
But you have to tell me whether or
not it has a hole in it or not for the ball lift lever.
smddms follows up: Dave, the part is actually metal and was found on the
first 4 or 5 bingo models produced (1951-1952). On subsequent designs it was
changed to the chrome piece that you
are describing. I put a picture of the part I am looking for at:
http://members.aol.com/smddms/bezel.jpg Thanks, Steve
 
~ Bally’s 1951 Coney Island
 
~ Bally’s 1951 Spot Lite ~
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Bally’s 1951 Bright Lights ~
~ Bally’s 1952 Atlantic City ~
 
~ Bally’s 1952 Palm Beach 1 and Palm
Beach 2 ~
I found an old email today where Keith shares a few comments,
On the really old games.....
Some had the red things on the shooter and some didn't.
Some had straight up and down coin chutes and some were canted.
Some of the games like bright light had the manual ball lift. On some
games you pushed to operate it...some you pulled.
Bingo Joe pointed out to me that about a hundred bright lights don't have
playfield lamps.
These seem like small difference. I'm an inspector in a machine shop
and some say a little anal retentive about details like that. In my
opinion, these are not so small details. There is something going on
there. These parts weren't simply interchangeable. Not like
getting mag wheels or steel wheels on a car. You don't just bolt on
whatever one you feel like.
With the red bezel to the chrome shooter with the button below it...The
standard chrome shooter has a cutout that would prevent the red bezel from
being used on it. There would be a hole in the cabinet.
The way the canted old style coin unit worked took a little more room and it
certainly seems to me like they had to use a different, slightly wider, coin
mech mounting bracket.
The manual ball lift, if it was push or pull you needed a different ball lift
mechanism. So they weren't simply interchangeable.
So what does all this mean? I don't know but my guess is that they were
making these in two different locations. Almost had to be. My experience
tells me it would be to hard to keep all that crap straight in the same
location. I've thought about this before and have come up with all
kinds of maybe's. My favorite maybe is that there was a horse race
facility and pinball facility or maybe a slot facility and in the beginning
two different facilities were making the same game only slightly different.
I told you about my Belgium Miss America Supreme experience early this
year. Well I found out from that Bally would change things up in the
middle of the run if there were significant problems. So I thought
maybe that's what happened here with the push or pull differences.
However, the next years models had the same thing going on.
Hmmmm. Must have been making them in at least two different locations.
~ I didn’t know! ~
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