A Deck Pad Should Not Look Like This!!

[KWagner]

I have a re-spot of a 4 pin tonight. I go and spot the 4 pin and I then check the scissors and the deck pad. This is what I find left of the deck pad! The repair procedure here use to be stuff some paper towels in the holes and duck tape them up! This "fix" I guess lasted a few years until tonight. I would say out of the 60 deck pads on the machines about 40 of them look like this, or have huge holes in them. There was only 1 spare pad in the back, and it was about as hard as a rock. Never the less I got it a bit softer and put it on the machine.

The next shot the pinsetter detected a strike on standing pins. So it totally wasn't the deck pad. After inspecting the detector it was rather "dry" and I oiled it up and it once again worked properly.

To make the night even worse, I guess in my haste to fix the deck pad, the 5/16ths driver fell out of my pocket and made its way through the machine and ended up under the lip of the turn pan causing pan jams.

When I say this place is falling part in my posts. I'm not kidding.... I gotta start a fund raiser or something for some $ to repair some of these things.

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[JohnSebeny]

I wish I had some pictures of the pit cushion linkages I've rebuilt. I couldn't begin to tell you the number of parts that were MISSING on those assemblies. How they ran, I have NO idea!!! Either parts were missing, or added washers galore. I guess that's expected when nobody rebuilds assemblies in almost 20 years (no joke).

[wepauls]

Welcome to my past out of 260 pads at my old center at least 190 wer that way

[brentman1]

Years ago someone sold rubber plugs and a rubber cover, you glued the plug in the worn out hole and the cover over bottom of the pad. I still have 1 center with a few of these. They worked great with the glue on pads.

[brentman1]

I wish I had some pictures of the pit cushion linkages I've rebuilt. I couldn't begin to tell you the number of parts that were MISSING on those assemblies. How they ran, I have NO idea!!! Either parts were missing, or added washers galore. I guess that's expected when nobody rebuilds assemblies in almost 20 years (no joke).

Few years back John I don,t think anyone did much of anything over there, I could almost hear them here in Pekin when they fired up!

[mr.badwrench]

Maybe you need to find a new use for that old deck pad.

[sbrooks]

^ That's Funny.

[JohnSebeny]

Few years back John I don,t think anyone did much of anything over there, I could almost hear them here in Pekin when they fired up!

[Captaintenpin]

I believe you are correct brentman1. That's why we are trying to make up for the neglect. But as Jeff Foxworthy once said, "It takes a long time to get to England in a rowboat." Doing as much as we can when we can.

[brentman1]

I believe you are correct brentman1. That's why we are trying to make up for the neglect. But as Jeff Foxworthy once said, "It takes a long time to get to England in a rowboat." Doing as much as we can when we can.

Glad to see you guys working hard at it, that is a really nice center!

[JohnSebeny]

Glad to see you guys working hard at it, that is a really nice center!

stop on by sometime. haven't seen ya in a while anyway.

[House]

KWagner, stay away from the white/yellow bolt on foam pads. trust me when i say this.

order brunswick grey bolt on pads. they are the best ones i have ever used, and i think alot of guys can agree to that.

[Kanga (James)]

KWagner, stay away from the white/yellow bolt on foam pads. trust me when i say this.

order brunswick grey bolt on pads. they are the best ones i have ever used, and i think alot of guys can agree to that.

I second that!

[KWagner]

There are many of those white/yellowish pads on the machines here. Most have holes in them, not a surprise. Maybe this summer I can sneak in a set of new pads for a machine.