Very often plastics are damaged on pinball machines. Common plastics can be located quite easily but for rarer machines this can be difficult.
The Balls Of Steel website contains thousands of high resolution scans of pinball plastics that can be downloaded and used to reproduce the broken or missing item.As far as I can currently determine, my IJ only has one plastic that is broken and needs replacing, the "Jackpot" plastic as shown on the left. Fortunately this plastic is readily available and I will probably just purchase a new one.
The following links will help me out if I decide to reproduce the broken plastic myself:-
Indiana Jones scans on the Balls Of Steel site
How to recreate plastics
Plastic Protectors
One additional thing I will purchase is a full set of plastic protectors. These are made from an impact resistant plastic (PETG) which don't break from ball strikes.
This photo shows the protectors with blue protective film which needs to be removed before being installed.
The protectors are the same shape as the original plastics but protrude about 1mm further out and therefore protect the original plastic piece.
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