The middle left of the playfield has a pair of kickout saucers known as “Kickout Craters” on the original game. This mechanism has what appears to be a pretty common flaw. There’s a metal input shaft with a large external gear and a small internal gear. The small gear tends to crack and spin on the shaft. A ball entering a kickout hole won’t be kicked back out. If the gear is cracked, you’re sort of screwed. I have two surplus Kickout Craters mechanisms and both have the same cracked gear. You might as well experiment with an adhesive. Several folks have reported success with CA. I’d recommend super thin CA. Let capillary action draw the adhesive into the gear crack and onto the shaft. For what it’s worth, the gear looks to be a 10 tooth with an outer diameter of 6 mm, a thickness of 5.3 mm and a shaft diameter of 2.5 mm. The thickness dimension isn’t all that critical. Take a look on the Internet and see what might be available. There’s a “UXCELL 10-2.5A” gear. The outer diameter is only 5.7 mm, but maybe it’s close enough.
The law of war is part of who we are. George Washington, as Commander in Chief of
the Continental Army, agreed with his British adversary that the Revolutionary War would be
“carried on agreeable to the rules which humanity formed” and “to prevent or punish every
breach of the rules of war within the sphere of our respective commands.” During the Civil War,
President Lincoln approved a set of “Instructions for the Government of the Armies of the
United States in the Field,” which inspired other countries to adopt similar codes for their armed
forces, and which served as a template for international codifications of the law of war.
(no, this is not a very serious page)