Hi Nino
nice work as usual. You are right about Stern using crappy quality metal. Target banks in particular have severe wear when there is metal to metal contact.
They are not your usual Stern flipper base plates - they look like a cross between the 1st generation and the 2nd generation (which they should be). The gen 2 normally sit off the playfield, and the flipper stroke is limited by a separate bracket rather than the end bent up like the one you have (see https://www.pinballlife.com/classic-stern-flipper-base-sub-assembly-left-or-right-staked.html) . Wonder if it is factory?
cheersIan
I think it might have been factory, and W1 Bushing used. The owner ordered the W2 (Gen 2) plates and we had the bushings, so it was returned to the factory configuration for the machine. A lot of these parts for Sterns are now available from PBL. I remember making my own kits from various suppliers 10 years ago.
