I've just bought a Toyotec Twin Tales through an Ebay auction and have been looking at the automatic ball lifter from Slotsdirect that I see mentioned all over PachiTalk.

As I'm new to Pachinkos, does anyone know if this ball lifter is compatible with the Twin Tales Pachinko? Will installation (by me) be a fairly simple procedure (assuming I'm at least mildly mechanically-inclined)?

Also, does anyone know why the picture of this ball lifter on the Slotsdirect site has the "up-tube" extending 4 inches above the top of the Pachinko machine? Is this really necessary, and, if not, has anyone modified their own so that the tube does not extend above the top?

Thanks in advance for the responses.

FYI: I did pay too much ($380) for this Pachinko machine :-( but at least didn't win one of the first couple of auctions ($600+). :-)

Thanks,

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Kamehany