Sankyo Max Centre Feature Broken

**Johnny Bravo** · 03-21-2024, 06:33 PM

Hi, Whilst dismantling my Sankyo Max I found the center feature appears to be broken. The plastic ball catch appears to have cracked and separated. I am contemplating ways to heat the plastic to ease the pieces back into position then glue the joints. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Centre Feature.jpg
Centre Feature2.jpg
Centre Feature3.jpg

**SibSr** · 03-21-2024, 09:29 PM

It looks to me that it was done intentionally...nice straight corner cuts and then flared out to make a sort of funnel to make sure the ball gets caught???

Sent from my LG-H872 using Tapatalk

**Wayne-Ooo** · 03-21-2024, 09:45 PM

Originally Posted by SibSr

It looks to me that it was done intentionally...nice straight corner cuts and then flared out to make a sort of funnel to make sure the ball gets caught???

I would agree with SibSr.

I'm thinking it came that way.

I've had other machines with similar pieces cut and bent, for it to accommodate for the pay pocket hole.

**Johnny Bravo** · 03-21-2024, 10:32 PM

Gents, Thank you for the information. I do believe you are correct. I don't think the balls would ever cause such damage. Based on your feedback I checked the raceway the ball travels going into this feature and it is slightly shallower than the diameter of a ball. Thus the modification to allow ball to enter. Thank you very much. One less thing to repair.