New Guy with New Guy Questions on 1st Vintage Pachinko

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Been looking at getting a machine for several years but antiques stores always wanted to much and the occasional goodwill find were always way to damaged for me. Finally got a decent looking one and have been reading up and watching vintagepachinko youtube vids and have learned quite a bit already. Mine does have a couple irregularities I am hoping you good folks could have an answer too.

1. the wire for the ball empty sign has been bent in (looks intentional) to disable the flag drop, not sure why unless it was done for next issue

2. the low ball lever on the feeder tray moves freely by hand, but it does not move up on its own as if the tray is empty. Is there supposed to be a spring or weight that a full tray of balls overcomes to move it down.

3. when I opened the clear cover over the seesaw doodad I found 1 ball that is bigger than the 5 that were in the machine and not engraved. Is it possible this ball is from the seesaw? In my readings I have this referred to as 1 ball seesaw and in only 1 place it was referred to as a 2 ball seesaw. There is definitely 1 ball in there that I can tell when I move it. I dont see any opening during regular game play that a ball could end up in here.

4.The lost ball chute seems to have electrical tape under it, is this normal a "fix" that was done to correct an issue

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Thanks guys