I don’t think you need reinforced targets to be honest. Would be spending more money than you need to.
I would echo what has been said about just replacing the whole target and being done with it. For the sake of £7.25, instead of messing about trying to bend the metal and having to play about with the switch sensitivity. That target you provided a photo of looks like it’s been there since it left the factory.
Whilst you might not want to discuss price, as is your prerogative, the price paid is relevant to expectations of condition.
For what it’s worth, a friend of mine bought a Funhouse from eBay for about £2500 from memory, it might have even been more. Both he and I looked at it but our experience was only of playing pinballs, not what to look for in terms of condition, wear, etc. We knew the basics about lamp and solenoid tests but that’s it. A while later he had need for someone to come out and repair it, and the guy took one look at it and told my friend that it was in poor condition and that he’d paid over the odds.
He ended up getting rid of it, at a significant loss, and then bought another Funhouse from
@J85M on here. The one
@J85M sold cost him a lot less to buy and was honestly described as a “players condition” pin, but mechanically it was, and been for a long time, perfect. Why? A regular selling a pin on here has a vested interest in maintaining a good reputation, and dare I say it is more likely to be an honest person.
The moral of the story - eBay can be a ok place to buy pins, but if you’re inexperienced and don’t know what to look for re: condition, wear, faults, etc then the risk is much higher than buying from someone on here with a reputation to uphold.
these things are brilliant. My 2 lads stopped playing Xbox to play pinball, they now understand their physics lessons because of the last month or so..."Oh normally open switch means that!"
