{"id":139,"date":"2008-11-19T22:25:27","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T20:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=139"},"modified":"2011-06-15T20:59:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T18:59:40","slug":"new-plastic-ramp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"New plastic ramp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Received a new (used) plastic ramp today.<\/p>\n<p>Bought it on eBay from &#8220;reaload&#8221; for 33.50 Euro &#8211; a real bargain &#8211; although I had been a bit sceptical about bidding on the part:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;reaload&#8221; is apparently breaking down a TAF at the moment and had a display on offer. With my current situation on my display I thought this would be a good opportunity to get a fully working display. His description seemed very positive, but there was no mention of &#8220;gassing&#8221;. So I asked the question whether he could confirm that there was no gassing &#8211; no reply. Two follow up questions &#8211; no reply. I didn&#8217;t know why reaload was ignoring me, but I didn&#8217;t have a good feeling about it.<\/p>\n<p>So when, at the same time, there was a plastic ramp up for grabs, also from the same seller, I was sceptical. But still went ahead with the bidding process.<\/p>\n<p>Well, having received the part today, I can say that I am totally delighted. No cracks and only slight wear marks where the pinball has travelled. Even the mounting holes are not cracked (like my current plastic ramp). I&#8217;m sure that when I&#8217;ve polished it with a bit of Novus 3 it will be (almost) like new!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Received a new (used) plastic ramp today. Bought it on eBay from &#8220;reaload&#8221; for 33.50 Euro &#8211; a real bargain &#8211; although I had been a bit sceptical about bidding on the part: &#8220;reaload&#8221; is apparently breaking down a TAF at the moment and had a display on offer. With my current situation on my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1756,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/1756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}