Hungry Hippos replacement lever/tail

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Replacement tail/lever and actuation arm for Hungry Hippos matching the photos, since ours snapped years ago. I think our version of the game is from the mid-80s but could be as late as early 90s. The hippo body on ours was glued down. If yours looks like ours inside (black holder for mechanism) this is probably the right replacement part. Prints in three parts. I printed in ABS and chemically welded the "tab" part of the main lever using acetone. The small spacer part doesn't need to be attached to the main arm to work, so I didn't bother bonding that bit. You could modify this to print as a single part with support, but I wanted to print with no support. Some of the photos show earlier prototypes. The STL is the final version that I settled on.