Crazy Flipper Fingers

Last night the launcher on Fish Tales was broken.

and the captive ball on pinball magic is nearly impossible to hit. i got it once out of about 10 direct hits.

Fixed the broken wire on Fish Tales.

The captive ball now fixed on Pinball Magic. It was pushed past the retaining pins.

Fixed a bad opto on Dr Who mini playfield kick out hole.

-Jer

Dr Who had a complete switch matrix melt down, so we put Sword of Fury in it's place.

-jer

Pinball Magic was a complete mess last night. Display was off and about 70% of the lights were out.
Turns out resting a game doesn't fix something like that so I left it off.

Pinball Magic did a few strange things when we were in there servicing. We intended to pull it and Police Force, but Dr Who decided to blow out the entire switch matrix.

We have a World Cup in the shop with The Standards name all over it.

-Jer

We replace Pinball Magic tonight and replaced it with World Cup. Fixed a dead flipper on Judge Dredd.

Current lineup is;
Judge Dredd
Fish Tales
Police Force
Black Rose
Swords of Fury
World Cup

World Cup developed some problems in the switch matrix and a few switches stopped working. Got it up and going tonight.

-Jer

On SoF the right flipper gets stuck up. Fishtales has a glitch during multiball where it can't kick out a ball that drains with ballsave still on, keeping multiball alive much longer than it should.

We changed the right side spring setup on Swords of Fury to external spring, so the hang ups should be fixed.

A ball was stuck on a bent gate on the right side of World Cup. It snapped when we tried to replace it. It didn't seem to affect game play, so we left it until we find a replacement.

Someone was parked on Fishtales, so we couldn't get on it to check this trip out.

-Jer

The fishtales thing was bizarre. It was spitting the ball out of the trough (if you drained a ball during multiball with the ball save still on) with so much force that it would hit the wall of the plunger lane and then bounce back into the trough. This was causing all kinds of confusion with the machine - and basically making for an endless multiball.

As of last Sunday, the left flipper on Fish Tales was weakus. Like, weak enough that if a ball was coming down at it quickly, and you tried to wack it, the ball would be like, "NAW!" and it would knock the flipper down a notch. Weak I tell you!

Left flip on fish tales is still way mushy.

ROM is not lying about the weak FT flipper.

we now know ROM is not a liar.

Finally! validation.

Got fishtales flipper fixed a week or so ago and replaced a faulty bridge rectifier in Judge Dredd last night.

-Jer

I screwed around with the electronics for ages and it turned out to be a chunk of metal came off the plunger and was intermittently dragging the flipper. It really felt inconstant like bad electronics.

-jer