Bumper and diode repair

[Smart Bomb]

Two pics attached:

First is a pic of a diode that is part of the flipper coil...one leg is sheared flush with the body of the diode...can it be saved? Is there a work-around/loophole to make it work? I do not have a spare diode.

Second pic..i am installing three bumpers...there is one short leg and one long leg. I see where the short connects to and i was told the long leg simply solders to the ground wire that is laid out throughout the game....so in the pic, if i solder the leg in the pic to the ground wire you see below the leg, i will be good, correct?

 

[Kilgore]

Your diode is for the lane change switch on that flipper, it won't do the damage that a missing coil diode would if you played the game. I assume you are referring to the pop bumper lamp, some connect to the GI lighting circuit, some are connected to mpu controlled lighting, check the lamp matrix for the pop bumpers, if they are not listed then just hook them to the GI.

 

[calvin12]

The pop light answer is in your pm. The double yellow wires screwed too the pf is what I explain in the message. You'll find 3 sets out yellow and 3 sets of red one of each near each pop, on opposite sides. Reds are all on the same side, yellow are all on the opposite side.

Not that you'd know what goes to that lug, but think like Williams, they would never waste the wire, solder, man hours, screw, and ring terminal. There must be something that attached there got it to exist. That is not how they would have randomly connected a single line.

We'll never waste is a strong term, almost never (pinbot has unused wires for optos for the drop targets, they used standard switches instead) confused the hell out of me at first.