mecha
Well-known member
got a Lethal Weapon 3 that was working great for a couple months until the GIs quit on it. instinctively from an experience with the very similar Jurassic Park, I pulled the lighting board and checked the solder joints for cold solder or burning, etc. and that wasn't the case.
had a time where I lifted the playfield and I guess wiggled some wires and they came back. now neither step works. I went as far as to swap light boards with the JP to see if the problem would carry and it didn't, so I'm leaning towards it being wiring related.
while I was doing this, in the ball trough there's I'm guessing 2 coils, one that kicks the ball over to the out hole, and another that shoots it the ball launcher? lol well none of these activate now, the ball never comes out to the launcher. the first coil that shoots the ball over had a broken off wire, I soldered that back on and touched up a lot of shitty solder work to the coils and it still didn't fix it.
the only thing that changed was unplugging and re-plugging the connectors coming from the backbox to the playfield. none of these connectors look burned at all, and they're connected as tight as any of us could get them.
if anyone has any ideas of where to start with this, please let me know. I don't work on pinball machines.
had a time where I lifted the playfield and I guess wiggled some wires and they came back. now neither step works. I went as far as to swap light boards with the JP to see if the problem would carry and it didn't, so I'm leaning towards it being wiring related.
while I was doing this, in the ball trough there's I'm guessing 2 coils, one that kicks the ball over to the out hole, and another that shoots it the ball launcher? lol well none of these activate now, the ball never comes out to the launcher. the first coil that shoots the ball over had a broken off wire, I soldered that back on and touched up a lot of shitty solder work to the coils and it still didn't fix it.
the only thing that changed was unplugging and re-plugging the connectors coming from the backbox to the playfield. none of these connectors look burned at all, and they're connected as tight as any of us could get them.
if anyone has any ideas of where to start with this, please let me know. I don't work on pinball machines.