Frax
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Want a consolidated place to track all the work I do on this pin as I go through it...
I emailed RPG about the repro playfields they're doing, hoping they were keeping a waitlist for seconds....and guess what...well..that preorder isn't REALLY closed. I'm on the list..they said they'd email in 6-8 weeks when they're ready. Now I have to begin an extremely desperate scramble to get all the money together and secure it against my legitimate bills. Ack.
Got pissed off enough with the right flipper sticking and having to fix it for the kid that I pulled the PF up to take a look and see what was going on. I knew from the first time that the return spring is a bit....crappy. It's weak and looked like it was getting tangled up. But as I was messing with it tonight, I realized the problem wasn't the spring at all...it was the leaf switches. The tension on them against the piston at the end of the stroke was high enough that if the thing went all the way to the end, the leaf would actually hold it in place if it stopped there. Took some flat-nose pliers, bent them AWAY from the mechanism just slightly so that they still function as intended, just don't put enough pressure on the thing at the end to lock it in place.
Real test will be when the kid comes home and has a chance to pound on it. I dunno what he does, but he's got a real knack for locking up that flipper where I could play for 20-30 minutes and not have it happen. :| Couldn't get it to lock up by manually moving the flipper mech though....that's promising.
I emailed RPG about the repro playfields they're doing, hoping they were keeping a waitlist for seconds....and guess what...well..that preorder isn't REALLY closed. I'm on the list..they said they'd email in 6-8 weeks when they're ready. Now I have to begin an extremely desperate scramble to get all the money together and secure it against my legitimate bills. Ack.
Got pissed off enough with the right flipper sticking and having to fix it for the kid that I pulled the PF up to take a look and see what was going on. I knew from the first time that the return spring is a bit....crappy. It's weak and looked like it was getting tangled up. But as I was messing with it tonight, I realized the problem wasn't the spring at all...it was the leaf switches. The tension on them against the piston at the end of the stroke was high enough that if the thing went all the way to the end, the leaf would actually hold it in place if it stopped there. Took some flat-nose pliers, bent them AWAY from the mechanism just slightly so that they still function as intended, just don't put enough pressure on the thing at the end to lock it in place.
Real test will be when the kid comes home and has a chance to pound on it. I dunno what he does, but he's got a real knack for locking up that flipper where I could play for 20-30 minutes and not have it happen. :| Couldn't get it to lock up by manually moving the flipper mech though....that's promising.