elfyhead
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my new whirlwind has a cellar kickout that is remarkably fast. i mean, *really* fast. you can't flipper catch it. you can't do much other than try to block it from draining by lifting the flipper and having it bounce back up, and in doing that you lose ball control entirely. this seems unnatural, so i poked at it last night.
i looked under the hood, and the solenoid has clearly been replaced at some point. what's in there now is an AE-23-800.
so i went to the manual, and got myself confused, but then saw some clarity at the end (keep reading
).
the playfield diagram labels that part as the "Cellar & Kickback" (on pages 3 & 42).
on page 68 it has the Cellar & Kickback Assembly, which lists an AE-26-1500 solenoid (which would be much weaker than an AE-23-800).
but on page 59, there is the "Bottom Arch Kickback Assembly" which has an AE-23-800 solenoid.
so, what i think happened is that whoever replaced that solenoid before put in an AE-23-800 because they mis-read the manual and thought that was the right size. or, maybe that was the only solenoid they had on-hand. but they should have put in an AE-26-1500.
can somebody confirm for me that their whirlwind has an AE-26-1500 on the cellar kickback solenoid, before i order one?
thanks in advance.
ETA: another question - anybody know the part number for the microswitch connected to the spinner? the manual just lists it as plain 5647-12133-08, but it has a hole in the end where the wire connecting to the spinner goes, and i haven't found any of those at the usual parts sites. i guess i could just buy the plain-jane switch and drill my own hole in the end, but i'd prefer to just buy it pre-drilled if it's available.
i looked under the hood, and the solenoid has clearly been replaced at some point. what's in there now is an AE-23-800.
so i went to the manual, and got myself confused, but then saw some clarity at the end (keep reading
the playfield diagram labels that part as the "Cellar & Kickback" (on pages 3 & 42).
on page 68 it has the Cellar & Kickback Assembly, which lists an AE-26-1500 solenoid (which would be much weaker than an AE-23-800).
but on page 59, there is the "Bottom Arch Kickback Assembly" which has an AE-23-800 solenoid.
so, what i think happened is that whoever replaced that solenoid before put in an AE-23-800 because they mis-read the manual and thought that was the right size. or, maybe that was the only solenoid they had on-hand. but they should have put in an AE-26-1500.
can somebody confirm for me that their whirlwind has an AE-26-1500 on the cellar kickback solenoid, before i order one?
thanks in advance.
ETA: another question - anybody know the part number for the microswitch connected to the spinner? the manual just lists it as plain 5647-12133-08, but it has a hole in the end where the wire connecting to the spinner goes, and i haven't found any of those at the usual parts sites. i guess i could just buy the plain-jane switch and drill my own hole in the end, but i'd prefer to just buy it pre-drilled if it's available.
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