Sttng. Diverter at top of left ramp?

Frax

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Mine has no diverter up there behind the romulan ship. Is it just supposed to fall down that part of the ramp if its a weak shot, or can the borg ship kick it back out to the left? Credit dot came back and switch test reporting that the "left ramp made" up there is the culprit.
 
The normal shot up the left Detla ramp is to the wireform and back to the lower right flipper. The diverter sends it ot the Borg ship when you have lock enabled for multiball, otherwise it comes back to the right flipper.
 
The normal shot up the left Detla ramp is to the wireform and back to the lower right flipper. The diverter sends it ot the Borg ship when you have lock enabled for multiball, otherwise it comes back to the right flipper.

The one I don't have? :p
 
Can one of you guys take a pic of this area in as high res as possible if you get a chance? I'm going to pull it out tonight and look at it.

Surely that entire assembly, coil and all, can't be missing. LOL.
 
Nevermind! Found it, and FIXED it!

Someone mentioned some white crud gumming up other assemblies, and sure enough, that's what it was. I completely pulled the diverter assembly, cleaned up the rosin/oil white crud, cleaned the main diverter shaft, put a teensy bit of 3-in-1 oil on it and wiped it off, reassembled put it back in, and BOOM, working diversion to right flipper. No more free borg locks for me!

That gunk completely had the mech so totally locked the solenoid could not move the piston!
 
In the future I would try to avoid using oil at all, the oil will actually attract the gunk. There really are not any parts on a pinball machine that required lubrication, just a good cleaning will usually get things back to normal.
 
Metal on metal wear bugs me. Normally I wouldnt oil parts, like slingshot arms and whatnot, but this is a 4 inch rod inside a metal tube, and I wiped off everything. The only oil left on there is whatever managed to get missed by my cloth down in the scratches on the metal.
 
Actually, the plunger for the diverter should be moving in and out of the coil sleeve (which should be made of plastic). If the sleeve isn't plastic then someone put the wrong one in there...

No oil is necessary and promises to create more troubles in the future!
 
Actually, the plunger for the diverter should be moving in and out of the coil sleeve (which should be made of plastic). If the sleeve isn't plastic then someone put the wrong one in there...

No oil is necessary and promises to create more troubles in the future!

Um...

That's not what I'm talking about. The diverter itself has a metal sleeve as part of the assembly, not talking about the coil. The hooked part that redirects the ball slides into a long metal jacket. At the bottom, it comes out and is attached by two hex screw nuts to a pawl that is turned by the piston that goes into the coil. The metal sleeve keeps the assembly from flying all over the damn place due to the play between the pawl and plunger linkage when it's activated.
 
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