Williams EM Three Bar Chime

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I have a 72 Williams Travel Time and the chimes don't work. A couple of the plungers are missing and the one that is present is stuck in the coil. Also one of the chime bars I found in the bottom of the cabinet in three pieces. I see I can get all of the replacement parts from PB Resource but I don't want to replace everything to just have the same problem again. Is this a common problem for the EM's or is there something I should look for that would cause the coils to go out?
 
The coil with the stuck plunger probably had a stuck switch on the playfield causing the chime coil to stay energized.

Some operators removed plungers from the chime box to "quiet" down the machine. Some operators even went so far as to remove the chimebox assembly altogether from the machine.
 
Missing chime parts can be purchased from Steve Young at The Pinball Resource. He has always had the parts I needed when repairing chimes.
 
Like Ken said, look on the schematics and see where the chime coils are listed on the schematics. Once you find them, work backwards through the line and see what switches close to make them work. You'll see two lines with space between them, that meens it's a normally open switch... when it connects, power runs through them. It'll probably be just different targets and things on the playfield, if one's stuck like Ken said it'll do that.

The other easy way to do it is, buy the stuff, hook it up, turn it on, and see if any of them immediately sound. If they do, something's stuck closed, turn it back off quickly and find what it was. If you leave it on for 10 seconds or so it may burn the coil up.

Then like Oryk said you can get them from Steve.
 
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