The Flip

Location changed: Museum → Workshop

Closed problem report

Closed Problem: Verified through continuity testing but start button is permanently closed. Tried desoldering various connections that seemed out of place but made no difference. Also desoldered yellow and blue wire (yellow connected to start) from coin door to jump them together, unsure if made difference because start button is shorted. First photo points to odd wire that shorts a connection, it has been put back how it was found. Other two photos pertain to wire connection that was reliant on coin insert, desoldered both from connection shown and jumpered together

Closed problem report

Closed Problem: It shocked Storie & Oliver and we don't really know why so now the three of us are kinda afraid to touch the replay button.

Closed problem report

William and Brian checked the circuit diagram. The coin door mechanism is not on the important path. For now, the wires are loose (no longer jumpered) inside the machine. They are protected with electrical tape but need more permanent protection because the yellow is 120V hot all the time

Closed Problem: Verified through continuity testing but start button is permanently closed. Tried desoldering various connections that seemed out of place but made no difference. Also desoldered yellow and blue wire (yellow connected to start) from coin door to jump them together, unsure if made difference because start button is shorted. First photo points to odd wire that shorts a connection, it has been put back how it was found. Other two photos pertain to wire connection that was reliant on coin insert, desoldered both from connection shown and jumpered together

William and Brian added extra insulation with Fish Paper, a product designed for handling this exact problem.

Closed Problem: It shocked Storie & Oliver and we don't really know why so now the three of us are kinda afraid to touch the replay button.

Problem One: The door is shocking people. There is some short that is causing the metal on the replay button/door to be live.

Problem 2: Still not starting right. The Replay button doesn’t seem to be doing anything. And when it does happen to initiate something, the S/Q relay is not latching/unlatching consistently and there is continuous motor movement.

Soldering Work: The yellow wire looked suspicious, and it just fell off one of the contacts when touched. Oliver resoldered the Yellow Wire and soldered the middle to clean it up. Didn’t solve the shocking issue.

Switch work: Oliver closed the Coin Door switch (making it normally closed) to see if that helped the start button do something. It didn’t.

Fuse Replacement: The 10amp Lightbox fuse blew at some point during all this. It was replaced.

Rotated wheel by hand, added second ball that was sitting in cabinet. Note: ball start is its own pushrod. Game seems OK

Closed Problem: Constant buzzing. Can’t start a game.

Status changed: Good → Broken

Closed problem report

Closed Problem: Refuses to start again