Work
Took reel out, wiggled things a bit, put it back in, now works, at least for a game. Not sure why it’s better. If it happens again, it’s worth digging in to see what can get out of alignment. It may be the sign of a worn component on this reel.
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Realigned the score reel mechanism itself; but now the wheel needs to be adjusted vertically
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Leveled playfield.
Problem
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Task
One playfield illumination bulb lamp (under a bumper) is out. Replace when machine is being worked on for something more major
Work
- Same problem again with the kickout not happening. The score motor was once again not advancing all the way on one half of the wheel. Adjusted the second-from-top switch to be just right. But it’s a narrow range between spinning forever and not going far enough. If this happens again worth asking on internet forums for ideas. Maybe the disc isn’t quite right? Maybe there’s some other mysterious score motor adjustment?
- Had problems with the drop targets not popping up at the start of a new game. Spent a long time looking at it and we’re not totally sure they should.
Work
- symptom is that when the ball ends up in the bottom trough it doesn’t cycle to the next ball and kick it out
- That seems familiar. How did I solve it before?
- It was adjusting the score motor wheel:
- We got the weird behavior where the ball eject wouldn’t work to happen again. It was fine to start but got worse over time. We traced it to the score motor, index wheel, switch A, which gives power to the outhole switch that in turn triggers the end of ball cycle. It was finicky because it depended on exactly how far the score motor wheel advanced, and one of the two notches was more prone to cause trouble. Adjusting the switch leaf appears to have fixed it. - I bent the switch just a bit more and it seems better.
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