How to optimise these target switches?

[cooldan]

Hi guys. These target switches seem pretty hard to register, you need to hit them really hard to close the switch. Advice please.

I’ve dropped them below the playfield and may have to resolder any wires that drop off (I’d rather not remove them from the game, but do it in-situ), but primarily I want to clean them up, get the gap distances ‘perfect’ so they are sensitive but don’t go off just from vibrations nearby, and maybe new foam?

It’s these old fashioned club sandwich type switches from a System 11

 

[Fantazia2]

Kind of looks like the foam is way too thick for the target to go back and hit the leaf.

Im no expert but I would say the target and the leaf behind it need bending further out so there is actually enough tavrl for it to hit, or trim down the foam thickness to do the same.

 

[cooldan]

i agree the foam looks a bit crap, but there's got to be more to it than that, i think the switch needs adjusting or bending somehow? i have one of these things, is it useful here?

 

[Andydn]

Bend the switch away from the foam by a couple of mm (green on pic below)
Next bend the shorter, stiffer part that runs up the back of the part the switch touches when hit so the gap is about 2mm (red on pic below)

That tool you have is for sliding inbetween the part you want to bend and twisting slightly to get the bend - the often break though.

 

[cooldan]

Bend the switch away from the foam by a couple of mm (green on pic below)
Next bend the shorter, stiffer part that runs up the back of the part the switch touches when hit so the gap is about 2mm (red on pic below)

That tool you have is for sliding inbetween the part you want to bend and twisting slightly to get the bend - the often break though.

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fantastic, this is exactly the detail i needed, much appreciated.

your dog looks funky, what's his/her name?
i miss my dog, Yoshi (a Hungarian Puli) but i am looking after my neighbour's dog Lucy (an Africanis) for a couple of weeks and very much enjoying it. i don't think i want to give her back!

 

[JT.]

fantastic, this is exactly the detail i needed, much appreciated.

your dog looks funky, what's his/her name?
i miss my dog, Yoshi (a Hungarian Puli) but i am looking after my neighbour's dog Lucy (an Africanis) for a couple of weeks and very much enjoying it. i don't think i want to give her back!

Is that a bronze bust of Neil you've had commissioned on the shelf behind you?

 

[Andydn]

fantastic, this is exactly the detail i needed, much appreciated.

your dog looks funky, what's his/her name?
i miss my dog, Yoshi (a Hungarian Puli) but i am looking after my neighbour's dog Lucy (an Africanis) for a couple of weeks and very much enjoying it. i don't think i want to give her back!

That’s Ralph!

 

[cooldan]

Is that a bronze bust of Neil you've had commissioned on the shelf behind you?

That’s “Creech”, Gill-Man from the film and pinball machine. This person you speak of takes up no space in my head, he is irrelevant. I’ve not met a single person who has a good thing to say about it.

 

[cooldan]

That’s Ralph!

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Fuc_king hell, his coc_k goes down to his knees! I wish mine did.

 

[Paul R Owen]

Fuc_king hell, his coc_k goes down to his knees! I wish mine did.

Fortunately, it's not the length of your pencil that matters..... It's the quality of the drawings .