Pin maintenance day

[Monkeyboypaul]

Spending a few hours doing the pin-jobs that have been building up over the last few months… it’s also a good way to navigate a bad hangover. My pinball mojo has been a bit lacking in the last year or so, mainly because I couldn’t get to them easily and work took over, not to mention ongoing building work at home. Hopefully it’s on the up again now



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Fixing a dead fish topper, replacing ‘RGB’ led with a dead ‘R’, working out why my Met GI flickers, and replacing a seized flipper coil on Roadshow. I might finally get around to levelling them properly too, there’s nowt worse than wonky pins.

 

[Andydn]

The GI flicker on my Metallica just needed the wire in the IDC connector to be manipulated (shoved hard) with an IDC tool - issue was just poor connection. Can’t remember where the connector was but if you get stuck I can have a look on mine and report back

 

[Monkeyboypaul]

Looks like the connector has cooked a bit, read elsewhere it should be a different type as this is quite common. Vaguely recall my old TWD LE having a beefier cable for this. I could just redo it but I don’t have the right connector here.