TECH: Mousin' Around Left Flipper Problem

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Solved... I think. Thanks go out to Fred Kemper and Otto and any others who
replied that I didn't see (I lost Internet access a couple weeks ago and just
got it back).

They suggested that the problem was with the EOS switch but I refused to
believe it since I had checked it MANY, MANY times. After exhausting coil
homing, voltages, wiring, etc., I had to go back to the EOS.

Freakiest problem I've encountered! The blade that the crank pawl pushes
away to open the points had a hairline crack right at the point that it joins
the formed plastic housing and left the points open by a gnats ass or .0001
whichever is smaller... to my old eyes, too small to see but no high voltage
was passing.

While removing it the blade just fell off, confirming the "hairline" crack

Trying to find one locally but will probably have to order one. will let you
know how it turns out.
--
Ron -- CARGPB7
ronstr@asisnotapplicable.com (change not applicable to na)

 

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Ron Strom <SeeMySig@nowhere.net> wrote in
news:MPG.1d6d522d21a331c0989685@news.sisna.com:

> Solved... I think. Thanks go out to Fred Kemper and Otto and any
> others who replied that I didn't see (I lost Internet access a couple
> weeks ago and just got it back).
>
> They suggested that the problem was with the EOS switch but I refused
> to believe it since I had checked it MANY, MANY times. After
> exhausting coil homing, voltages, wiring, etc., I had to go back to
> the EOS.
>
> Freakiest problem I've encountered! The blade that the crank pawl
> pushes away to open the points had a hairline crack right at the point
> that it joins the formed plastic housing and left the points open by a
> gnats ass or .0001 whichever is smaller... to my old eyes, too small
> to see but no high voltage was passing.
>
> While removing it the blade just fell off, confirming the "hairline"
> crack
>
> Trying to find one locally but will probably have to order one. will
> let you know how it turns out.

If it makes you feel any better, that happened to me once. While the
game was at expo!

(If you google back for a story about me splicing together Kerry Stair's
extension cord, that was the reason I was splicing it together!)