Hello, everyone, Sgt Schultz here. My rescued Q of D is down to just one problem: she won't restart after bob tilting. I find this game extremely challenging with some serious nudging required. Serious nudging, of course, may tilt the game away. Fine. The problem is that when the start button is engaged after a tilt the S relay engages and ...nothing. If I give the score motor a finger boost she starts right up. I would like to end the need to reach inside the cabinet to boost the score motor after tilting a game. I'm already pissed enough. What I can tell you is that after a tilt and pushing the replay button the relay bank containing both the tilt and start relays does not reset although the start relay does trip. When I manually reset (untrip) the tilt relay all is well and start sequence completes. If the problem is that the bank reset solenoid doesn't fire and reset the tilt (and other)relay(s) what's to be done? I've checked and cleaned the tilt relay switches. Seems logical the problem is in the tilt relay. Oh, well. I know nothing. Thanks so much in advance.

Thanks, fellas. The relay bank on QofD is a bit of a bugger to open up. I had to do so to work on other problems and I'll do so again to work on the start, tilt, reset and game over relays. That likely will solve the issue. I was able to clean several accessable start switches and now the 100,000 resets in the sequence. That's progress. I do have the schematic but need to study up on posting the relevant portion if needed.

I remember reading famous last quotes as a kid that a convict named Wood about to go to the electric chair said "You are about to see the effect of electricity on wood". I will try to avoid Mr Wood's fate. Thank you very much, guys.

Jrpinball you nailed it. Thank you. Problem was a start relay make/break wasn't make/breaking. It was very difficult to access and adjust. Found the problem only by giving a little extra push to the relay actuator bar.