I am a new owner for two month now and have no previous experience with repairing pinball machines. However I have started my learning curve and have adjusted the opto in order to engage magnet on Thing on my The Addams Family machine - first little victory, YEAH.

That lead to another problem now. From Thing, ball goes perfectly in box and activates switch all right. And the kicker fires to - but not strong enough to kick ball to Swamp kickout. The result is ball rolling back, resulting in kicker firing repeatedly.

I have tightened kicker with no effect. now I need a lifeline. What to check/do next.

I have attached picture of actual kicker - and though welding from previous owners are a bit messy, it is not broke anywhere

TAF kicker - Thing (resized).jpg

Thank you all - @dmacy, GLSP3022 and Travish - you have been very helpful. I agree it is a mess and there is a lot to replace here. For now I found the reason when I disassembled the plunger. It turned out that he nylon was broken off the plunger.

And I guess earlier repairjobs has been a bit sloppy, since I found that it clearly has been broken earlier and glued back on.

So step 1 is to order a new plunger at bestofpinball.com - and then step 2 when I give my full focus to a more thorough round 2.

TAF plunger Thing kickout (resized).jpg