Quoted from rotordave:Yep. As Vid said, maybe just a bad coil, but I've not encountered that myself.
I'd play a 5 minute game with a heap of cradling, and see if the coils are hot after that. They shouldn't be.
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I have to replace one tonight. When too much cradling was done the flipper started sticking up. Saturday night I pulled the flipper mech apart expecting a mushroomed / magnetized coil stop but found the coil sleeve was very difficult to remove. So it seem some insulation is cracked inside the coil causing a short. Not enough to blow a fuse, but shortens the winding enough to generate some heat.
Westwood, NJ
