Escape from the Lost World
Bally, 1987I picked a EFLW and having an issue with the upper right flipper. Its not working at all. The other 3 work fine. I rebuilt everything but still nothing. It looks like someone hacked the wires on the lower right as well as the upper right. Can someone provide pics of both flippers so i can try to piece together the proper way they go? Im not sure what they were doing but its a mess. Thanks
Do you happen to havea pic of the lower right as well? That should be where the power is coming from I want to make sure thats wired right as well. Thanks alot for the first pic.
Not a problem, I’m in process of replacing a lot of the leaf switches on the flippers as well. The upper left flipper had a lot of flop and was inconsistent for my shots. I replaced the coil, leaf switch & some of the flipper hardware only to find that the lower left leaf switch was the issue all along. I’ve attached both for reference. The flipper mech with the new leaf is the lower left flipper.
F81E99DC-A32B-4B3D-8B49-F3C9F975A96F (resized).jpeg778680F2-D0F2-4EAF-9560-9A1D9D96FA50 (resized).jpegMy wiring was different from yours but i changed them to match. Now its weird. If i press the right flipper, the lower goes up but not the top. If i hold down the right flipper button and press the left button the upper right flipper will go up and stay up as long as the right flipper button is held. Im stumped. Is there a flipper board? Could it be bad? Anyone have a clue?
Fixed!! The wires going from the leaf switch were backwards. I switched them and now I’m in business
Hi Guys -- I just got my first game from a family friend and it is EFLW. Upon getting it to my house I noticed the upper right flipper is missing! rendering 1/3 of the game useless. The other 3 all work fine. I am a complete newbie at this, but I opened up the machine and saw that in addition to the flipper being removed, the wires were cut from the coil! Why would someone do that!?! It also look like it is missing the Return Spring and the Side Lever Assembly.
I guess my first question is, is this repairable? It looks like the wires have very little additional slack on them. If it is repairable a couple questions
1) Do I need to buy a complete Flipper Rebuild Kit?
2) Do i need to buy a new coil as well? Or should I just do it to be safe?
3) There is minimal slack available on these cut wires if I am going to re-attached. Can I buy additional wire to extend them and if so is it all just standard copper wire?
3) Finally -- Which wires do I solder to each Diode if I am going to put this back? I am very nervous i am going to short the machine and be in way over my head if I do this wrong. I tried to color code arrows to make it easier for you all to advise which wires go where. I think it should go
A) YELLOW CIRCLE WIRES to WHITE CIRCLE diode
B) Reconnect the wires in the BLUE RECTANGLE
C) ORANGE CIRCLE to PURPLE CIRCLE?
See the attached picture
I really appreciate all of your help!
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