This is a Captain Fantastic Player Up Unit.

Backstory: It's my first machine and it's got mad issues as I bought it from a little old lady (95) who hadn't played it in years. Everything is gummed up. I've read though the pinrepair.com documents which were great. I have the two EM Repair DVDs on order and look forward to learning more.

With that said I'm really wanting to get started but I don't want to make things worse. Hoping the DVDs have a good visual deep dive. I've seen some good score reel and flipper rebuilds on YouTube but I can't seem to dig up a stepper unit rebuild (one with a spider).

Here's the video of the unit not working.

Questions:

1. Do I have to take it all the way off the back box to rebuild or leave it hanging like a score reel? Seems to be a lot of wires but those coils are way back there.

2. Do you ever lube the PCB that the spider spins on? Should the spring on the other side be enough to move it?

3. It seems like I just need to rebuild the coils like I would for the flippers. Maybe a little Super Lube on the metal to metal. Anything else I'm missing?

Thanks

_{Post edited by coop: Proper YouTube link}

Thanks for the leg-up catboxer. Looks like the work day is over so time to jump in the garage and tinker!

I'm such a noob. So I took the spider off and sanded the PCB with 600 grit and alcohol; wiped it down; put a very very thin layer of Super Lube on the PCB and then put the spider back on. That was all it needed! It worked perfect… until I turned the game on. Now I have this.

Sigh…

I figured I must have wiggled a wire and crossed something over but after 20 minutes I couldn't find anything weird. I'm not even sure what the process is to trace something like this down.

EDIT: I just watched that video and I actually did exactly like that video even though I hadn't seen it first.

catboxer, if there was a button on this site that would automatically send a free beer to your house, I would push it.

I'm back in action! That was exactly the problem. Gonna move on to the score reels next.

Thanks! Coop