APB_Enterprises posts here on Pinside. He winds coils. Shoot him a PM and see if he knows.

LTG : )

I had no clue you could rewind coils. Guess it’s a good thing I’ve always saved my spare fried coils! Maybe there’s some use to them after all!

If she contacts him I would ask him if you could use something like this as a suitable replacement (not sure, but it’s only off by 2 and same amount if winds).
Or perhaps buy this and have it wound with the proper gauge wire.

A few of the normal suppliers list the exact replacement, but all say out of stock.

https://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/L-26-500

I've found coils, especially these smaller ones, to have a lot more flexibility than people think. I've replaced coils like those in a Chicago Coin Bowler with Gottlieb and Williams coils that were the same size physically but different gauge and wire length. There's leeway in both directions, so if they are reasonably close they will probably work.

However I've never tried it on coils that hold a long time (like a lock coil). They might require closer matching. It looks like this Game Over coil probably holds for long periods, so YMMV.

On the other hand their original winding didn't exactly fare too well either.

Maybe if another coil with same dimensions, but different winding could be found more easily than the 28-500, you could remove old winding from it and then rewind with 500 turns of #28 wire.

Hi CarrieZ
Yeah, there’s a number of us that cross over the various coin operated game genres so you will probably see a few familiar faces here.
Glad to see your fixing up some old EM games. That’s stuff is the grass roots of the arcade hobby and there’s no where near enough of it left in the world.
Also very few places left where people can go play that kind of stuff.
Looks like you took on a really neat one there.
I played one that was a similar concept as far as gameplay at the Pinball hall of fame that was Base Ball themed. Really fun and interesting stuff that needs to be preserved.

I wouldn't use that again. Just use another coil with the same frame size and approximately resistance and you should be fine.

I'm an EM newbie, what does this bobbin/coil do in the game? It's not a solenoid, right?

It's the shell for containing the winding for a solenoid/coil.

Yes it is. Instead of pullung a plunger though the coil, it pulls a metal plate to the top where those two metal things are sticking up on top.

LTG : )

Well if we want to get really picky a solenoid is generally much longer than it is in diameter which doesn't describe a whole lot of coils in a game. For pinball purposes most people think a solenoid pulls in a plunger and a coil does the job on relays with no plunger.

That is of course, as I said, being picky...