I had my Captain Fantastic working fairly well except for the upper flippers not working, so I ordered parts and completely rebuilt one of them. When I put everything back together initially, lots of lights and sounds started cycling, so I turned it off to look for anything obvious. I found nothing I could determine to be the culprit. I was a bit downcast had other commitments, so walked away from the machine for a couple of months.

Yesterday I started it up to get back to work on it and now the lights come on the playfield and back glass, but nothing else happens when I push the start button - there are 14 credits available. The three fuses on the side panel and the one in the bottom well are all intact.

When replacing the flipper assembly I removed the playfield and laid it upside down on long table, but I don't think this caused any damage (if this was not advisable is there something in particular I can look for from doing this?). I was very careful to solder the flipper wires back exactly the way they were and to connect everything back up correctly. I am thinking I may have bent a switch or maybe disconnected something, but am a loss to find it.

Please let me know where I can start to determine what the issue is. I don't remember exactly what was cycling thru on the first start up, but now there is just nothing when pushing the new game button.

Thanks in advance,

Bill

When switch is turned on, playfield and back glass lights come on; nothing happens when quarter is inserted, i.e., credit doesn't advance, nor when player button is pressed - dead silence

Will be trying these suggestions this weekend, thank you!

Some temporary success! Turned the score motor cam to what appeared to be a home position (I am kinda new to this and guessing at a lot of it) and pressed the reset button and the game reset, so I ran a ball thru - the bumpers and rollovers were scoring, but then after sending the ball back up with the flippers everything except the lighting went dead again.
While I was overjoyed and wanted to keep working, the wife was asleep in the adjacent room, so let it rest for the night. I don't know if my YES! yell or the machine sounds woke her up, but best for my health to wait to fight another day.
Will try same again tomorrow - Thank You!

i got her 3M Skull Screws, but she won't drill 'em in far enough

Will clean & adjust that switch, but, have an update - when reset after putting the cam motor in a start position, the flippers don't work and only some of the bumpers and rollovers work: the three top lane switches work, but the bonus doesn't advance;
the two rollovers on top work, but the side ones don't;
the targets both work;
the three center pop bumpers don't work;
the rollover switches for the right return and out lanes work, but the ones on the left don't
Note that the very first time I reset after manually turning the start motor cam, the flippers worked a couple of times, but since then none of them work at all and if i turn the machine off, i have to reset the start motor cam each time to get it to reset
When resetting, there is only one sound, not a series of sounds as if everything is resetting like it used to when it was functional

Update: out of the blue with me doing nothing (not intentionally at least), the flippers are now working.
However, the kicker does not send the ball out of the outhole and I still have to turn the score motor cam manually to get a reset.

I have previously cleaned the plugs and sockets, but will take another look and reseat them since I had disconnected them when I removed the playfield to work on the flipper. Thanks!