Simpsons, The
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Did you run a qtip with some simple green (or another cleaning agent) on it through the blue pawl where the rod runs through? And also clean the plunger. I've seen those so gunked up that it impedes the coils motion. Also, if you haven't, clean that long black rod too that spans the assembly. It gets gummed up.
In other words, reclean things. I think that's your issue here.
Quoted from JDD:I had this problem and I just stretched the springs slightly.Reduce the tension in each spring and the whole thing becomes easier for the coil to lift.Stretch too much and the targets don't drop reliably. So be careful.
This did work for me. Although there may be a better way. ?This only surfaced for me after I bought all new springs.The old ones worked fine and were not as strong.So there really was only one fix in my case.
My thoughts are this isnt a spring issue. They should be tight the way they come from the factory. I wouldn't go stretching them.
REclean the assembly parts focusing on the ones I mentioned in my last post.
Plunger
Blue gasket/pawl
steel rod
Use like Simple aGreen or the like
Dumb question, but does it lift all 5 in test mode?
I guess I'm wondering if there is a reason all 5 should stay down during a game....
ANother dumb question: does it matter which targets are down when it works? Or is it totally random?
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