Hey guys, joined the club with a POTC - which is actually my first pin! I've had it for a couple weeks now and am having a blast with both playing and repairing/improving the machine. So far, I've done a complete LED conversion, rebuilt all 3 pop bumpers and installed a couple of mods with flipper buttons and pop caps. I'm not that good yet, with a high score of less than 50M at this point... I've read through this entire thread to get some ideas/inspiration as I go forward - what a great community and thank you all!

I do have one question I'm hoping someone could give me some direction on... In the past 2 days, my left sling has started to randomly not work. I've cleaned the two switches and made sure they were adjusted, and I've run switch and coil tests. When running the coil test, the coil ALWAYS fires, and as I said in-game it'll fire maybe 50% of the time. So, before I start taking things apart and throwing parts at it, can one of you guys give me an idea of what I should be looking for first? I'm thinking it may be a bad coil, but wanted to get some input from you guys.

Thanks and excited to be part of the club!

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Thanks for the input! I just tested the switches that way and had intermittent success. It had nothing to do with force/speed the ball hit the switches - so I pulled the playfield up and just moving the wires around a bit got the switch working more consistently. Sounds like I need to re-solder them all? Or something else? Or should I just replace the two switches?

Thanks - I cleaned the leaf switches but am still having intermittent issues. I'm thinking it's a wire - will have to get in there and test it out, and will report back once I've had a chance to do that.

PS - I purchased and installed Maffewls PotC airball deflector mod - and it is OUTSTANDING. Highly recommend!