*EDIT* Solution in post 3

Hello all,

As I've been poking around my Diner I noticed that the Diverter does not seem to be working right. What I believe is supposed to happen is that during a new game the diverter will pull the arm "up" so that your right ramp shot criss-crosses to the left flipper. Then consecutive shots spell DINER wherein the diverter will pull the arm "down" to make the cup shot for a bonus.

It seems that my diverter only likes to stay down, so that I am always hitting the cup shot. If I manually move the arm up it will move down as it should when I make the necessary 5 shots, but will not move up on its own.

I went into test mode to test the diverter and the coil will fire the arm down, but it never goes back up, I'm not totally sure how it is mechanically or electrically supposed to go up either. The only thing I noticed was that the coil used is an AE-26-1500 instead of 1200.

Thanks for any help

Thanks Buck.

I actually just solved the issue. I was poking around there before but didn't have the time to take anything apart. I went in there and loosened that set screw which loosened up the coil and the assembly. I think something must have been too tight because the coil wanted to move up after everything was loosened up. So I put it back together and all is well now! The coil stays up and pulls down successfully when it should.

I always love that whenever I do a big fix/clean on my game that I am rewarded with a high score. I managed to put away 9M right afterwards. Not a huge score but given that half the rules were blocked to me up to this point on account of the diverter and I don't know them all yet I think that is okay.

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