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New Elvira owner here. Was correcting the VUK on my machine with the Stern fix (which seems to be working well now) and found these three small loose screws laying in the very back of the cabinet. One fell out as I was lowering the playfield to test the VUK. It was late and I didn't have a chance to try to see where they came from, but I assume it's somewhere near the house/back of the game. Any ideas or thoughts as to where to focus when I get back home?
screws from EHOH (resized).jpgQuoted from DugFreez:Here is my guess:
237-6188-01 Screw, M3x0.5 X 6MM PPH Sems Zinc
They are the small screws that go in the sides of the LCD screen to hold it to the speaker plates.
I suspect they are not from your game, but were dropped down in there when the game was being made. I'm guessing the line worker was holding them in their hand to insert them....oopsie...I dropped them. I'll just grab 3 more from the bin instead of reach down and digging them from inside the cabinet.
I may be wrong, but when I search the Elvira manual for "sems" which is what type of screws those are....that is the only instance of them that I see used in the game. It also come to mind because I had a mystery screw in my Jurassic Park premium when I got it. It is a torx screw....and the only instance of those is the 2 screws to hold the id badge on the front of the speaker panel....and my game had both of them attached. So that told me the mystery torx screw in my cabinet was just a screw that had been dropped in there and not one that had come loose from someplace.
As far as them coming loose from someplace, your instance would seem weird that 3 of the same type of screw would come loose in your game and it not be a common screw type.....so I'm going to guess someone at the factory dropped some bonus hardware in your game for you.
Thanks—after looking at the game tonight, I don’t think they came from my game either. I looked everywhere and couldn’t find anything missing or loose.
Quoted from jtgribble:You might check the bottom of the leaping gargoyles. There are screws like that at the bottom of the metal slides that are loose and need retightened every time I lift the playfield.
Thanks for the suggestions everyone. Did find their home today when I looked again. They were 3 of the 4 screws holding the frame for the House diverter behind the playfield. The remaining one was all left holding it in place.
Quoted from billsfanmd:My diverter stopped working. One of the bottom screws has fallen out twice. Going to use loctite. Thought there were only 2 screws holding it in place though
The motor has two screws, the frame it attaches to has 4. When I first put The missing screws back and tested the mech, it would not move out of the down position. I had to actually loosen up the whole mech just a bit to free it up enough so it wasn’t bound up. Keeping an eye on it.
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