Just went into town to print up some of agodfreys cards at Walgreens from post # 747. Got in the van, started it up, then opened up the envelope to take a look at the cards to see how they turned out. What song should come on 80's on 8? Kenny Loggins "Danger Zone". Just was a cool flashback moment.

Btw the cards look pretty awesome. Looking forward to trimming them up and putting them in my F-14 when I get back home.

Probably the best 82 cents I ever spent on a pin. Mr. Loggins would most likely agree.

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Nope, just trimmed them to size and put them in. Works just fine as they are on good photo grade paper. I would have put the clear plastic over them, but mine are a little discolored, so it looks way better without it.

Shopping my F-14 now. Looking for a couple of plastics.
1. 554-22 LITES FLYBY------down by flippers
2. 554-12-----has 3 cutouts for red-white-and blue flashers
If you have some of the various clear ones that are not yellowed too bad available, let me know the plastic # and price.

PM me with what you have and price including shipping to 55973

That could be any number of things or any combination of those things. Here are a few of the power robbers that I have seen.
1. Damaged and worn out plungers with mushroomed out ends rubbing in the coil sleeves. Also the coil stops get that way to the point of being hard to get out of the coil.
2. Burnt EOS switches and flipper cabinet switches as well. This resistance can cause a voltage loss and reduce the performance of the flippers.
3. Conical return springs (if you rig still has them) can be weak, broken, or just damaging the flipper link because they are a lousy design.
4. Flipper bushings can be worn (egg shaped bore) even very slightly, causing poor performance.
5. Coils can be breaking down internally and causing weakness.

Everything here is covered very well in vid1900's flipper rebuild thread. Esp. the first several pages. Read and re-read it. Then give it a try. It's not too hard to do with that info. If you run into trouble, just post it to the thread, and you will get help from pinsiders..Good luck

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/f-14-tomcat-under-playfield-picture-needed

Looks nice, is it restored like she said or just a 5 year old shop out? At any rate it is a great looking F-14

I am back in this club! Happy to have a nice F-14 to play again. Might not be forever, as the local pinsider and friend of mine has a buy back option at 6 months. While in my possession it gets a Dozer1 flipper rebuild and a few other tweaks as per the deal. For the time being, I am back to battling jagov