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F14 Tomcat Owners Club Fans Also Welcome.

By Hellfire

10 years ago


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#5126 1 year ago

Just joined the F-14 owners club!

Right now I'm going through my machine and have identified various little issues:

-Flippers are kind of sloppy and wobble a lot on the upper playfield when they get hit by the ball. Likely need to be adjusted, or rebuilt.
-Pop bumper is kind of weak with the triggering, not sure if that's just dirty contacts or the pop bumper needs to be rebuilt.
-The diverters for the ball is kind of wonky/stiff, and sometimes doesn't properly divert. For example, one diverter will pop out, but then be very slow to return when the ball comes up to divert. Is it just dirty?
-Slingshots are okay, but not super strong.
-One of the ball gates (the right side one) on the upper playfield is not preventing the ball from going in.
-The middle beacon appears bent, and I haven't seen them spin or work yet, both lights and the motor.

#5135 1 year ago
Quoted from clempo:

The weak pop bumper is common. I rebuilt mine and it was still too weak for my taste. I ended up installing two springs instead of one and that finally did it for me.

Maybe this is simpler than I'm thinking, but how do you install two springs together for the pop bumper? Wouldn't they intertwine and get hung up on each other?

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#5166 1 year ago

Anyone know where I can find these spacers for the beacon motor assembly? Mine is completely missing them. I have an old prototype version similar to the picture from Joe's Classic Video Games.

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#5352 1 year ago

Does anyone know if these spacers and machine screws sold by Tilted Pinball would work on the prototype motors that were in the early versions of F-14? The motor on mine has three screw mounts instead of two, and it was missing one screw while the others were the wrong size. It also had no spacers, which was throwing it off balance and grinding the light against the beacon.

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