Hi all

I have a Williams Fantastic with a annoying gremlin. Sometimes it plays perfect other times it acts like it’s possessed.

Fantastic has a “roulette“ spinner in the play field.

I do have the manual and I have poured an embarrassing amount of hours into this game and cannot fix this issue

When the game acts possessed, it does one of two things:

(A)
-Ball goes in one of the three saucers (doesn’t matter which) causing the wheel to spin. It always spins, no issue there.
-spinner never stops spinning.
You have to power the game off and start over. SomeTimes when you do this-the game will go back to acting perfect and playing fine. Other times this gremlin remains
(B)
-Ball goes into one of the three saucers (doesn’t matter which) causing the wheel to spin
-The three eject coils for the three saucers fire - ejecting the ball. This occurs while the spinner is still spinning, and because of that the appropriate bonus on the spinner does not award.

When scenario B is occurring, there is a secondary gremlin. Anytime one of the four rollovers (2 for advance bonus 2 for 50pts) is
Hit/Closed, the 3 saucer eject coils fire. Again - this error only occurs during scenario “B”

I have traced and traced and traced until I can’t see straight.

Any thoughts?

Ball never has a chance to land - because spinner never stops......if ball was landing, but not awarding bonus I would think that’s a possibility

Resolved:

Thanks for your help & suggestions anyone.

The issue was with the bonus unit. Everything looked ok BUT it wasn’t....when the bonus unit was in zero position, game plays fine. However - as soon as the bonus unit advances the issues arise.

I found that one of the wipers was just skating over the board, ever so slightly. The gap was about the thickness of a piece of paper. And since the game was reset (putting the wiper in question at zero) every time i started hunting - I never could have seen the lack of contact.

By a stroke of luck I switched the unit off mid game - leaving the wiper in an advanced position. And under further inspection with a light I could see the gap. Wiper adjusted, 20 games later - all is good

Thanks again!!

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