My GOTLE flippers seem to have a much smoother "Bally/Williams" kind of feel to them than my Munsters Pro flippers. On Munsters the flippers feel more clunky and stiff. Did anything change from Spike to Spike 2 with flipper design?
As far as I'm aware they haven't changed hardware since the DE/Sega days. As crunch said I would check the coil stops.
Have they been that way since day one? I've read of a lot of flipper coil stops in newer Stern's being problematic. You may want to try replacing them.
Yes, they've always had that feel. The flippers on Munsters work just fine, they just feel kind of stiff. The only other modern Stern I own to compare them with is an Aerosmith Pro, and I think the flippers on that game as far as feel are somewhere between my Munsters and my GOTLE. Could just be differences in age of game, or the particular game... not sure. But there is definitely a big difference in feel. I'll look into the coil stop suggestion, though they're not sticky like you might see with coil stop mushrooming.
Quoted from Magicman:Have they been that way since day one? I've read of a lot of flipper coil stops in newer Stern's being problematic. You may want to try replacing them.
Yes, they've always had that feel. The flippers on Munsters work just fine, they just feel kind of stiff. The only other modern Stern I own to compare them with is an Aerosmith Pro, and I think the flippers on that game as far as feel are somewhere between my Munsters and my GOTLE. Could just be differences in age of game, or the particular game... not sure. But there is definitely a big difference in feel. I'll look into the coil stop suggestion, though they're not sticky like you might see with coil stop mushrooming.
Like Ken said, they don't mushroom, they just disintegrate. Dust and metal shavings everywhere, it may be enough to make your flippers feel off.
Quoted from zacaj:Only thing I know of is that WWE had hold windings, but then they stopped doing that end went back to the older methods.
some spike 1 games had the coin door switch as well the last few spike 2 games.
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