There's an issue with the bottom right flipper on my Getaway. It appears to work fine when you use it when the ball isn't in play, but when you actually make a shot the power is almost non-existent. The upper flipper works fine. If I try to hold the flipper while I actuate it, I can feel it working but it can't even raise the flipper from its rest position. I've changed the coil with no difference.

I got the game as a project and it had the same problem at that time. I rebuilt the game and the flippers about a year ago and the problem went away. Only recently it has come back.

Any ideas?

I'll ground the solenoid tomorrow and see how "snappy" it is.

No optos, older style leaf switches

I wonder if I've found the problem. See attached photos.

There are four leads on the right flipper leaf switch, but only three are wired. The orange wire has some insulation stripped away and I wonder if it was connected to the fourth lead that has no wire. The manual doesn't specifically show the wiring of the leaf switch, and I can't find any other reference photos.

Can someone take a picture of their leaf switch and send it to me; I'm sure any early 90's leaf switch with multiple flippers would be the same too.

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By both switches do you mean left and right sides of the cabinet, because there is an orange wire on the left flipper switch too?

Or do you mean the stripped section of the orange wire should be attached to the lead with no wire?

I'm confused because the replacement part from Marco only has three leads, not four.

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Looks like I got it figured out. Cut all the old soldered connections, cleaned them up and redid them correctly per directions here and it looks like its back up and working again.

Thanks everyone.

Well, I need to resurrect this thread again. I'm continuing to have issues with the right flippers and it has me baffled.

With the flipper switch in my hand, I touch the first two leafs together and the bottom flipper fires no problem and you can hold the flipper no problem. I touch the second two leafs together and the upper flipper fires no problem and you can hold the flipper no problem.

If I touch all three leafs together at the same time, the neither flipper hardly fires and they won't hold. What's more, when I do this the DMD is scrambled briefly until I release the leafs.

Anyone have any new ideas?

Have since sold the machine, including the flipper issue - never did get it resolved.

Good luck to the new owner - he has some very capable technical help locally so I'm certain the issue will be resolved soon.