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Quoted from ThatOneDude:I hate to ask the most obvious questions, but I will.
1) did you put the ball back in?
2) did you add credits?
IT WAS CREDITS! Hahahaha. Flippers are weak, drop targets don’t work and one of the pops is weak. Hoping to learn how to fix these issues!
Quoted from dozer1:Did you buy your Gorgar from a collector - hobbyist or is it fresh out of a house that had owned it for many years? Those early solid state pinballs can require a lot of "bulletproofing" to make them reliable. If a pinhead owned it for a while, lots of that is probably done. If from a house of many years, maybe not done.
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/gorgar-gorgar-gorgar-ect-ect
It was from a house that had for many years 
Quoted from frunch:Disagree, they may not be as powerful as modern flippers but with a proper rebuild and good connectors, switches, etc, they should have ample power. I've played a couple Gorgars that had strong enough flippers to make them fast and challenging.
If anything, perhaps a video would help us determine what OP means by weak flippers.
Also, could you post some pics of the boards in the backbox, Steveoshoots?
Here are some photos - trying to figure out how to upload a video for you. So now when I turn the machine on I get 1496....until I open coin door and turn off/on 3 times. Then I can play it. For a minute there, Gorgar voice wasn't working either. Completely silent. Now he's talking again.
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If anything, perhaps a video would help us determine what OP means by weak flippers.
Also, could you post some pics of the boards in the backbox, Steveoshoots?
here are some more pictures
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lowbeau67 you are correct! I found it in the bottom, the plate has broken in half. Think I can fix? Or should i just order a replacement.
ALSO ALSO! I fixed the 1496. The right battery wasn’t making a connection-someone Soldered the top part, I simply just removed the battery and bent that metal part down so it would touch the battery. And replaced batteries.
E3E70123-DC10-4938-9CA1-B392E1A79C6E (resized).jpegQuoted from boscokid:There is a potentiometer on the left side of the soundboard (upper right board in the backbox) that mixes speech and sound.
As a test, turn the game on and turn pot all the way clockwise and see if you get no sounds at all or the Gorgar heart beat. If you get the beat then set that pot to about its mid-point and you would get both sounds.
boscokid So I did that, and all the way right I got NO sounds. I tried that test button too and it only cycled through Gorgar speech. help! haha
Quoted from Enaud:It looks like from the picture of the sound board that DS1 dip switches are both on. These control sound and speech. Did you try setting them to off and then back to on? Could be an in-between state? Just something to try. Flip them to the right and then back to the left to make sure the dip switch is set.
Good luck.
Good catch Enaud but this wasn't the fix unfortunately
Quoted from mof:What was the sound like at the seller's house?
-mof
mof - speech only, no sound effects.
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