I'm sure this has been discussed elsewhere but I have been unable to find it on Pinside.

I recently started routing a Hobbit and ended up recently with two errors on the Orc. First one was that I had was a wire binding up and physically keeping the Orc from popping up. That was a pretty easy fix once I lifted the playfield and inspected. The next is that the Orc hit-switch still will not register. The switch is not stuck closed and all the connections on the switch and diode look fine in appearance. As I had to get back to my day job, I simply disabled the Orc for now so the game will still be playable.

Any thoughts and suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks,

Darin

yep. cut wire. didn't see it at first. doesn't look like there is enough slack to fix without removing the entire mech. Is there a video or photo instructions on how to do that?

On a related note, somehow when I was putting the playfield back down I think it ended up somehow disconnecting the switch from the start button. The LED in there was fairly loose and was not lighting up but for the life of me I couldn't get the switch reconnected back. I felt like an idiot on that but I have never had to mess with a start button before. Any help on that is appreciated as well.

Thanks for the input. Probably will try this tomorrow. Any thoughts on how to make sure you don’t lose the clips?

I’m sure I can get this fixed but the funny thing I’m as perplexed about the stupid start button now as for the life of me I couldn’t figure out how to snap the switch back on the button.

Got 'em both fixed. Thanks! Start switch got a little out of whack and once righted it snapped right in.

Removed the mech pretty easily and repaired the wire. Up and running again.

And, btw, LTG you were right. Hobbit is doing very well on location. Thanks for the input before when I was considering doing this.