I have a Bally flip flop, the white disks do not turn smoothly. I tried to clean the white shafts and then used a teflon based lubricate, but the discs run slowly or not at all. how can I clean them best?
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Springfield, MA
Quoted from currieddog:I guess maybe. I haven't seen one with white disks though. Any rate, papaboni?
You're right. Wrong color for Flip Flop. I have been working on a Williams. They have white score motor cams.
So I'm going with score reels.
Quoted from currieddog:What white disks are you talking about? Maybe a pic?
Oops sorry, newbee here. I mean the white disks in all the stepper units (like coin units en credit units). On YouTube you find a lot of video's about cleaning the copper side, but nobody takes out the white disk on the other side and clean them. And mine are turning slow, even by hand.
You must mean the plastic gear/shaft with the torsion spring on it. If so, sometimes it's just dried out grease on the plastic shaft. Other times the plastic shaft has split and causes a binding condition.
I'm assuming you have carefully removed the copper wiper fingers from the contact rivets side of the stepper and cleaned & re-lubed the contact rivets first, didn't you?
Quoted from KenLayton:I'm assuming you have carefully removed the copper wiper fingers from the contact rivets side of the stepper and cleaned & re-lubed the contact rivets first, didn't you?
I did, but after seeing many YouTube post I think I can do a better job.
I am not with the game right now because its in a family home in France, so I have to wait a few weeks. As I said I am new to this hobby, and its great fun. I am sure the shaft is not split, so when I am at it I will take the whole thing apart (again) and clean and lubricate all the parts.
Thanks
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