Well My Hulk’s arms stopped going up again, haven't taken it apart yet but I assume it is the coil wire again. Thinking about running a heavier wire up to the coil this time as I am getting tired of taking it out of the machine as it's about a 2 hour job.

Any other thoughts on how to keep the wire form breaking.

Thanks.

Sounds like a plan. I'll pick up some shrink wrap and give it a try.

Didn't take any the first time. I will try to take some this time and post them.

Plan on tackling it tonight when I get home from work. Also going to see if I can find and real short screw driver as that will make it alot eaiser to get to some of the screrws, not a lot of room to work in there.

Well He is working again for how long we will see. I took a couple of pictures for those who wanted them and I will upload them here in a minute. They are from my phone and don't look to good.

The hardes screws to get to are the two in the bottom of his body I had forgot all about them. If someone knows how to get the thing out with his body attached let me know as I can't get the two screws going into his chest put back in once I have the assembly in the machine.

It looks like it works fine without them but just wondering if someone has a better way.

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Yes it is. I am getting better thou only took me about a hour and a half this time.

Yea I got one today and worked much better, still a pain thou.

That's what I wound up doing. I also put shrink wrap on the wire near the coil and zip tied them to the hole in the coil. Looks like that is what stern did but the red one busted at the zip tie the first time so it was too short to zip tie back on when I put it back together the first time. That may be why it broke again.

No, no issues yet. I didn't replace the whole wire I just spliced a 18 gauge wire to the original and then put some shrink wrap on it, I suck at crimping on those stupid little pins.

I do have a big hammer but I decided not to try to pound the thing back up through the hole, maybe next time cause I will be a little pissed if I have to take it apart again.

As far as I know it shouldn't cause any problems. You shouldn't go the other way however and use a smaller wire on a bigger one, but it all depends on the current being drawen.

My guess is it's the same problem that I am having. The coil isn't bad it's just one of the wires is breaking. Not sure if the coil they are sending you is different than the original or not. But if you are replacing a coil then yes there will be soldering involved no way around it. Even if you aren't going to replace it you will have to solder the wire back on.

The two coils on the bottom that you can get to control his back and forth movement one goes left and one goes right. The coil in his back moves his arms up and down. There is no way to get to the coil without removing the entire bracket as the wires are inside his back.

I send someone here a pm with some simple directions, I will just post it here so others can see it. Getting the bracket out is not too bad it is just time consuming as long as you take your time.

Here are some direcitons. Hope they help.

Taking the bracket out is pretty straight forward. You have to take his arms off there is a screw in each that is not to bad, you will need a short screw driver and will have to turn him as there isn't much room. Then you will have to remove the two screws in the base of the Hulk body, these are a real pain as there is no room at all. Best to have an offset screw driver. They also have lock tight on them so they are kind of hard to get started. There are also two screws that go through the back of the assembly into his chest. These I didn’t even know about until I had his body off as there is no way to see them or get at them whit the thing in the machine, they just pulled out as I lifted his body off the bracket. I know of no way to get them back in either because I can’t see how you can get the bracket through the hole with his body on, and once it’s in the machine you can’t get to them. Someone else may have a way but I couldn’t figure it out. I just left them out and it seems to work fine, the two screws at his base do a good job of holding the body on the bracket and I have not noticed him wobbling at all.

Once you get his body off then you can stand the playfield up and just take the screws and a couple of nuts out of the assembly on the bottom. Once you get the screws and nuts off you will have to turn the bracket about a ¼ turn so the posts his arms attach to are lined up with the biggest part of the hole. Then you just tilt it and get one of the posts through the hole and then it should just slide out. Be careful as the posts tend to get hung up on the plastic that is behind the Hulk but if you get the posts below the plastic before you get it turned completely you should be good you also have to watch all of the wires on the bottom of the playfield as they tend to grab hold of the bracket as you are turning it.

There are three connections you have to take off to get the bracket out. There is an IDC connection going to the board on the bracket, one connection going to the two coils you can see and one going to the coil in his back.

Once out you have access to the coil. The coil is held on with a couple of screws at the top of the assembly and comes apart real easy once you get it out, it is easier to solder the wires back on with the coil out of the bracket.

Putting it back together is just the reverse and like I said the only issue I had was the two screws going from the back of the bracket into his chest. Not sure how to get them back in with the playfield in the machine, could probably do it with the whole thing out but I never had an issue with his body flopping around even with the screws left out.

Hope this helps I am not the best at writing directions, just let me know if you have any questions.

Mike

First time it broke was shortly after I got it so it was with the old code. It looked like the first time the wire had been crimped on something and just broke at the zip tie or they pulled the zip tie too tight and it just couln't handle it because the wire was still soldered to the coil. The second time I think it broke because when I put it back on it was too short and I didn't get it back under the zip tie.

If it's the board attached to the bracket it is easy to get at. Don't think you would have to remove anything but the board, but I am not real sure what board they are talking about.

Yea that is what mine looked like the first time. Broke in the exact same spot but the red wire. Think the zip tie cut it also. The second time I think it broke because the wire was too short to put back the zip tie and I think it just broke from movement.