When a ball is on the black pearl mini play field and after activating opening of the cannon loading door (the green “lite fuse” arrow is lit) it’s very difficult to load the cannon because that flap does not stay open. The flap opens momentarily, but then drops right back down, and then if it gets hit several times with the ball it might hold it open again for about 10 seconds before it drops back down again.
Is this normal game play? I have not had the game for very long and it has been this way ever since I acquired the game.
I have checked the mechanical connections and the flap raises and lowers easily manually. In the coil test (coil number 072: black pearl cannon load door lock) when testing the coil will fire and flip the flap up momentarily.