Well, now that my Flip-A-Card game is back and at least semi-operational, now begins the fine tuning! One of the first things I noticed, which I remember from before it packed in a year or so ago is that the left flipper sticks in the UP position quite frequently. There ARE some drag marks on the board face, indicating that there might be some tight tolerances there, but I cannot make the flipper stick when I "flip it" by hand from underneath. I tried loosening the collar on the underside of the flipper shaft (the one that connects it to the coil/plunger assembly) and dropping it down a bit (thinking perhaps it was too tight and was binding), but that didn't seem to help. I pulled the coil and plunger out, cleaned them off and dropped some teflon spray on them, and that didn't help. Should there be a nylon bushing or something of the like between the flipper itself and the game face? I also thought perhaps I could move the bottom end of the return spring over one screw on the flipper base, in case that spring is getting weak...
(oh, and my wife wants to know if there's bigger, aftermarket flippers I could put on this game... Apparently my flippers are too small for her! )