what did you find out? most likely a wire that fell off.???????

Where did you find that? I looked in the manual from the Stern website and didn't see that.
Thank you so much for posting that!

Thank you very much for posting this. I used it to take off my upper playfield last week. My right flipper wire broke off, likely from the upper playfield movement. Re-soldered connection and everything now working.

Had the exact same issue, also had to resolder wire...
Many thanks for the Upper Playfield disassembly instructions and notes etc.

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Thank you for this topic! I just joined the Mando club last night with a Premium and ~40 or so games into play, both the flippers in the upper playfield died. It was probably no coincidence that it happened about 15 games after I installed a shaker motor.

I was dreading taking the mini-playfield out to examine the flippers but this thread made it seem pretty straight forward. Got the mini-playfield out and on my bench and there it was....the Gray/Orange wire broken off. And since it daisy-chains to the other flipper, it made sense that both would be dead.

Stripped off a new lead, re-soldered, re-installed the mini-playfield, and we're back in business in less than an hour. I reflowed the solder and checked the strength of the solder jobs on all of the other coil lugs under the mini-playfield while I was there, just as preventative. I would've put new coil stops in but I don't have any on hand at the moment and the family was watching me fix this so they can get back to playing Mando, lol!

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Hello everyone, great post & thanks for all your comments.

My upper playfield is making some kind of squeaking noise when it moves up and down as if it lacked oil.

Do you now if I can put some oil or something somewhere to repair / avoid the squeaking ?

Thanks

I have been told to never use any liquid lubricant under the playfield because it will collect coil dust and dirt and turn it into a grinding paste that's gumming up everything. YMMV

Another victim of the dreaded non-working upper flipper. Pulled the mini playfield per instructions and, sure enough, a broken solder joint. Fixed and back up now, thanks to OP for posting removal instructions.

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Thanks! Used this knowledge to fix my left flipper on my mini playfield.