New Maverick owner!

I’m a new Maverick owner. I don’t have a solution, but I have exactly the same problem.

My wheel also runs continuously, but I’m afraid if I fix the entrance opto without a fix for the noise problem, it will be more annoying every time it starts.

Great game though!

Hopefully obvious, but I just wanted to remind future readers of this thread that Ohming out transistors (or anything really) should be done with the power OFF.

Welcome to the club! Are you just talking about the cosmetic plastic cover or the entire mechanical assembly?

I got a NOS Lauren Belle on eBay a little over a year ago (no stickers applied). It wasn’t cheap, but as you can see above, there are still a few out there that come up once in a long while. Someone was also selling a 3D printed repro here on pinside a few years ago (maybe just a one off).

I didn’t realize this for a long time, but there is a third option: Stand. This leaves Raise/Fold lit at the VUK so you can still decide later. Ideally, it would be a double flip, but that doesn’t do anything. Instead, you just have to wait out the timer. It’s rare that I would use this option, but if I’m running a little low on discards (but at least 4) and already have 2 or 3 of the top left five bank down I sometimes use Stand since missing the top left drops often ends up in the VUK anyway and I can reevaluate my discard situation then.

Good points. I would add that there is a subtle Data East reference even in the final display code. If you don’t plunge than ball for long enough, there is a “Plunge the Ball” animation that clearly shows the plunger with the DE logo.

The flyer shows Data East on the display on the front:
https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=flyer&db=pinballdb&id=124&image=1

And has the Data East logo on the back (no mention of Sega):
https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=flyer&db=pinballdb&id=124&image=2

Has anyone ever seen a Sega flyer for Maverick?

Actually, to my surprise, you can free the captive ball! It happened to me about a month ago. After many years, the post sleeves were pretty brittle. First one shattered and shortly thereafter the other gave way. The captive ball then rolled out onto the playfield and I knew it was time to shop the game.

BTW, thicker Williams/Bally post sleeves guarding the captive balls make them really hard to hit. My LAH, TFTC, and Maverick all had those bigger O.D. post sleeves installed. I'm not sure if that is what was originally installed, or just what whoever shopped it last had on hand [the I.D. is the same and the larger Bally/Williams ones seem much more common]. At any rate, I recommend trying the narrower "Sega/Stern" post sleeves for better captive ball action:
Color https://www.pinballlife.com/perfectplay-1-116-thin-stern-compatible-rubber-post-sleeve.html

Here are the Pinballlife pics giving an idea of OD difference:
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I posted this to the movies in pinball thread, hopefully it’s not bad form to post it here as well:

My wife was watching a presumably low-budget movie on Amazon Prime called “Legal Action” and I just happened to walk through at the right time to hear some pinball sounds and catch a glimpse of a game. “I think that’s a Maverick”. She gives me the eye roll, but rewinds it anyway. Sure enough, there’s a close-up of the playfield around the flippers and later the wire ramps and a couple of wide shots. The side of the game is painted “County/Line”, the translite is removed showing bare bulbs, and the DMD is placed face-down over the playfield in maintenance pose even as the actor plays! They went through all that trouble/visual mess to obfuscate the copyright game/movie name, but use real sounds from the game (I guess they fear Warner Bros. and Mel Gibson more than Gary Stern). Time starts ~45:25.

I assume that's a typo and should be 090-5050-30.

Some Stern manuals have a coil list for all previous DE/Sega/Stern's in the back and TSPP manual lists 090-5032-00 as suitable for the Maverick Upper Right flipper. Both Marco and Pinball Life carry 090-5032-OT which might work?

PinballMedic does list the 090-5032-OT as being compatible with Maverick:
https://www.pinballmedic.net/coilchart.html

There are three flippers. Is the upper right flipper flipping with the left flipper also or just the lower right?

The first thing I'd do is go into the Diagnostics switch test and check all of the switches in Column 8 to make sure they aren't cross-talking (possibly a bad / missing switch diode).

If the flipper switches aren't triggering together in diagnostics, then I would look at the flipper board (inside the cabinet on the left-hand side). If you have another Data East/Sega game around the same time you may be able to swap out the flipper board just to see if that's the problem.

Have you inspected the flipper board on the inside left of the cabinet for physical damage? Supposedly, you can damage it if you have the playfield tilted at an angle when you raise the playfield.

I’m not suggesting you shotgun replace the flipper board, but just for reference:

https://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/520-5076-00

Even if something is wrong with your flipper board, it will still probably be cheaper to get it repaired if you don’t have the skill set to do it yourself, but there’s also a Rottendog replacement available (I’ve never used one) that’s cheaper than the NOS Data East board:
https://www.pinballlife.com/rottendog-data-east-universal-flipper-board.html

I can’t envision how the flipper wiring could just go bad without something obvious (out of place) shorting across or the unlikely scenario where the insulation is damaged on two wires that are touching (possibly hidden in a wire bundle). However, if you want to eliminate the flipper wiring, you should be able to disconnect the flipper button connector from the flipper board and carefully jump across the two pins for either the left or right flipper. Refer to the Maverick manual, but if I recall correctly one of the flipper board diagrams in the manual is incorrect. If only one flipper flips then it’s the wiring. If both flippers flip, then it’s probably the flipper board. If you want to try this, I can look at the manual and tell you which pinoit I think is correct.

Something else you could try is to pull the flipper button connector from the flipper board and jumper across the left flipper enable to ground:

From P. 92 of the manual:

This could help eliminated (or point to) the flipper and EOS switch wiring as the problem source.

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Can anyone help identify if this bent wire piece is a part for my Maverick?

I’ve waited too long putting my Maverick back together and didn’t take enough teardown pics! Does this part go to Maverick? (I’m thinking part of the Lauren Belle assembly.). It’s also possible this has nothing to do with the game and just ended up next to my stack of parts.

Thanks!

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Thanks for the response! I’ve got it all put back together and will rest easier knowing that I didn’t forget to put a part in.