(Topic ID: 281680)

Oh so close....

By amymcg

3 years ago



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#1 3 years ago

With the help of several people on this forum, I fixed my Williams San Francisco! Everything mechanically has been working very well. I rebuilt the flippers this past week and yesterday cleaned up the playfield and installed new rubber rings. We played three or four games, then something went wrong. The 1 point relay was going nuts! After turning off and back on. I went back around and triggered all the springs on the playfield that give 1 point, in particular ones that have new rubber in front of them and all seemed to be fine, nothing holding a leaf spring closed. I put the ball in play and the movement from loading the ball caused the problem to start up, so I think something must be loose under the playfield. Time to start poking around again... there's a lot of leaf springs on this thing that trigger the 1 point relay.... We were just about to move it to its permanent location! Delayed again!

#2 3 years ago

And now it’s fixed. One spring gap just a tiny bit too close after I stalling the new rubbers. Made a slight adjustment and all is good. Now time for cosmetics!

#3 3 years ago

Congrats! Those pesky leaf switches. Nothing like the satisfaction of solving a playability issue though eh?

One of the great things about EMs (as opposed to games with "blackbox" circuit or node boards) is that the problem is nearly always visible. You just have to find it! And hopefully, not pull your hair out in the process.

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