You know, I just saw something somewhere that had an adjustable coil stop on it. Wasn't a flipper, and I can't remember what game it was, but it had a bolt for adjusting the stop point on it. Might have been a VUK or something like that. The other thing is that another manufacturer may have a longer plunger that you can drive out the roll pin and swap the linkage. Have any spares/craps laying around you can measure?

I know my devil riders is a LOT harder to trap a ball on, but always attributed that to the location of the slings in relation to the flipper, or the angle of the inlane. Might be flipper related though.

-Hans

I remember seeing the plunger rest position adjustment in an old Bally EM replay knocker.

Yes, that's where I saw it, saucer kickout on my Lectronamo.

Not my personal preference, but you could "flop" the flipper bats just slightly so that when at full stroke, they don't come up so much, but it would also change shot geometry a bit. I don't think its too bad adjusted properly. They're not Gottblieb insta-trap type flippers at least.

Remove the wire between the right flippers, that will prevent traps quickly.

Is there a grommet in the flipper bracket where the linkage rests?

Here's a post on the LC club thread about the grommets:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/laser-cue-club-clothing-optional#post-4980400

Yeah, mine did too. But maybe at some point in production, the bracket was changed?

Williams was experimenting with different flipper stops around that time. There's an article/series of articles in Gameroom magazine about it.

Personally I just go with the WPC style mechs, and you can change the plungers/links/stops as you see fit to tune the flipper where you like it.

Different plungers, mostly. You'd have to attach the links yourself. Marcospec is where I get odd sizes of plungers (I was lucky several years ago to find some gottlieb equivalent to classic stern flipper plungers, before those were remade, for $2.00 each).

Getting some kind of longer flipper link in there might work too, effectively lengthening the plunger/shortening the flipper throw. And perhaps some judicious bending of the end plate like used to be recommended when people didn't realize you could put different coil stop in there (only bend it in towards the coil instead of out).

https://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/530-5349-01

Might work if it's the right diameter and longer. Measure and kind of look around. If you mix and match parts you should get something that works.

You can probably thread a nut and bolt through where the rubber stopper sits to really adjust the at rest position and just use the existing plunger, instead of bending that area.