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Preventative maintenance.......flipper rebuild (Completed)

By 82Trooper

10 years ago


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#1 10 years ago

I have a BK2K that I have owned for several years. The game plays 100% and I am having no issues. I was considering installing a flipper rebulid kit for all three flippers. I figure after thousands of games, they are likely worn to some degree. As the flippers are where the player really interacts with the game, I think having them be 100% is the way to go.

Any thoughts on doing maintenance tasks like this? Do you guys regularly do this type stuff, or should I just leave well enough alone and fix what breaks?

Thanks for any insight.
Mike

#6 10 years ago

Thanks for the link, I appreciate the advice.

3 weeks later
#29 10 years ago

OK, so I did splurge and rebuild all three flippers this past weekend. Went smoothly and I am satisfied with the project. I do not think there is any noticible difference in their action, but I feel good knowing they are fresh and squared away. Adjusted properly and I even installled new rubbers.

Prior to starting this project, I was looking at Marcos website, and it says the "factory" indicates the flippers should be rebulit every 500k flips. Apparently theire is a function that allows you to check the flipper "count". Does anyone know where to specifically access this info.....I am more curious than anything......

I looked in the manual and could not find it.

#31 10 years ago

How can you make assumptions about how often someone plays? That seems a little silly.

I was really looking for someone to actually help me answer the question I was asking.

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