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Quoted from TractorDoc:

Another snail's pace update.
I am replacing some of the switches as needed -- flipper switches and the slingshot switches for sure -- but many of the others are very clean and should still be serviceable. I have decided to replace the diodes/capacitors on the switches; I know the old Bally capacitors have a history of unreliability but I've also had hit and miss luck with some of the original style diodes as well.
It can be difficult to tell but I think the banded side on the originals solders into the side tab on these drop target switches. Sometimes I think I can see a band on the original diodes but sometimes not. Checking the archives and photos of other restorations shows the band on the 1N4004 diodes at the side tab. . . so we will go with it. As you can see my strategy of using zip ties to keep the switch stacks together is paying off.
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The first drop target with memory coils is reassembled. . . now I can take the second one apart for its turn in the tumbler. I only took one apart at a time so I could use the other as a reference for reassembly.
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