Just recently got a Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends. Seemed to be working ok for the most part for the last couple days, but I noticed an issue this evening with the SAVED drop targets not resetting, specifically when all 5 have been dropped. If its just 1,2,3 or 4 dropped it appears to reset ok... but once all 5 dropped, the coil fires to reset them but it seems a bit weaker and attempts a few times and gives up. I have also confirmed this in coil test mode, by manually dropping all the targets and trying to fire the coil to reset, and no luck. If I reset the targets manually, then dropping just a few of them and firing the coil again it resets ok, just not when all 5 targets have been dropped. I don't believe there is a particular drop target that is causing the problem, but I haven't completely ruled that out.

This is my first pin, but I have been collecting arcade games for a bit, so I am pretty comfortable working with a multi meter, switches, wiring.

Any suggestions on what items I should take a closer look at would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers!

This seems like a possibility. I notice that the coil has a harder time resetting 4 targets than it does compared to 1, 2, or even 3. I wonder that the coil itself perhaps needs to be replaced if it suddenly doesn't have enough strength to push the targets up? I found another post where folks suggested the spring fix like yours, and another suggestion to add some washers to the assembly in a certain section, because the early units with this type of drop target assembly had some wear issues, and adding the couple washers helps put some space between the bar that lifts the targets so it gets some momentum before it hits them and can successfully push them up. Also suggested was to clean up the assembly, because it could be gunked up. I'll have a better chance to look at them this weekend.

Cheers!

been a while since I took a look at the drop targets as they were resetting properly like 99% of the time since I last posted, but today they were failing almost every time and I had enough. I stretched out a couple of the springs on just 2 targets and this made a huge difference. Previously, the coil would try to fire 3 times at most to be able to reset them. Now when all 5 targets drop, the coil fires only once and everything is good to go!

Thanks everyone for the suggestions! Happy gaming!