Your bracket appears to be broken and missing the tine that comes up through the rectangle hole in the plate, just in front of the tension spring.
It comes up thru the hole and curves back to hold the plate in place and also set it's depth of throw.

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You need this I believe:
(the part broken on yours is the long middle finger sticking up, that gets bent back down during assy)

http://www.marcospecialties.com/control/keywordsearch?SEARCH_STRING=A-14913

There is a mod I would suggest for your game. The green up coil - see the three purple wires green stripe going to the single lug ( the thin one is more lavender looking than purple ) ?

I would remove those three wires. Then get a single wire. Solder those three wires to one end of the single wire, and then the other end of the single wire to the coil lug.

The way your game is now, if that thin wire breaks off ( common STNG problem ) it is a diode tie back wire, and you blow a lot of neat stuff on the small driver board in the upper right corner of the head and smoke a subway coil.

With the three wires going to a single wire, if for what ever reason that single wire breaks off, the three stay together and you don't blow up a lot of stuff.

LTG : )

G'day all. I've just bought my first machine, and it's this one - and I have the (apparently infamous) drop target sticking up problem. I've removed the assembly, but nothing looks broken. However I see no way that the down solenoid could bump the drop target to cause it to drop... Does anyone have a good close up pic of the drop mechanism I can reference? (I've attached a pic of mine just in case anyone can immediately see the problem...)

Cheers,

Andy
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andy look at the picture in post 2.
The coil should pull a long needle like poker into the hole on top of the pulldown coil... pushing the drop target over the latching ramp.

your picture looks like it's missing the poker to me.

Thanks Zitt,

That's what I'd figured also... I was thinking of pulling it out and braising a rod poker to it for the purpose, but is there an actual part I can get to replace it. (The flash flare in post two made it hard to see, but now you point it out I think I see how it's supposed to work). I took a look in the maintenance guide but there's nothing clear there either.

The part in post 3 doesn't look like it will do the trick...

I can see lots of cash going into mods for this baby... Screen and sound as starters, but it's such a great game to start with!

Andy

Looks like the actuator arm is broke.
Part #01-8647-L
http://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/01-8647-L

Damn, thanks Samin, that's the one alright.

I spent the evening manufacturing a fix from a small piece of stainless strap I had lying around....

This is the broken arm...
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And this is the new actuator I made....
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And fitted together....
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To finish it off I tapped an 3mm thread into the bronze piece, and secured the two together with a machine screw (from an old hard drive assembly).

Works a treat, but I might order myself a new one anyway.

Thanks for all the help guys!

(Oh, while I'm at it does anyone else have a problem with the ball bouncing out of the drain under the Borg ship on launch? It screws up the probe skill shot every other time now that I have the drop target working properly...)

Cheers,

Andy

First, why are you choosing Fire Probe?
Second, maybe you need to check your slant?

It's my sons favorite launch
option (he's only 6).

And I haven't checked the slant, but the floors pretty level... Will take a look at that tonight... Thanks.