rebuilt linear flippers are not that bad. if the game was too easy, then it wouldn't be fun
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Quoted from vid1900:Linears are slow and clunky because the plungers weight 2x what a normal plunger weighs.
The pawl quickly wears 2 flat spots (because there is such a small area of surface to wear) and then you have the typical Bally "slop gap".
We all love our classic Bally games, but it's OK to just admit that the Linears were poorly engineered, expensive to service, failures.
If they were were any good at all, Williams would have incorporated the design when they bought Bally.
If you put the worlds best flippers on a game then you risk making a game too easy. I don't have problems with rebuilt bally flippers that play like original, in home use it's really not a big deal and will give you years of issue free play.
if I was changing things I would use classic stern flippers with the coil stop changed so that you have correct flipper travel, but still, if you have super accuracy then a challenging game can become boring.
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