Greetings again oh purveyors of pinball repair knowledge.
While working on a stubborn problem on my Surf Champ scoring, I decided to clean the ball
count/player mechanism's switches (the entire mech drops down easily with one thumb screw for relatively
easy access). At that time, I was manually clicking through each cam location to get switches to
open and close so that I could clean them appropriately. Now all kinds of weird issues occur like ...
while playing in single player mode the 1st ball scores correctly on the 1st player, but the second ball
scores on third player even though it's single player (and of course the lights between players
don't come on correctly anymore in the back glass). Yep, I have somehow misaligned the ball
count/player count mechanism, and I don't seem to be able to reset it manually (by manually releasing
the Solenoid to where it rests after a spring return, nor by resetting electronically (by powering
all the way down and back up).
Could one of you who understand that mech (or even if you don't please hazard a guess) tell me or even
show me a picture (or video) of where that mech should reside at start state. I'm pretty sure I've just
either misaligned it slightly or put it in a state to which it can't recover from while manually moving it.
I'm actually getting pretty good at working on this machine, but there are an absurd amount
of wires in this 4 player EM, and from 1973 until now a lot of them have lost the colors with
which they were coded.
Any help or guesses are very much appreciated,
Thanks,
-Craig