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Many folks have installed an anti-bounce post to solve this issue. See the following link for an example: https://www.retroblast.com/articles/modzone_3.html

Worked great for me.

Both the chrome and black look amazing. I have a very slight preference for the black as The fingerprints on my Tron chrome drive me insane. It is beautiful when clean and not being played. The black always looks nice. TZ is such a great game in both play and looks. Good luck with your decision.

My TZ had weak flippers for years compared to other friends TZs. Tried flipper rebuild, coil replacement, new flipper opto boards but nothing seemed to really improve much. I finally replaced the Fliptronics board with a repro one and bam! Whole new machine. So I always felt my IJ had weaker flippers when it came to hitting the ramps - new repro Fliptronics board and same result, I could make the ramps so easy after that.

The old components on the Fliptronics boards get weak after 30 years. Now it is probably an easy fix if you can diagnose which components are bad and solder. But a repro Fliptronics board is relatively inexpensive. As others have said don’t bother with changing the coils (maybe the sleeves).

Good luck!