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VID's Guide to Upgrading/Rebuilding Flippers

By vid1900

11 years ago


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Post #6 Get the right EOS switch Posted by vid1900 (11 years ago)

Post #8 Make System 11 Flippers Feel Tight Like Fliptronic Posted by vid1900 (11 years ago)

Post #88 Replace Old Series Coils With New Parallel Coils Posted by vid1900 (11 years ago)

Post #140 Udate Old Solid State Flippers Into Fliptronic Style Posted by vid1900 (11 years ago)

Post #292 List of games with longer/shorter flipper travel Posted by vid1900 (10 years ago)

Post #294 Rebuilding 1967-1979 Flippers Posted by vid1900 (10 years ago)

Post #390 Coil stop differences between system 11 and Fliptronic Posted by vid1900 (10 years ago)

Post #520 Rebuilding Bally Linear Flippers Posted by vid1900 (9 years ago)


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#2507 3 years ago
Quoted from vid1900:

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Since I always catch hell if I suggest doing a repair other than stock....
Pin-Logic sells a replacement button that you can put on the end of your crank.
http://pin-logic.com/black-bally-buttons.shtml
$4 is a quick way to get a sloppy set of flippers flipping again.
Is it as good as switching back to old style mechs? Nope.
But it's cheap, quick and it works!
30 years latter, we finally got our replaceable nylon button.

Looks like the site is no more...I'm assuming that means that these are long gone / dead / no more, and thus the only real option is to just 'downgrade'?

I'm waiting on a response from PBR so I can order the parts, which I hope they have in stock..but barring that I may have to live with linear flippers for a bit I'm afraid, unless the button is available somewhere else (doubtful).

#2511 3 years ago

I had requested all the parts from PBR to "downgrade" away from linear and it sounds like like they were all in stock, so no issue. My worry was that they might be out of stock and I might end up having to deal with linear for a bit.

Can't wait for my Eight Ball Deluxe to be properly downgraded!

#2513 3 years ago

Yeah, I pinned all my hopes to PBR and placed my $340 PBL order (love those guys!) on the 29th, not that I couldn't place another order after the fact. I followed instructions and ordered expansion springs and williams switches as well, individually piecing together the rest of the 3-flipper kit from PBR.

Thanks again for this thread and for all your guides here. You are very much appreciated!

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