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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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#1349 8 years ago

On WPC era games, Some have white opto interupters and some have black. It seems like all the white ones have a spring steel piece and the black ones do not. Any thoughts on the spring steel piece? Thanks.

#1351 8 years ago

Cool, thanks.

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#1370 7 years ago

I have no experience with this but it seems to me that rather than kludge things up with cut down bushings and extra drilled holes or pounding out the studs and risking paint damage, wouldn't it be best to just cut the studs off with a dremel.

#1379 7 years ago

The loss of power changes the coil into a power generator. The collapsing magnetic field creates electricity. For SS (solid state) machines, a diode shorts out this power, preventing damage to the circuitry.

#1384 7 years ago

You could have just filed the slot wider.

#1394 7 years ago
Quoted from Mr_Tantrum:

A pneumatic grinder with a cutting disk would seem to work well in this case also for those of you who have air compressors.

Yep, I cut everything with mine. Steel, stainless, plastic, or even grind down wood. Doesn't work so well on aluminum though.

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