Berrien Springs, MI
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Quoted from oopsallberrys:I have the magnetic ones in mine and they work great.... for awhile. The magnet tends to move and I have to keep re-adjusting it. I even superglued it in place and it moved after 2 months or so.
Super glue will not hold the magnets in place. I don't know of a (cured) glue in the world that will work under the force and flex that the flipper board is subjected to.
There are also very few glues that will adhere to the plating that is commonly found on most high powered magnets. The ones that do are notoriously difficult to work with. So that's another negative for using any form of glue.
The only thing that is known to work is tape. Simple scotch tape or other thin tape secured to the top of the magnet and wrapped around the spring steel. Most tape is a non-cured glue, IE it stays sticky all the time, so it has a little bit of give and flex, which is necessary to keep everything in place.
For those particularly violent pinball players (slap save much?), I would recommend an additional layer of double-sided sticky tape under the magnets and then tape over the magnets as described above.
Quoted from PinPlayer2:What occurs when it gets out of adustment? I need to study the new ones more to better understand them.
Usually a stuck flipper is the common result.
The magnet(s) works to keep a switch closed. As you move the spring steel away (eg, press the flipper button), the magnetic field decreases and the switch opens and activates the corresponding flipper. If the magnet starts to physically shift (usually due to gravity), the strength of the magnetic field shifts and thus can cause a switch to activate when you don't want it to.
Hope that helps explain it.
Tony
