Tooele, UT
I just acquired a nice Williams Triple Strike. It's pretty clean, but the steppers were all a bit gooey. As far as I can tell, all features are now working correctly, except for a single quirk involving the eject hole at the top of the playfield.
That hole advances each time the ball drops into it, with an indicator showing 1-5. When I first powered up the machine, 1 and 2 wouldn't light, due to grease on the eject hole advance stepper. I cleaned that up and now when I advance that stepper manually, the lights move from 1 to 5 as they should.
However, when I'm playing a game and advancing the stepper via actually putting the ball in the hole, something weird happens. The lights advance from 1 to 5 as they should, but when the hole advances to 4 or 5, the 3 stays lit. This is not an issue with the eject hole advance stepper; there's nothing there to provide continuity to the 3 if the stepper is in the 4 or 5 position. There must be another switch that's out of position somewhere that's preventing the 3 from going out when the hole advances to 4 or 5.
Don't yet have a paper manual or schematic in hand on this one, so I'm having to blunder through it and this machine is relatively complex (30+ relays, including a few that aren't labeled.). I know that Little Chief (and perhaps others) had a similar eject hole, so perhaps someone has encountered a similar problem. Any suggestions as to what might be happening here or how to fix it? AFAIK, it's the last remaining glitch in the game, and it's driving me nuts.
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Charlie
