WOZ left flipper question........

Have a question and need some help. My WOZ left flipper has a problem springing back into it's original position. Kinda like the spring won't bring it back to the original position.

I am new,,, but I am somewhat mechanically inclined..... so I pulled the glass... lifted the playfield and looked for 'binding' in any area of the flipper underneath. Could not see anything that could cause an issue. Compared with the right flipper that moves without any obstruction at all. Still a little puzzled. Spring has no issue;... my son and I agreed that it must be a solenoid issue..... H.mmmmmm... doesn't seem to make sense. Can't see how the solenoid would cause a bind.... but I have seen more that I don't understand.

So asking for everybody's help.

What do you think?

LTG ,,

I thank you for your reply and help.

I am old school,,, so solenoid= coil to me. But yes, the right side lifts and drops as it should ,,, the left side lifts but does NOT drop to it's original position.... We have checked everything out from underneath and it all looks good. The 'coil' seems to be the issue that I would check... but doesn't seem to make sense to me. Yes, I can remove the entire assembly and see if the coil sleeve is an issue (which seems like it might be).... but I would hope not. Don't really want to have to remove this all to find out. But if it is,,,,, then it is..........

Thank you............

Not really want I wanted to hear,,, but the same thing my son said.

Thank you so much,

I will do as such........

I am going to look into this. Funny thing is, after this issue came up, my son helped me lift the playfield, we inspected, concluded that it had to be the coil...... thought about it, and figured it had to be a heat issue after some play time. But since putting the playfield back down.... I haven't had the problem since.

Go Figure?!.......

Now, not so funny anymore.... It kinda fixed itself for a bit, but now it is quite distracting and not working... so I have to fix it tonight.

I thought it might have been heat related after a few games but it's doing it right off the bat tonight and we haven't finished a game yet. It's the weekend so I really want to enjoy the game. I will now concentrate on this post and read it again, and pay attention. I appreciate everyone's help. It is what keeps me going.

Will play a few games (crippled)... and then get started on it. Hmmm...... hopefully it's just a bracket or screw tightened a bit. It looks like a little bit of work to remove the coil for inspection.. but if that's what needs done then so be it...........

LTG, and all of you............ I don't know who you are, but you are all extremely helpful....

And I cannot tell you how much I appreciate it. .. I truly appreciate how I can turn to this forum and get answers from folks that I don't even know, but somehow they care to help us in the pinball world...... .....

It really means a lot to me. I am very thankful. I feel like my wife should be writing this because she is the most compassionate most caring person I know.....

Where normally I don't give a sh*t...

But I needed to take the time to share my appreciation. I will fix this with your help and advice. thanks...

Very good!...... this is something I will check. Weird thing is that is seems to come and go. Just as soon as I posted my goals of fixing this,,, and doing it this evening...

The next game played without almost any issue at all.... (only 2 games tonight mind you.....).. but quite the puzzle........

Thank you for the information. I will look into it. On the 'cracked flipper' above post, I had to think about it for a minute, and then I thought, 'Hey' this game is only 3 weeks old and the cracked flipper was from on location at an arcade.... so certainly that's not my problem with only 25 games on it or so..........

So then I had to check the 'audits'. ... Damn!.,, 312 games in only 3 weeks. How did this happen?, After all I have to work all of the time. I must be spending too much time on this most fantastic game, how on earth do I have time to work?........

And then the business sense of me started to kick in. Since this is a most enjoyable game I immediately put the gameplay to $5 per game (this is of no issue for a game of this caliber.)... and then I calculated that this game has just earned: $1,560 dollars in just 3 weeks. Hell this thing will be paid for in less that 3 months... maybe 4 months. NO WAIT!... That's just me playing it!... What if I invited the neighbors or friends to play it as well...... I could pay this thing off in less than a month!......... WOW!, I am in the wrong business!............ This puppy is a Money Maker!.........

well, anyways,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,