Star trek, the next generation

To day i have cleaned all inserts and changed all hard to reach lamps at the lower side. The remaining lamps have been cleaned and tested and all lamp PCB's have been cleaned.

I have also rebuilt the three flipper assemblies. Both lower assemblies were missing a screw for the coil stop. The right one is missing the threads for the second screw completely. At the left one somebody have tried to drill out a broken screw but didn’t succeed, there were still bits of the screw in the hole. It isn’t possible to restore the threads so I had to use a nut and lock washer to properly secure the coil stop. It will hold the coil stop properly but will make it a bit more complicated to take it apart when it need service later on. There are new flipper bases to buy, but they are not cheap. I’ll leave it as this for now and maybe we will change the two flipper bases later on.

 

 

I have also sorted the problem with the stuck diverter. It wasn’t a too tight actuator arm as I first thought. Once I got the arm off the diverter was still stuck and the cause was that old grease at the shaft has solidified. When the goo had been cleaned of at both the shaft and inside the tubing the diverter worked fine again.