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Burnt Pinball Connectors: The Cause of Most Int...
Displays flickering, a solenoid firing on its own, a reset halfway through ball two? On a 1977-1989 Bally, Stern, Williams or Gottlieb machine the cause is usually a connector, not...
Burnt Pinball Connectors: The Cause of Most Int...
Displays flickering, a solenoid firing on its own, a reset halfway through ball two? On a 1977-1989 Bally, Stern, Williams or Gottlieb machine the cause is usually a connector, not...
Pinball Machine Keeps Blowing Fuses: How to Fin...
A fuse that blows once is bad luck. A fuse that blows again is telling you where the short is. Which fuse went, and how long it lasted, narrows the...
Pinball Machine Keeps Blowing Fuses: How to Fin...
A fuse that blows once is bad luck. A fuse that blows again is telling you where the short is. Which fuse went, and how long it lasted, narrows the...
Playing the Herbstmeisterschaft? What to Look F...
The GPA-Herbstmeisterschaft 2026 runs 16–18 October at Insert Coins in Herne — over 1,000 m² of arcade, more than fifty pinball machines on free play, and a club that has...
Playing the Herbstmeisterschaft? What to Look F...
The GPA-Herbstmeisterschaft 2026 runs 16–18 October at Insert Coins in Herne — over 1,000 m² of arcade, more than fifty pinball machines on free play, and a club that has...
Pinball Flippers Not Working: Dead, Weak or Buz...
Both flippers dead, one flipper out, or weak and buzzing on a 1977-1989 Bally, Stern, Williams or Gottlieb? How the flippers fail tells you where to look: the flipper relay,...
Pinball Flippers Not Working: Dead, Weak or Buz...
Both flippers dead, one flipper out, or weak and buzzing on a 1977-1989 Bally, Stern, Williams or Gottlieb? How the flippers fail tells you where to look: the flipper relay,...
Bally Feature Lamps Not Working: Lamp Driver Bo...
Feature lamps dead, stuck on or flickering on a Bally or Stern from 1977-1985? Start with TP1 on the rectifier board, then work through fuse, bridge rectifier, SCRs, decoders and...
Bally Feature Lamps Not Working: Lamp Driver Bo...
Feature lamps dead, stuck on or flickering on a Bally or Stern from 1977-1985? Start with TP1 on the rectifier board, then work through fuse, bridge rectifier, SCRs, decoders and...
Pinball Switch Matrix Not Working: Dead Rows an...
A whole row of switches dead, or one reading closed that is not? The switch matrix fault patterns on Bally, Stern, Williams System 3-7 and Gottlieb System 1 and 80...
Pinball Switch Matrix Not Working: Dead Rows an...
A whole row of switches dead, or one reading closed that is not? The switch matrix fault patterns on Bally, Stern, Williams System 3-7 and Gottlieb System 1 and 80...
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