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As of yesterday my TZ has developed a bridge diverter issue. What happens is that the ball goes down the metal wireform into the diverter, the game makes the sound as if it's going to drop it on the playfield (which makes me think the opto is working fine), but nothing happens. The ball then stays in the diverter assembly and a ball search starts, but the game does not (or can not) drop it. The only way to fix it is to take the glass off and manually push the diverter backwards to drop the ball on the playfield. Sometimes it starts working for a little while after that, but more often than not it will repeat this the next time it is supposed to drop a ball on the playfield.
Oddly enough when it is supposed to move out of the way to let the ball onto the mini playfield this seems to work, but I don't know if that has just been a fluke.
From a cursory glance it looks as if an E-clip is partly broken, but there is nothing in the manual at all about how this assembly is supposed to look or be put together above the playfield. The manual only has the assembly below the playfield listed. Intuitively it doesn't seem like this broken E-clip would be the thing stopping the diverter from working reliably because from the looks of it it just keeps it attached to a hinge pin.
I haven't yet checked below the playfield to see if the coil spring or any C/E rings are broken or anything.
In Coil Test the diverter coil sortof jiggles the diverter assembly, but not consistently, but it doesn't completely rotate the diverter backwards like it would do if it was dropping a ball - should it?
Any tips for me to look at next? Have attached some images to show what it currently looks like.
As of yesterday my TZ has developed a bridge diverter issue. What happens is that the ball goes down the metal wireform into the diverter, the game makes the sound as if it's going to drop it on the playfield (which makes me think the opto is working fine), but nothing happens. The ball then stays in the diverter assembly and a ball search starts, but the game does not (or can not) drop it. The only way to fix it is to take the glass off and manually push the diverter backwards to drop the ball on the playfield. Sometimes it starts working for a little while after that, but more often than not it will repeat this the next time it is supposed to drop a ball on the playfield.
Oddly enough when it is supposed to move out of the way to let the ball onto the mini playfield this seems to work, but I don't know if that has just been a fluke.
From a cursory glance it looks as if an E-clip is partly broken, but there is nothing in the manual at all about how this assembly is supposed to look or be put together above the playfield. The manual only has the assembly below the playfield listed. Intuitively it doesn't seem like this broken E-clip would be the thing stopping the diverter from working reliably because from the looks of it it just keeps it attached to a hinge pin.
I haven't yet checked below the playfield to see if the coil spring or any C/E rings are broken or anything.
In Coil Test the diverter coil sortof jiggles the diverter assembly, but not consistently, but it doesn't completely rotate the diverter backwards like it would do if it was dropping a ball - should it?
Any tips for me to look at next? Have attached some images to show what it currently looks like.
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