Dead Flipper (Bounce) After A Rebuild

[stoptap]

I recently rebuilt the flippers on my Stern Star Trek and after a few games noticed that the right flipper was dead when it was being held up. By dead I mean that when the flipper was being held in the up position and a ball would hit it the ball would just die on the flipper. No bounce at all. I replaced the flipper bush (because it was the one thing I didn’t have at the time of the rebuild) but no joy. I decided to have a peep at the plunger so took off the brand new coil stop and found this.



Rubbish standard of riveting on the coil stop. I put some high strength retainer on it and riveted it over again.
Flipper is now perfect.

Hope this may help someone in the future with a dead flipper.

 

[Paul R Owen]

That ST is only about a year old, and needs a flipper rebuild???

 

[stoptap]

That ST is only about a year old, and needs a flipper rebuild???

It’s older than a year. Nearer 3 I believe. The plungers, coil stops and pivot screws I took out were well worn.

 

[Deleted member 2463]

check out the thread on pinside with the guy who's had a star trek on location with tens of thousands of plays on it - the game has held up really well! I think he suffered a similar failure.

Neil

 

[Epotech]

There was a bad batch of coil stops. Virtually every ST was fitted with them. Just toss them and get new stern ones and the new ones are fine.

 

[Sgt GrizZ]

It’s older than a year. Nearer 3 I believe. The plungers, coil stops and pivot screws I took out were well worn.

Just had to do flipper rebuild on a GB. Same thing ... parts were really worn. It does get a lot of play in the pub .. but even so I was surprised.

 

[kevlar]

Just had to do flipper rebuild on a GB. Same thing ... parts were really worn. It does get a lot of play in the pub .. but even so I was surprised.

Didn't @Will handle that?

 

[Sgt GrizZ]

Didn't @Will handle that?

 

[Monkeyboypaul]

Are there any 'bad' stops on the market?

I bought some from Pinball Centre ages ago, only because i had an order with them and wanted to make the most of the extra postage costs with a bigger list, and compared to the Pinball Mania and PH stops I've had; the PC ones seem to be of poorer build quality.

 

[windoesnot]

Blame the person you got it off Andrew, shoddy seller!!!!!!!!!

 

[stoptap]

Blame the person you got it off Andrew, shoddy seller!!!!!!!!!

It’s in the hands of my legal people.