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TFTC pic needed

Cryptkeeper

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Could someone post a pic of a TFTC drop target assembly under carriage (....ooh matron)?
I think there is something missing on mine,but all looks complete.
The plunger has too much travel and can drop out off the coil.
I've "fixed" it with a cable tie and it does the job but would like to get it right.

Thanks
 
i have very recently been sorting out this very part of two TFTCs that currently reside in my garage, and i think it must have been a basic design fault (plunger shoulda been a cm longer perhaps), as on one of them the operator had rigged a piece to stop the plunger from pulling out, and on the other one it had pulled loose.

i will send some pics later today
 
Well that answers that I suppose!
no need for pics if thats the way its supposed to be.
I put a loose cable tie through the plunder/plastic cam bit that loops over the coil.

Thanks!
 
It's not the end stopper worn down rather than the plunger shaft? Or even the wrong length of stopper fitted at a service
 
I'd quite like to see your ghetto setup with the cable tie tbh, as what this assembly is missing is something to keep it all in place. I can't see how an end stop or plunger could be worn out on this, it can't fire more than a few times a game.

Anyway I took some pics of the mechs I recently took out (3 of them) and as you can see there is some play in a few places where you can gain a few mm each time. Some parts even have slots instead of holes to allow adjustment. Maybe yours needs taking apart, de-gunking, and new springs. I wanna see the cable tie though please

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Good luck dude
 
I ment more that maybe it had been replaced with one that was to short. Like a part num being wrong which would explain while it's like it on several machines. Of course I could be completely wrong I'm not even familiar with this mech in just going by similar ones
 
it's possible Rudi, i just think it's no coincidence that the same part did the same thing in three TFTC machines. hopefully someone else who has one will chime in
 
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My getto fix,
ignore the edge clipped off the link.I thought that corner was the problem originally .
bonus pic my topper.got it at Halloween last year in tesco.
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I will state the obvious... as seen from the photos, you've the wrong type (and length) of plunger (plus spring missing)... :cool:
 
I think we all agreed the plunger shoulda been longer, the confusion arose when I looked at two other TFTCs and they had the same trouble. Makes me wonder if it was a factory error.
 
I think it's more likely that operators only had B/W plungers to hand and fitted what they had to keep the game going...

Cryptkeeper said:
how can you tell the plunger types?
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Look at the pictures (Dan's 2nd & 4th), the correctly working ones have a seat on the plunger link for the spring to push against. Yours doesn't, it has a more rounded shape.
 
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