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It's slightly chilly, but I have a lap warmer.
#cats #catsofmastodon
Ari [APz] Sovijärvi
Ari [APz] Sovijärvi
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A pinball addict. I tend to enjoy working on pins as much as playing them! Owner of Hopeakuula Arcade, apzpins on Twitch and YouTube. Also: cats! 🇫🇮
This account is all about casual and tournament playing, streaming, restoring, repairing and owning pinball. Other casual nostalgia and retro stuff might also sneak in. Feel free to ask me stuff.
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/apzpins/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@apzpins
Pronouns: He/him
Hopeakuula Arcade: https://pelitaivas.fi/ha/eng
A player reported Striker Xtreme not getting balls out of the upkicker next to the goalie. Looks like half of the upkicker is missing. #pinball #pinrepair
Last on the board was Viking. A player had reported its spinner being dead. I glanced at it when we were last open, but it was too crowded to take the glass off.
As I spun the spinner manually, I immediately made a note of how it's wire behaved. The spinner itself has a cam-like part at the end, that makes a wire go up and down as it spins. The wire goes below the playfield and actuates a leaf or micro switch. This being a very early 80s game uses a leaf switch. Since the wire was just hanging in there loosely, it was almost guaranteed something below the playfield had failed.
I had already mentally prepared to replace a snapped switch leaf, but fortunately the wire had just come loose somehow and this turned out to be pretty trivial repair.
But in the end I got to wipe the hall of fail board clean again!
#repair #pinball #pinrepair