Ari [APz] Sovijärvi on Nostr: Last on the board was Viking. A player had reported its spinner being dead. I glanced ...

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