Ari [APz] Sovijärvi
apzpins@mstdn.games
<p>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! 🇫🇮</p><p>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.</p>
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Post #301754
Hacks. They happen to be best of us. Last week I wrote about Elvira&#39;s multiball lock post solenoid&#39;s curious failure mode. The metal bracket that holds the coil and rest of the mechanism had suffered a case of metal fatigue. This is very unusual, as this is first of all a very weak coil that is fired very rarely. Apparently there was something questionable about the metal used in this thing. This is such a rare part that it needs to be ordered from the US, which means the doubl...
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Post #301753
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&#39;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...
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Post #301752
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
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Post #301751
It&#39;s slightly chilly, but I have a lap warmer. #cats #catsofmastodon