Check a flipper coil for heat damage by its sleeve
Try pulling the nylon sleeve out of the coil. A sleeve that slides free suggests a healthy coil; one that is stuck means the coil has overheated and should be replaced.
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Related tips
- Replacing a flipper coil
- Flipper coil diodes must be fitted the right way
- Right flipper still dead after fitting a new coil: bad EOS switch
- One flipper dead with fuses good
- Flipper stays up after the button is released
- Set flipper rest angle and end play
- Both right flippers dead, left works: wire at a coil lug not making contact
- One flipper dead with full voltage at the coil: cracked joints at the flipper relay
Source: Repairing Bally Electronic Pinball Games from 1977 to 1985, Part Three, Clay Harrell (pinrepair.com)