Find out if score reels are stopping the start-up
Steps
- Switch on and start a game; watch whether every reel goes to zero.
- If not, step each reel to zero by hand and try again.
- If the game now starts, cleaning the reel mechanisms may be the whole cure; if the motor still runs, look at the zero switches.
Systems
Related tips
- Score reels by maker
- How score reels come out, by maker
- How the score motor resets the reels
- Clean the score reel relays
- Bally score reel relays
- Players 3 and 4 reset but players 1 and 2 never do at game start
- Service Midway motorized score reels
- Parts common to solenoid-driven score reels
Source: Repairing Electro-Mechanical (EM) Coin Operated Games to 1978, Part One, Clay Harrell (pinrepair.com)