Replace metal flipper links with bakelite
Always fit a new plunger and link. If the old link is metal, use a bakelite one: it is lighter, so less of the coil's energy goes into moving it, and it wears better. Where no link is sold, one can be cut from raw bakelite sheet, with an 8-32 x 3/4 inch bolt in heat-shrink as the EOS actuator.
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Source: Repairing Electro-Mechanical (EM) Coin Operated Games to 1978, Part Two, Clay Harrell (pinrepair.com)