Caring for microswitches and blade switches
Microswitches need no cleaning; just adjust the actuator arm if it misses. Clean gold-plated blade contacts by pinching a piece of paper (lightly dampened with contact cleaner if you like) between them and pulling it through, never with an abrasive. Set the blade gap to about 1/16 inch (1.5 mm).
Systems
- Williams System 3
- Williams System 4
- Williams System 6 / 6A
- Williams System 7
- Williams System 9
- Williams System 11
- Williams System 11A
- Williams System 11B
- Williams System 11C
- WPC Alpha-Numeric
- WPC Dot Matrix
- WPC Fliptronics
- WPC DCS
- WPC-Security (WPC-S)
- WPC-95
- Bally MPU AS-2518-17
- Bally MPU AS-2518-35
- Stern MPU-100
- Stern MPU-200
- Bally 6803
- Gottlieb System 1
- Gottlieb System 80
- Gottlieb System 80A
- Gottlieb System 80B
- Gottlieb System 3
- Data East CPU Version 1/2
- Data East CPU Version 3
- Data East/Sega CPU Version 3b
- Capcom
- Electro-mechanical
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Source: Pinball Machines: How They Work & Troubleshooting, Norbert Snicer