Renewing the heat shrink on the flipper pawl
Steps
- Cut off the old tubing with a razor blade.
- Cut 1/2 in of new 1/4 in heat shrink tubing and slide it over the pawl tab.
- Shrink it with a heat gun or hair dryer and trim.
- Bare metal on the pawl shreds the EOS blade, can make the flipper stick up, and can short to the high-voltage EOS switch.
Systems
Related tips
- Removing the flipper pawl assembly
- Flipper coils have two windings
- How relay-enabled flippers work
- How the two windings of a flipper coil work
- Testing flipper coil diodes
- How a System 11 flipper coil works
- Flipper rebuild kits
- Replacing the flipper plunger and link
Source: Repairing Williams System 11 Pinball 1986 to 1990, Part Three, Clay Harrell