Removing the flipper pawl assembly
Steps
- Loosen, without removing, the clamp bolt on the pawl with an Allen key and open-end wrench.
- From above, twist and pull the flipper bat out of the playfield while holding the pawl.
- Take the pawl assembly out from below.
Systems
Related tips
- Reinstalling the pawl assembly and flipper coil
- Renewing the heat shrink on the flipper pawl
- 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
Source: Repairing Williams System 11 Pinball 1986 to 1990, Part Three, Clay Harrell