Flipper stuck up: turn the game off to tell mechanical from electrical

If a flipper sticks in the raised position, switch the game off. If it drops back, the fault is electrical; if it stays up, something is binding mechanically.

Systems

• WPC Alpha-Numeric
• WPC Dot Matrix
• WPC Fliptronics
• WPC DCS
• WPC-Security (WPC-S)
• WPC-95

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Source: Repairing Williams/Bally WPC Pinball Games from 1990 to 1999, Part Two, Clay Harrell (pinrepair.com)