The Mother Ship
One of the two reported faults of the pinball machine, was that the LEDs in the Mothership weren’t working. Time to find out why.
Bearing in mind that the Mothership Assembly is suposed to be like this:
I was surprised to find that the spring support under the mothership had been replaced with a rubber post cover:
and that the metal tab of the mothership bracket, which the plunger from the coil should hit to vibrate the mothership had broken off, so that the actual mothership was used as the target for the plunger:
resulting, of course, in a broken mothership plastic:
Not only that, but the housing for the coil assembly had got really hot at some time, resulting in a warped housing:
Oh, and on taking the assembly appart, I discovered why the LEDs hadn’t been working: there weren’t any!