More stripping and repairing the scoops
Whilst taking off the lower right flipper today, I noticed that the pawl had been fractured. So it looks like I’ll have to rebuild both lower flippers using new parts (instead of repairing them, as with the upper right flipper).
Damaged plastic link on lower right flipper pawl
I also decided to remove the entire subway assembly (which transports the pinball from Thing’s box to the Swamp) so that I could clean it thoroughly. To be honest though, I had been put off by doing this, as I had been stumped by the problem of removing the scoop. I just didn’t know how best to remove the screws on the right hand side of the scoop, which were difficult to get to, because of the limited space. But then I came up with a solution, using a standard nut driver and an extension taken from another toolset
Removing the Thing box scoop from the underside of the playfield
Also took my Electric Chair and Swamp scoops to a metal worker to be rewelded today.They finished off welding the metal tabs from each side on both sides of the tab to improve stability.
I was happy with the results even though there was some discolouring of the scoop itself (which shouldn’t be too visible once the scoop is built into the pinball machine).
Repaired Swamp scoop
Repaired Electric Chair scoop
View of the Electric Chair scoop from frount showing discolouration