This 3 part video series covers a guide on doing a full flipper rebuild to fixing weak flippers on a Supersonic pinball machine which is a early Bally / Stern solid state pinball machine and is applicable to most games of the same era.
- Replacing the Hardware
This how to guide shows the first part of repairing the hardware under the playfield of this Supersonic Pinball Machine’s flippers. Guide shows removal and replacement of flipper plunger, link, coil stop, coil sleeve and end of stroke (EOS) leaf switch on both flippers.
2. Replacing Solenoids
Replacing flipper solenoids / coils to fixing weak flippers. This how to guide shows the second where install new coils after repairing the hardware under the playfield of this Supersonic Pinball Machine’s flippers.
3. Replacing Button Leaf Switches & Flipper Bats
Guide to replacing flipper button leaf swtiches plus changing out cracked old original Bally flipper bats with new reproduction flipper bats. Last thing done to make the flippers as stong as they can be was to repin the Connectors on plug J1 on solenoid driver board in this early solid state Bally / Stern pinball machines. This how to guide showing all the steps in this the third part of the 3 part series to fix the weak flippers in this Supersonic Pinball Machine.