STTNG Proto Coils

[Skyntara]

Hi Guys,

When I got my fish tales a while back I was a bit disappointed to find it had the wrong coils. Got some nice new 11629s and a flipper rebuild kit and she feels amazing.

Fast Forward to today and I bother to check the coils on my STTNG. According to the manual they're wrong, they should be 11629s like the FT. However I looked up the coils that are in it - FL-17636 and found out these are more powerful prototype coils.

They certainly don't feel more powerful than the shiny new coils in my FT. Just wondering if a flipper rebuild will make them happy again or if I should replace them. (Can coils even wear out???). If I do replace them has anyone got any opinions about the difference between the standard and proto coil power. Obviously I want the game to play how it was meant to, however easy or hard.

Cheers

Clancy

[Greg]

the coils may just need the sleeves replaced Clancy ( but if your going to be pulling the flippers apart you might as well do a rebuild )

chances are the coils are fine ( as far as I know the 17636 were made as protos for STTNG - but didn't go into production games)
I suppose the thing you have to be careful of is if the stronger coils are a little to strong and cause breakages on your plastics and so on


there's a few members that have STTNG  so the answers you get should be interesting

[pinmadd]

FL11629 in mine

[Replicas]

Be warey
The manuel was not allways correct on what coil the machine should have.
Quite a few machines as I recall were said to have a different flipper coil.
D.

[Skyntara]

Well the FL-17636 were only ever made for STTNG and only the proto machines at that so there's definitely no mistakes there. The 11629 are quoted as the standard coil in every location I've found so that also seems quite reliable.

Just wondering what people's experiences are.