Dragon help

[flippnaussie]

A mate of mine has a dragon and it has got a problem. While it was being played, smoke came out from under the play field and the bad smell.
Having never worked on one before I looking for what I need to check/look at first. Or have you seen the error/problem before?

Simon.

[Strangeways]

Under the playfield = sounds like a fried coil. Have a look at the coils - the wrappers might be burnt off. Could be flipper coils.

With the game off - check each coil by manually moving the plungers etc.

[Pintoxicated]

Sys 1 machines typically have a round transistor mounted under the playfield as well, it could have fried if it wasn't a coil. 

[andypinboy]

The singer was a heavy smoker - I think that may have killed him. Always a problem.

[flippnaussie]

Thanks for the tips Guys.
I finally got around there last night and nailed the problem straight away.

To hold the pop bumper lamp in place some one used bluetac. after some hours of play the bluetac melted down the innards of the pop bumper, jamming up the switch/spring. Which in turn left the bumper on......Melted coil/blown fuse.

Some other things found included broken diodes on the flippers and wires disconnected from the left side target as it is not supposed to be working. Need help on that one.

Check out the pics...

Simon.

[Slash]

The bluetac is pretty funny.  But I have to say I was wondering for a bit how to get the damn pop bumper lamps into those sockets recently.  You had to use a fair bit of force and I had visions of the globes shattering in my hand and cutting me.  I eventually got them in, but I can see why someone might have looked for an alternative solution to hold them in there - as stupid as their fix was.

[pinball god]

Now who would have thought that blutak would do such a fine job. I think I might try some no more gaps on something in my games soon just for the hell of it. Jeeez some people???

[pinsanity]

The singer was a heavy smoker - I think that may have killed him. Always a problem.

Marc Hunter spent too much time chasing the dragon which didn't help either.

Now who would have thought that blutak would do such a fine job. I think I might try some no more gaps on something in my games soon just for the hell of it. Jeeez some people???

At least it was blu-tac and not araldite. Now there is some vapour you don't want to inhale.