The top drop target bank has a small coil for each target that drops each corresponding letter "METEOR". I just want to rule out the fact that at the end of each ball, the target bank resets and then drops the targets that were dropped on the previous ball. If you play a 4 player game, the dropped targets are remembered for each player. This may seem like random drops, but they are not.
I rebuilt the drop target assemblies on my Meteor during the restore. Maybe consider this for the next step if the problem is not related to the above ?
Yes this assembly works.
I also had to disasemble this assembly. I found that the rod that holds the base of the target levers had slots cut into it from waring. It was less than a mm but enough that the solenoid would not push all the targets into place. I made a new rod on the lathe and now it works great.
The ones i am now haveing trouble with are the Number targets "1" and "2". I was thinking last night and thought that maybe it's just plane friction. Since the targets are new I am going to add a little graphite to the pins that go through the target base and see what happens.
