Check your Williams Flippers

[Pinballer]

The top flippers with the lightning bolt are slightly smaller in length, and were installed after the designers found the games "too easy" - thus increasing the chances of a ball going SDTM (straight down the middle).

This isn't quite correct. They were introduced at the request of the European distributors, who were getting feedback from operators that wanted less ball time per game. They thought this would lead to greater income per machine. Mark Ritchie explains this in his TOPcast interview.

[greenechidna]

i wonder if infilling them with something light like expanded foam or even silastic would add a bit of strength?

[ktm450]

Thanks mate look forward to breaking a few  . The big pain about the bracing breaking is that it makes the flipper bend a lot and so becomes somewhat weaker and of course you start looking a eos spacings etc and don't think about looking at the actual flipper bat

Thats how i noticed them in the first place, the bat flexes slightly instead to giving a nice solid flip

[casperthefriendly]

I smashed (literally) my way through two sets of the sh!tty ones on my RFM before I realised there were better ones.

I actually had the "good" ones the whole time I was smashing flipper bats into pieces. The thing that threw me was that the casting of the "W" was actually better and crisper on the sh!tty ones - from the top the "good" ones looked like the copies as the "W" was all blurry. I hadn't thought to compare the underside to notice the extra reinforcement.

[Retropin]

Ive filled broken flippers with Selleys 'Knead It" before.. works a treat