For today's update, I have a couple of pictures of the Magnext iCoaster set, as well as a comparison of the original Zizzle flipper rubbers to the new standard rubbers that I bought last week.
This is the elevator that came with the iCoaster. It is basically a motor that turns a conveyor belt, that has a couple of magnets attached, inside this housing.
I tested last night, and it is strong enough to lift the Zizzle pinball straight up - though I don't expect to be doing quite that...
The elevator is of an appropriate size to fit on the playfield, and may even be able to have its shape altered once out of the housing to do some really funky stuff with.
This is a picture of the set, sans the elevator.
You can see the two optos sitting on top, and toward the bottom is the magnetic rail that I mentioned previously. Unfortunately, none of the pieces are glow-in-the-dark...
I previously mentioned that I bought new flipper rubbers, since the bats in the machine are full sized. When I received them, I thought that I had bought the wrong part, because they looked way too small for the flipper.
After some major pulling last night, I managed to stretch them onto the bats, and they look fantastic. The old rubbers are on the left, and the new is on the right - it's a huge difference.
I can't wait to see how will the flippers move the ball now!
I have started altering the flipper linkages to fit the new solenoid core, and I will be performing a full-featured test tonight, hopefully, to measure objectively which core is stronger. Assuming that these tests are successful, I'll have to pick up the other three cores this week so I can replace not only the flippers, but the slingshots and pop bumpers as well.
That's all for now...
Larry
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