Had time today to work on the carousel unit. Some of the rollovers on the playfield cause the carousel to spin and present several card targets to the player. So there's 2 ways to get a specific card-either by the card's rollover somewhere on the PF or hitting the carousel. Anyway, this is the familiar Gottlieb non resetting stepper unit which means brass rivets and corresponding "snow shoes" that are spring loaded and ride over the rivets to make the variable electrical connections. It also means old solidified lube on the sprockets, spindle and tube, and rivets/snowshoes. Sure enough it was caked with grease and again I was surprised that it even spy as freely as it did. It took about 2 hours but I completely dismantled, cleaned, and lubed it and put the new number decals on. The before and after pics don't look too different from each other but the internals were a mess.
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