In pinball when the ball goes down a lane it depresses a little piece of bent wire. This tells the machine to score your points. What is that little piece of bent wire called?
Mods. I put this in the wrong forum. Could you move it before everyone finds out I am clueless?
It’s called a ‘rollover wire’.
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Kind of. Modern rollovers almost all use microswitches.
Microswitches come with all sorts of different actuators, and a microswitch with a wire actuator bent into a pinball rollover shape (like this) would be called a ‘rollover switch’.
The wire itself, OTOH, is just called a ‘rollover wire’.
::Stares hard at rollover on iPad’s ‘Slayer HD’ pinball. Nope, no microswitch::
Is anyone still making physical machines?
Yes. Here’s one with new designs and one that supposedly has a license to reproduce some Williams and Bally designs.
Not a debate; off to General Questions.