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This article is from the General Pinball FAQ, by Keith Johnson keefer@access.digex.net with numerous contributions by others.

3.3 - What is a slam tilt? (Playing Pinball)

A slam tilt is used to discourage heavy abuse of a game. If a machine slam
tilts for whatever reason, your game (and any other players' games) is OVER.
Bam. No questions asked. The two most typical places for a slam tilt switch
are on the coin door and on the bottom of the machine. There's one on the
coin door to prevent "slamming" credits on the machine. The one on the
bottom is to try and detect a drop. And some machines (though recent ones
don't seem to have these) have a sensor just under the lockdown bar to detect
slamming the top of the glass near the front of the machine. These are
simply leaf switches that signal a slam to the game when they come into
contact (though older Gottliebs had slam switches that were normally CLOSED -
this must have been weird).

Sometimes your coin door may be a bit loose for some reason. When this is
true, it will make the game a lot easier to slam tilt because of the extra
pressure provided by your fist moving forward and the door moving then
stopping and having no where else to go. A great way of reducing accidental
slams (I've brought my knee up into a loose coin door just by using body-
english before and the game slammed, even though I just grazed it) is to take
a penny (or other coin or semi-thick metal object) and wedge it into the gap
between the coin door and the frame outside it. This will effectively keep
the coin door from moving at all because of the pressure the penny provides
against it.

-- Thanks to Mark Phaedrus <phaedrus@halcyon.com> for information.

 

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