Hi everyone,
Long time, no see.
I moved house a little over a year ago and since then Pinball has been pushed down the list of priorities. It's meant that poor old Rocky & Bullwinkle has been languishing in the garage with no love.
It's all back together and playable. I've just spent an hour or two tweaking the lead switches because a lot of them weren't firing; partly because a lot of the stand-up targets have got new foam behind them and it meant they needed a serious whack to register. It's all playing a lot more nicely now, with the exception of a couple of minor issues, which i'll list below in order of annoyance/importance.
1. There is a weird flipper issue where if I hold the flipper and it's struck by the ball as it exits a loop it drops. Seems to be affecting both the left and right flipper, although it's more noticable on the right as typically it's much easier to enter the left loop. I know this model of Pin doesn't use EOS switches so could anyone suggest what it might be? The flippers have had a full rebuild and other than this issue they are performing nicely; it's much easier to make the ramp shots now.
2. Not sure if this is really an issue or not but the ball seems to have a habit of getting a bit 'tardy' as it goes down the left out lane. This means that often the laser kick fires early and doesn't save the ball. The machine has a 'home made' playfield protector so i'm wondering if this is causing the ball hang-up issue which then contributes to the laser kick issue?
3. The Aesop Hole VUK still seems to intermittently have an issue where the ball just 'dribbles' out instead of being kicked. I noticed that the little 'hat' on the VUK has a bit of slop to it so i'm guessing that how succesfully the ball gets fired is dependent on which way the hat is sitting. Would refurbing it with a VUK kit (like this https://pinparts.co.uk/products/565-0029-01-vuk-kit) solve the issue?
Other than those issues things are working pretty good.
If anyone can offer any tips or suggestions on the above i'd be very grateful.
Cheers
Pete
Long time, no see.
I moved house a little over a year ago and since then Pinball has been pushed down the list of priorities. It's meant that poor old Rocky & Bullwinkle has been languishing in the garage with no love.
It's all back together and playable. I've just spent an hour or two tweaking the lead switches because a lot of them weren't firing; partly because a lot of the stand-up targets have got new foam behind them and it meant they needed a serious whack to register. It's all playing a lot more nicely now, with the exception of a couple of minor issues, which i'll list below in order of annoyance/importance.
1. There is a weird flipper issue where if I hold the flipper and it's struck by the ball as it exits a loop it drops. Seems to be affecting both the left and right flipper, although it's more noticable on the right as typically it's much easier to enter the left loop. I know this model of Pin doesn't use EOS switches so could anyone suggest what it might be? The flippers have had a full rebuild and other than this issue they are performing nicely; it's much easier to make the ramp shots now.
2. Not sure if this is really an issue or not but the ball seems to have a habit of getting a bit 'tardy' as it goes down the left out lane. This means that often the laser kick fires early and doesn't save the ball. The machine has a 'home made' playfield protector so i'm wondering if this is causing the ball hang-up issue which then contributes to the laser kick issue?
3. The Aesop Hole VUK still seems to intermittently have an issue where the ball just 'dribbles' out instead of being kicked. I noticed that the little 'hat' on the VUK has a bit of slop to it so i'm guessing that how succesfully the ball gets fired is dependent on which way the hat is sitting. Would refurbing it with a VUK kit (like this https://pinparts.co.uk/products/565-0029-01-vuk-kit) solve the issue?
Other than those issues things are working pretty good.
If anyone can offer any tips or suggestions on the above i'd be very grateful.
Cheers
Pete
