The other thread we've all been chatting in was mainly a delivery thread so I thought I'd start a new one as the initial batch of machines are here now and we need a thread for chatting about tweaks/fixes/mods etc.
I'm really enjoying the machine now initial issues have or are being been dealt with, the machine is an enormous amount of fun to play.
This evening the trap door on my machine was playing up, it was frequently getting stuck in the up position. There's nothing unusual about this mech, its been seen on a lot of machines, 1 coil raises the flap until it latches, and a smaller coil is then used to release the latched mechanism. The trouble with mine was it hadn't been set up properly, the gap between the small coil and the latching plate was too large so it wasn't pulling in. There's a tab on the top of the latch plate that's supposed to be bent over and used to adjust the amount of travel the latch plate has and therefore the gap, on my machine the tab just simply hadn't been bent over at all. Simple fix, bend the tab over to restrict the travel. Searching pinside I found a link to a youtube video of the fix....
Hope that helps someone....
I'm really enjoying the machine now initial issues have or are being been dealt with, the machine is an enormous amount of fun to play.
This evening the trap door on my machine was playing up, it was frequently getting stuck in the up position. There's nothing unusual about this mech, its been seen on a lot of machines, 1 coil raises the flap until it latches, and a smaller coil is then used to release the latched mechanism. The trouble with mine was it hadn't been set up properly, the gap between the small coil and the latching plate was too large so it wasn't pulling in. There's a tab on the top of the latch plate that's supposed to be bent over and used to adjust the amount of travel the latch plate has and therefore the gap, on my machine the tab just simply hadn't been bent over at all. Simple fix, bend the tab over to restrict the travel. Searching pinside I found a link to a youtube video of the fix....
Hope that helps someone....