Found it...right where its suppossed to be...duhh

Has anyone ran into this problem. The ball when shot from the flipper in the upper playfield through the elevator hole gets caught on plastic before it makes it to the lower playfield:
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only happens 1 in like 30 times or so, but a real drag since you have to tip machine to the right and tilt it to release the ball.

Please do, Id like to see your fix. I guess you had to take the upper playfield off?

Nice work!! I took a bit of a different approach since I had about an hour to fix it before friends came over, I’ll post pics tomorrow. Thanks for the post...

I wasnt sure if the ball was getting stuck beside the hole or just in front of the hole, on the gate...kinda hard to tell with the upper playfield off. So I had a piece of molded plastic cut out from a battery package:

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Then with some heavy duty double-sided tape, I taped it on the gate:

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and on the plastic to the side of the hole:

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Then as the upper play field was put back in place, it slightly bent the molded plastic down, so when the ball goes to that area it bounces off of it into the slot in the play field and runs to the lock stitch/ejector. I had limited time, so its a quick fix, but so far after about 25 games it has been working like a charm.

The worse part of the whole job was to make sure you don't gouge the play field with the ramp bolts that run through the play field when removing, handling and reinserting the bolts through the play field. Otherwise, the job was completed in an hour.

Just completed my topper:

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