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Atlantis pin under the right slingshot plastic.

By Judoratt

2 years ago



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#1 2 years ago

That odd plastic on Atlantis right slingshot. I didn’t notice it until I shopped out the machine a while back with new plastics and the right slingshot didn’t fit right, I almost trimmed it then did a little research and realized there was a pin that went underneath it. Just recently read Jeff Benner’s account of the designing of the game on IPBD if some one could link. During final testing Wayne Neyens added the pin and elongated the plastic to keep the ball from draining so often. So today I installed the pin and have been playing the game and have found that it saves a ball about every game and a half or so. Possibly the best part of this is that I have 25 cents in to this fix. Steve Young sells the pin for 25c.

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#2 2 years ago

Don’t expect the pin to last long there. The reason they aren’t on most games is the ball action knocks them out pretty fast at that location.

#3 2 years ago
Quoted from Judoratt:

Just recently read Jeff Benner’s account of the designing of the game on IPBD if some one could link

Here's the relevant text from https://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=105

He placed a pin above the flipper to help block balls from rolling up the lane and draining on the right. He also extended the playfield plastic to its weird shape to help stop balls from lofting over the return lane wireform and draining.

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