I am having a random problem that is slowly getting worse and I have misplaced the schematic

When starting up a new game it will sometimes go straight to 'tilt'. Push the game up button 1 (or more times) and we carry on. So far it only does this when starting up a new game on the player 1 cycling up and does not happen during game play or even when continuing to add player 2, 3, or 4. While my daughter and I played last night we had a few games were we have to give it 4~5 tries and I thought to myself this might become a real problem soon.

I was hoping as we played more games it would get better and clear itself up - wishful thinking on my part

Thoughts / Suggestions?

thanks for the reply (and for the schematic tip, good idea in hindsight).

Thank you for the reply - I hate this site does not email on new replies. I’ll give this information a look!

Thanks again!

After having the pinball in storage for a long time, I revisited this today as it was getting even worse before my eyes. So I disabled the Player one Tilt (there is one for each player). After this what I found was the ball selector was dragging returning to 1 on new game - not sure how I missed this. I removed the spider arm, then cleaned everything up and then gave the spring one extra turn. Now after it counts up to ball 5 and on new game the arm returns to Ball 1 lighting fast.

I then re-enabled Player 1 Tilt and all is great on new game start up. Hasn't failed to engage ball 1 / game on without titling after 20~30 test games.

Just thought I'd follow up after 1,337 days