I do got one sealed I could bring. Hmmmmm

Pinball machines come and go, the people who have copies of toonstruck tend to keep those forever.

Man you got the perfect 3 pins. It has taken me a number of years to achieve the same. I added TAF a month ago and I am now in the club.

You mean AF, TZ and FH! I agree! Can't beat Pat Lawlor.

Those are 3 amazing pins too. I was talking about IJ, TAF, TZ. FH is awesome too. Pat Lawlor pins are great. Now I have to figure out if Dialed In is as good as TZ and TAF.

DI is a good game. I have played it a few times. I am waiting for my Houdini to be built that is more like the pins I have now. TAF and TZ are classic! LOTR is my favorite and TZ is close to the top of my list.

I sold my LOTR LE to fund IJ. I miss it but I really like IJ a lot. It was a good trade. TZ is my second favorite. I owned it early on and sold it. I regretted it so I bought it back a year ago. I am slowly adding mods and LEDs. TZ looks awesome in LEDs.

The super pins are great! I am keeping all my pins. I have put a lot of time and work in them. They are in real nice condition. FH has very small playfield wear though. I went 100% LED in all mine. The colors are so much better now. I got a 2nd SW. That is the only one I would not miss. Should have done more research before my early purchases.

Here is a cool paint job I did on an old thing hand from a customer. I add realism , including age spots, veins , freckles and shadowing. Special attention given to the fingernails to make even more creepy , perfect for Halloween. These and other neat-O mods can be found at www.modfatherpinball.com

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Joined the club about 18 months ago after dreaming of doing so my entire adult life! Lots of small (reversible) mods done so far, including pretty much everything Lee makes (awesome products!) and upgraded speakers. Lots planned for the future (PinStadium lighting, ColorDMD, etc)...

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Last Halloween:

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I'm going to order some of the "unobtainable bookcase rubber pads." Shipping to the U.S. is $24.35 whether I order 1 or 10. Who wants one?

http://shop.mrpinball.com.au/product/rubber-bumper-pads-3-3-x-1-23-used-on-taf/

I have a sheet of the blue rubber for the bookcase. It would need to be cut and tape applied to secure. I can sell some to someone if they have the interest to cut and distribute.

Updated to add picture. It’s 1/4” thick.

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I could use a bookcase rubber or 2. Currently I have 2 monopoly bank pads stuck together, seems to get the job done. But rather have the right stuff

Thanks Man,
PM sent .

Ok, so far I have 2 for Johnny Phantom, 2 for golfingdad1, and 1 for poffenroth. I messaged mrgregb123 to find out who else missed out on his group buy, but haven't heard back from him yet. It looks like the thread isn't getting a ton of traffic, so I'll probably wait until early next week before placing the order.

The pads are $3.96 each, plus the shipping to me cost of $24.35 divided by the number of pads, plus the cost of shipping from me to you. If we go over 12, shipping to me jumps to $38.37, but I'm ordering a couple other things as well just for me, so I'll first calculate the shipping cost just for the pads. It should go without saying, but I'm not going to charge anyone a penny over what it actually costs me.

They also have a square version and a round plug version, if anyone is interested in those.

http://shop.mrpinball.com.au/product/square-pad-blue-rubber/
http://shop.mrpinball.com.au/product/rubber-bumper-pad-plug/

It also looks like this guy is the only supplier with a Thing box base & cover in stock. Price isn't bad, so I'll be picking one.

http://shop.mrpinball.com.au/product/addams-family-thing-box-base-cover/

Alex, where did you get those AWESOME dust covers??

Customized beach towels!

Clever boy!

So my lower left GI lights were out. F110 fuse was fine. Wiggled the J120 connector a little and they came on dimly, but were flickering. Disconnected the connector a couple of times and then reseated, and the lights are no longer flickering, but definitely dimmer on the left side. Faulty connector?

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Probably oxidation - after 25 years the metal gets corroded/oxidised and just doesn't connect as well as it used to. This is why a lot of guides recommend replacing connectors and pins, especially if you have noticeable issues or resets. You can try a deoxidiser spray - I always try that first but I am not sure how well they actually work.

Great Halloween costume btw! And great selection on pins!

Hahaha! Thanks!

You could try looking for a solder joint around the pin on the board. Sometimes a crack around the pin can cause a drop in voltage.

Thanks, I’ll look for that too. The white/brown wire at the bulb end has solid solder connections, but maybe there’s still a crack at the pin. I’m thinking oxidation is the most likely culprit, since removing the plug and reseating it several times definitely helped. The more I did it, the better it got, so there was definitely some reduction of oxidation through friction. DeoxIT spray will be here today. If that doesn’t cure it completely, I’ll look for other sources of possible voltage drop. If the pins are in good shape, I guess I’ll replace the connector next.

OT: https://www.themarysue.com/addams-family-cg-animated/amp/

Presumably, it’s to prevent the bookcase from cracking from repeated hard ball strikes... same for at the end of the ramp, before it drops to the upper left flipper.

I’m happy to report that the DeoxIT spray I got off Amazon worked perfectly. Shot the pins and the connector twice and let dry, per the instructions, and now the left lights are just as bright as the right, with zero flicker! Thanks, Rdoyle1978!

Ok, last call for the impossible-to-find blue pads. I'll place the order tomorrow.

Here's who I have so far:

Bookcase pad:

Johnny Phantom - 2 (if you only want one, let me know)
golfingdad1 - 1
poffenroth - 1
LitzDoc - 1 or 2 (if I don't hear back from you before the order, I'll just order you 1)

Square pad (like at the end of the ramp):

golfingdad1 - 2

Anyone else want a square pad? I'll be swapping my ramp for a clear one, so I'm definitely getting a square pad or two for me.

http://shop.mrpinball.com.au/product/square-pad-blue-rubber/

I will take 2 blue pads and 2 square pads for the ramps. Thank you very much for organizing this.

Updating the list here, for ease of reference:

Bookcase pad:

Johnny Phantom - 2
golfingdad1 - 1
poffenroth - 1
LitzDoc - 2
ForceFlow - 1
BR80 - 1
pinballinreno - 2
jimmyb - 1

Square pad (like at the end of the ramp):

golfingdad1 - 2
ForceFlow - 3
LitzDoc - 2
pinballinreno - 2

I will take one square pad too please. Thanks

List updated. Will place the order tomorrow.

I need 2 blue square ramp pads. thanks

Ok, updated the list. I did find the square pads elsewhere for $.95, as opposed to $1.40.

http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=689

http://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/23-6629

Not a massive difference, but if anyone is planning to order from Pinball Life or Marco Specialties and wants to get the square pads from them instead, let me know. At current numbers, the square pads don't add anything to the shipping cost.

I would like 2 of the square pads and 2 of the bookcase pads please if it isnt too late.

List updated.

I'm in for bookcase rubber please!

List updated.

Hey there. Recently bought a TAF table for our game room. I’m curious what the “Install 5-Ball” option does other than change some minor behaviors. Can you actually load two more balls and have 5 ball multi ball? It seems to be different than simply 5 balls per game, which is another setting. The manual doesn’t go into too much detail. Thanks.

No, its a 3 ball game. Trough only registers 3 balls. 5-ball , 3 -ball is how many balls played during game.

Thanks, but why would they put 5 balls per game in two different places and call it two different things? It's under A.01 ("Balls Per Game") and U.06 ("Install 5 Ball"). The table in the manual also shows "Install 5-Ball" "Balls Per Game" is 3, which doesn't make any sense to me if that's the case.

The operations manual page 1-23 says that just changes settings to be appropriate with a 5 balls/game. I assume that changes some of the other default settings that make it harder to get to multiball, etc. (a quick way to change a bunch of difficulty settings at once)

Are the column headings in the manual are reversed?
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That’s what’s confusing to me.

From Halloween 2014. My brother, my wife and me.

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