Ok, need help. On my Addams Family, if I am playing for a while, and a reach a point in the game where the ball goes into thing hole, Thing comes, grabs the ball. I hear a clunk, and then I just loose the ball. The machine goes into a self test mode of actuating kickers and opening and closing the bookcase looking for a stuck ball. The ball never shakes free.
To resolve the problem, I open and elevate the playfield and at the right side near Thing, the design appears to indicate that there is a pan that the ball gets dropped into, the ball goes by gravity to the point closest to the player and then should go through a cut out in the sheet metal to a solenoid. I assume that solenoid is supposed to actuate and kick out the ball? Is it supposed to be retained in there and another ball is ejected?
When I do a test on the solenoids, that solenoid seems to work fine. I did notice that one time the solenoid rod did seem to stick some, but that was only one time.
So I looked for debris that could be in the channels and I did find one very old rubber bumper post lodged into the channel. I removed that, thinking that this would be the end of the issue as that was what possibly blocking the ball movement, but the ball still gets stuck in the whole damn thing.
Any ideas? Anybody had an issue on this?