Here is a pic of mine if it helps. I don't seem to have issues with hitting loops or the drawbridge.

Click the photo for ginormous size

BK2K upper flipper.jpg

Thanks for the pic I think I am right on the wall like you have shown. NextoPin that is a very neat guide. Never seen that before. I think I will revisit where my end of stoke on the new switch and the examine the stop. Thanks

Farmboss, if you want the Operator handbook from Steve Ritchie I can copy the one I have and send it to you.

Chris

Nope, that's it

Chris

Yes it's the special Steve Ritchie edition featuring all the cheat codes and passwords to get to the hidden boss level. Not really supposed to be sharing it online though.

Well now you've done it! I'm calling Steve!

LOL

Chris

New slingshot plastics arrived today. Thanks Chris. Probably going to have to play it all night now lol

Great. Everything arrive ok? You happy with them?

Chris

I'm a recent admirer of BK2K. If anyone wants to part with theirs or knows of one for sale please let me know. Would rather not ship, but beggars can't be choosers...

Thanks,

Brian

I have one on Wausau WI CL

Yes I was very pleased. Thanks. It just kills me to have that one broken plastic. All is well in the kingdom once more lol.

Has anyone scored >100M? Does it roll over or does it score into 9 digits? I've gotten close (85M) but not there yet.

I know this has been covered in other threads for LED flashers in general but I am struggling with figuring out which warming resistor to remove to get the LED flashers on this game to not fire when I hit the flipper buttons. I know I am supposed to remove the ground wire from the boards of the warming resistors but where are the boards. I haven't looked under the playfield so I am sure there are probably some there but are they all under there?

85 wow..my best is 22m. 3 ball right?

Anyone have a BK2K backglass for sale?
Yes, I bought a project missing the backglass and still searching for one.

I bought one from Mayfair. He might have another

He only had the one. It had some kind of issue in the mirrored area. How did that look to you?

Anyone lookng for a besutiful bk2k. Friend selling a nice one in Gaithersburg. Near perfect 2700. Has some tire kickers and trade offers but still Avail

You honestly have to be right up on the glass to even notice it. Its like some little specs in the mirror or something. It looks good when I'm playing so I feel good about it.

BGResto will make you a backglass.

Only downside is he cannot replicate the mirror and can only do grey (which he said looks pretty awesome still). For me personally this is better, when i choose to order one from him. I believe he wanted around $225 for it too, pretty cheap.

Go ask him, he will make it

Pass on that. I want original or close to it as possible, so the mirroring would be a requirement for me.

5 ball (factory default), but really it was the seven extra balls (fueled by 4 RANSOMs) that got my score up there. Lost track of how many times I cycled through all the Hurry-Up values.

He would need source material, unless he's done one already (though wouldn't he list it on his site if he did?) Also for mirroring, why can't he just leave those areas clear then spray it? It's not quite as good as true mirroring, but it's better than grey
http://www.krylon.com/products/looking-glass-mirror-like-paint

It looks like my roms are LA-2; I haven't changed them since I bought it. Sounds like your settings are similar to mine, except for 1 free spin in my settings. I haven't timed how long extra ball stays lit, but it goes unlit right after it tells you about it for the second extra ball, and for the third extra ball it only has a chance to flash 'Extra Ball Is Lit' twice before it goes unlit. The only way to get a fourth or fifth extra ball is via RANSOM.

I think I've figured out what's been causing an intermittent problem-- every once in a while, instead of starting multiball, the game will kick out the balls and immediately the JACKPOT= will disappear and the game will act as if it's not in multiball (I've started a 3-ball Double Knights this way before). If it's the second or later multiball, the target bank will not raise in front of the drawbridge ramp.

I'm pretty convinced that what's causing it is that it isn't seeing three balls in the lock, so it doesn't start multiball, even though it's done the lead-up to multiball. In particular, I've seen it not raise the target bank until I rattled the machine enough to presumably trigger the 3rd ball lock switch, then it raised the target bank and jackpot multiball started normally. I intend to test it with the glass off soon to verify.

I took a closer look at the lock switches with the glass off, and I discovered that the topmost of the three switches was bent slightly different than the two below it. Putting a ball through it, I found out that the ball triggered the switch if it was all the way to the left in the lock channel, and it didn't trigger the switch when it was all the way to the right. After a bit of work with needle-nose pliers, I got the switch to always trigger no matter how the ball went through it, and since then I haven't had the problem happen again. I imagine it's worse on machines tilted to the right, away from those switches.

Sweet. I fixed my BK2K problem today too. Replaced the Q6 transistor on the board and fixed a wiring problem on the relay.

I have been playing quite a bit this week since I finally fixed it. Mine will occasionally make the full loop but usually falls into the WIN lanes

Oh and I'd love to see this lightning mod when your are done.

My BK2K is about 75% LED and was upgraded by the previous owner(s). Does anyone have a preference when purchasing LEDs? Cointaker.com is the only option I've seen. I'd like to go 100% LEDs including flashers.

I buy all of mine from comet.

Thanks! Comets prices are much more reasonable. I still haven't found all of the best links for all of the repairs and upgrades I'll eventually be making.

I really like the ones I have gotten from Comet. I have never tried any from cointaker or any of the others but I am happy with these so I have no reason to try them honestly. LED flashers are super bright btw. I will try to load a video of mine. It will almost blind you.

You can see that it is super bright especially the ones around the flippers. I am thinking of replacing at least those with colored flashers the next time I make an order from Comet. I had the colored ones in my Getaway and it was still bright but not as blinding.

That's pretty impressive. The blinding effect will make it even more difficult to improve my high score. Thanks for posting the video.

My thing with the is that they really start to hurt my eyes after several consecutive games. They look cool but maybe something tone it down. I just don't like the yellow tint on the incandescent bulb which is why I went with the LEDs. I guess you cannot win them all lol.

Yeah that is nice. I have all LED in my hurricane with incandescent flashers on the playfield and it does fade nicely. Idk that yellow just kind of pops out at me though. Of course on the light playfield of hurricane it sort of is magnified.

I thought I'd share a little easter eggs that I'm not sure everyone knows of..

Back in the day, one of my arcades had a BK2K, and like almost everyone, thought that the music rocked. I would often turn the game on in test mode while doing EOD stuff, and let it play its song.

However, as you may know in test mode the chorus voices don't work - it's just the background music.

Well, you can get the chorus voices to duo their thing in test mode (at least for 01 Main & 02 2-Ball) by doing the following -

Start a game. Shoot the ball and hit one switch so that the main theme starts.
Before the ball drains (or hits an out-lane switch and starts the bonus music) enter into test mode.
Now that you're in test mode, the music tests will play the chorus as well.

(I was reminded of this while playing the game in VP, oddly.)

On my BK2K, the plunge is kind of erratic, but a full plunge will make the ball sail right by the WIN lanes and zoom towards the upper flipper at warp speed, when it gets a full plunge. It's somewhat of a skillshot to get it to fall into the WIN lanes; 90 percent to N, 9 percent to I, and 1 percent to W, I'd estimate.