Quoted from Shapeshifter:

Red ones working fine on mine.
http://www.pinballcenter.eu/catalog/flipper-with-lightning-bolt-red-p-825.html?language=english
Love this mod as well. Red of course.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bram-Stokers-DRACULA-Pinball-playfield-light-Mod-/281040575885?pt=UK_Video_Games_Coin_Operated_MJ&hash=item416f52dd8d

Quoted from tomdotcom:

Search RGP, there are posts about it there...you just need some hex posts...just need to figure out the size and length...mine came with proto slings but I sold them...so ugly haha

Quoted from Fintan_Stack:

Could one of you kind BSD owners please take a close up pic of how your proto sling plastics are installed? I have some but I'm trying to work out the best way to fit them. Would really appreciate it. Thanks.

Quoted from kpull:

Thanks. Got some work to make sure I can mold them correctly. Then work on paint.
Keith

Quoted from ghostbc:

Would Lefkoff be drilling his own metal, I think not . I am Kevin from Lyons Classic PInball.
Do all BSD's have the metal hammerlite side rails ? I have only seen this on a friends CFBL.

Quoted from SDTMinSTL:

Appreciate the information. Below is photos of both the headstone, which yes, you are correct, there is not a hex post where one should be. Pictured is also my ramp from several different angles. Is the plastic top indeed missing? If you notice, there seems to be a slight bump or raise to the ramp where they meet. This seems to slow the ball enough that it goes back down the ramp more often than not. Thanks for the help. These things just aren't in the manual.
So to track these down you said the plastic top is on etsy somewhere here. Any idea on the post size and threads? I looked on Marco specialties and there are, of course, a ton of them. Now I just need to dive in and disassemble down to those hex posts that are probably in the wrong spot. Trial and error or has anyone posted a teardown? (I looked to no avail)
Again, thanks to everyone for the input. I'm a newcomer to ownership. Not afraid to get my hands dirty but it's a little intimidating not knowing where to go for answers and having the fear of asking stupid questions.

Quoted from aobrien5:

Huh. I never knew that was in there either.
Thanks for posting those pics! Also, could they not put them in the right order?

Quoted from Billc479:

Thanks Gord - I didn't want to break apart my book to scan it.

Quoted from Billc479:

PM GRB 1959. He has the manual in pdf, which would show the sizes of those pieces.

Quoted from patrickvc:

I have a quick gameplay question, when the ball drops into the left outlane off the wireforms it lands in in front of the inlane switch thus not activating it. Should it hit that switch? Or is it meant not to?

Quoted from SDTMinSTL:

Looking for some help with a ridiculous question. I am in the midst of replacing some bulbs. Where is the #16 lamp (r.ramp lock)? I have a manual but it isn't listed on the lamp diagram (of course), and I can only guess it has never worked since I have owned her because when in lamp test mode, I get nothing and I have never missed it until now.
Thanks in advance.

Quoted from marksf123:

That is great - decided to buy one....

Quoted from delt31:

I think this is it
https://cointaker.com/products/bsd-topper

Quoted from Kas24:

Does anyone make a BSD translate?

Quoted from Medisinyl:

Are you missing the clear plastic in the attached picture? (looks like it's missing in your photo). Likely the answer. Someone on Etsy sells replacements.

Quoted from hotquac:

medisinyl
Do you have a picture of how that plastic is supposed to go on the coffin ramp? My machine is also missing a plastic there and I have the same issues (hard to consistently hit the coffin loop.)

Quoted from aobrien5:

Post the pics, but you need that plastic. The etsy link is in this thread a dozen times. Or a quick Google will find it.

Quoted from dr_nybble:

The one I have is skinny and wobbles around in the hole.

Quoted from Phat_Jay:

Sounds like a personal problem.....

Quoted from Mikonos:

Thanks so much, aobrien5!
Well, I had to do some changes in my Custom Free Card, because it was problem a lighter background with chrome vinyl. I will show results below.
Before that, here is original design to compare:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/bram-stokers-dracula-clubmembers-only/page/108#post-4489268
Note: I will tray with brown colour and chrome vinyl ahead and again.
"Bram Stoker´s Dracula Custom Pinball Card - Free Play" (WILLIAMS) printed in chrome vinyl with gloss protective lamination (photo 1).
https://www.zonaarcade.com/fotos/artes/Bram%20Stoker´s%20Dracula%20Custom%20Pinball%20Card%20-%20Free%20Play%20print1.jpg
"Bram Stoker´s Dracula Custom Pinball Card - Free Play" (WILLIAMS) printed in chrome vinyl with gloss protective lamination (photo 2).
https://www.zonaarcade.com/fotos/artes/Bram%20Stoker´s%20Dracula%20Custom%20Pinball%20Card%20-%20Free%20Play%20print2.jpg
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*I take bigger screenshots and photos, click to enlarge images (and click again on display image mode if it is necessary) for avoid blur effect of pinside´s miniatures.
Regards

Quoted from TDEX:

ok! I cleaned the switch with isopropyl alcohol it doesn't seem to be sticking,however I noticed a thin strip of metal that just dangles loosely. looks like a leaf switch. if I shake the table a little it causes the drop target to malfunction. my question is
is that strip of metal supposed to be so loose?

Quoted from Pinballerchef:

How are most of you removing the rails...your method? Or are you just buying new ones to have them powder coated?

Quoted from Bryan_Kelly:

Well, I've seen some here claim they can do it. I don't think there's any way in hell you could do it, even without cleaning anything.

Quoted from Colsond3:

The red armor or the translite?
I’d be interested in grabbing one of those translites if someone can figure out where it came from.

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Quoted from Colsond3:

Looks good...I’m excited to get mine. Did you have to switch out any of your bulbs?

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Quoted from Norcalpin:

Hey guys,
Speaking of the original lightning flippers, were those more so to add difficulty to the game or necessary to hit certain ramps?

Quoted from molspin:

Hey, all. I’m about to go through a restore and wanted to know what are the ‘must have’ mods in your opinion?
Thanks in advance.

Quoted from NPO:

IF....you have it set to do so, particularly if you have the game set to empty locked balls in the castle from a previous game once you power the machine on (game ends with balls locked in castle....machine is turned off...sometime later machine is turned back on and balls are emptied out of the castle)....it does not automatically do this. It is in the adjustments....

Quoted from lostlumberjacks:

Got a Dracula playing perfect, was in attract mode last night, and all of a sudden it goes into ball search mode. Walk over to the game and notice thin layer of smoke under the glass, shut it off and figure it's a coil locked on and burned up, (been there done that) searching around and there's no hot coils. After dust settles I notice no opto's working, and then notice 12v fuse is blown, replaced it, and now I have all of the optos back, with exception of the mist long throw opto. Found the circuit board underneath got a little hot. I can replace the components but was wondering what your opinions were on the subject. (Why it blew resistors, and etc) pictures of the board. Fuse does not blow now with burned up board. (Maybe was the components time to go) ? Don't want to repeat it and cause more damage
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Quoted from RVApinballer:

Depending on the settings, some BSDs will kick the mist ball out upon booting right?

Quoted from Kiwikid:

Brought my 2nd Drac after letting the last one go and living in regret. New Mirco playfield nearly in, adding a few mods ie the side blades, colour dmd LCD, have had legs, side rails and lock down bar powder coated satin black, LEDs.
I found a pic of this coffin but can’t seem to find a place to purchase does anyone have any ideas where I can buy one as think it would look great! Many thanks
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Quoted from Norcalpin:

Hey guys,
I'm having some trouble at start up with a "magnet load error". When working correctly, I would power up the game and the ball in the mist gates would fall as the magnet moved across the playfield. I could certainly hear the magnet move every time I started the game, like a reset of some sort. Now the magnet doesn't do anything when I first turn on the game. The ball drops, a ball gets fed into the shooter lane and shot up to the right gate, but then falls and repeats the process over and over. The way I fix it is by going into the main menu, cycling through the errors and then exiting out. That seems to reset everything, the magnet moves and the ball stays up up at the right gate. Any ideas of what could be causing this?

Quoted from mikerob34:

Thanks for posting this Gord. Just got done with an opto replacement job stemming from similar issue. Replaced the optos and board but had a few other things I was meaning to do so it turned into new ramps/rubbers/cliffy's/new coffin ramp project which I just wrapped up. Extremely challenging and frustrating but your thread was a big help in troubleshooting as well as many others here. You guys are life-savers!

Quoted from fossmin:

Anyone bought this translite? If so, how is the quality? Do you like it? Looking to get the bloody version.
ebay.com link: itm
Thanks

Quoted from Zee:

Did you make any changes to the backbox lamps to suit the new translite?

Quoted from trimoto:

Has anyone ever had this happen . I turned on my BSD it loads ball in mist pocket. Starts a game then after the first ball drains it kicks another up and auto fires it and keeps auto firing . Never reloads to mist It's like there is to many ball but I checked that .
I don't see any switches being flaky I've checked switch test .
Hopefully it's a simple fix Any thoughts ?

Quoted from mbaumle:

I think the playfield looks terrific, just not a fan of the translite.

Quoted from CoolCatPinball:

Dang it. Every time I figure something out, something else happens. NOW, every time I turn the machine on, it does what seems to be a ball search. It unloads the magnet ball, fires some coils, reloads the magnet, and then plays normally. If I power cycle the game it does it again. Magnet test checks out perfect, and game plays perfect (I believe?)

Quoted from ThatOneDude:

I actually can't find these optos. Anyone have a link?

Quoted from lrosent345:

How many plastic ramps are there in this game including the subway?

Quoted from CoolCatPinball:

Don't forget the plastic piece that lifts up for the coffin lock. It's separate from the ramp.

Quoted from poppapin:

Thanks for the quick reply, I hope to get to it this weekend.

Quoted from PTHermes:

Recently joined the club and am getting a lot of rejects on the coffin ramp. I am missing the two clear plastics. Does anyone have a scan of the two clear plastics in the red rectangle? If someone could put them on the bed of a copier, it would scan well enough for me to cut out replacements.
Thanks
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Quoted from allsportdvd:

Anyone recommend a decent Alternate Translite available for this game? I've seen a couple pics but non for sale

Quoted from s000m:

Hi all,
I've been busy getting my pin ready for Pinfest here in the UK.
However I can't for the life of me to get my skillshot shooting reliably.
At present it makes its way round the orbit, through the gate and sometimes doesn't have enough momentum to hit the target and 1 in 3 times will fall short and just end up in the roll over switches.
I've tried the following
- Replaced the one way gate as it was sometimes sticking
- Replaced the coil sleeve and spring for the shooter lane coil.
- Adjusted the coil to get it to seat behind the ball
-Adjusted and fiddled with the shooter lane plastic, moving it back and forward a mm or so.
I suspect my shooter lane plastic is slightly warped as it doesn't rest straight.
The ball will often hop as it comes off the ramp and into the orbit. That's where it appears to loose momentum.
Any suggestions here would be greatly appreciated.

Quoted from gjm7777:

Can anyone confirm that in switch test, you can put your hand across the middle of the playfield - will it trigger the opto break?
Thanks

Quoted from Luke_Nukem:

Does anyone make a decal that goes on the apron over the shooter lane?

Quoted from Bohm:

It's the top of the flames that are hitting the glass on mine. I'll gladly trim the bottom if that means I can make them vertical, I just don't remember exactly how they're sitting.
Where did you get those switch covers, they look great.

Quoted from Pbgixxer:

Anyone making ramps?

Quoted from ultimategameroom:

Does anyone else have the BSD hologram? It’s not pinball related but a very cool collector piece. I also own Creature and it’s a similar type of hologram but actually better as the image doesn’t move like creature, it changes from Drac to werewolf to bat depending on the angle it’s viewed from.
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Quoted from ImNotNorm:

If I open the coin door during attract mode, fiddle around with the menu and then exit the menu the mistball on the right side of the playfield releases. Once it lands in the trough another ball gets cycled back up to the mist spot from the shooter lane.
I assume this is also normal?

Quoted from ImNotNorm:

If the ball is in the left mist slot of the playfield when a game finishes....is the magnet supposed to run to the left side and grab it out of the left slot and then drop it midway so it falls into the trough?
I ask because it just did this to me after the game ended.
Sorry for all the pestering questions. Thanks folks.

Quoted from Zee:

Rebuilding my BSD and put in a post and rubber to secure the end of the plastic over the right bumper. when I tore it down for rebuilding, there was nothing there...the plastic just hung out in space under the coffin.
Does your machine have a post there?
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Quoted from CoolCatPinball:

For real? Barry actually said that? I might consider standard flippers if that's how the game was originally designed.

Quoted from amphicar4fun:

Hello. I think that's something else.
When I connect one of the 3 optos, being 71, 72 and 73, it brings one of the magnet switches, left, right or beam. Here I connected the castle opto and brought the left magnet switch. When I cut the castle opto, also acts on the magnet left switch.
Here the video:

Quoted from Cheeks:

My auto-plunger does not get the ball all the way to the drop target. It gets close, but dies out in the lanes up top. Any thoughts on how to increase the strength since this era didn't have coil strength settings?

Quoted from Bohm:

I don't have them on mine and initially I didn't want them, now I do. Missed out on a couple of deals on them now everything I see is expensive

Quoted from RGarriott:

Well I have had my BSD for over a yr now and has been trouble free for the most part, but now I have encountered the dreaded Mist multiball issue. The ball stopped loading into the right pocket when the game is turned on and the magnet just continues to tram back and forth. I checked the optos, the left pocket activates in the switch test but the right does not. I have placed my order for some new optos, hopefully that does the trick.

Quoted from CryptKeeperAUS:

Last little update on this one so I don't end up spamming the thread. I'll be doing a one time run of these early/mid next year. Anyone who is interested feel free to PM and I'll keep a list and reach out when there is somthing fully functional to consider.[quoted image]

Quoted from CryptKeeperAUS:

For those that asked for an update, someone is getting excited for their new home in 2024. Coffin clearance issues resolved. Fully opening. Semi transparent top inkeeping with the original design. [quoted image]