CONGO CLUB....Owners Only!

Quoted from billsfanmd:
who sells the lane guide stickers that cover the steel lane guides?

These are way better then the stickers.
http://www.pinball.center/en/shop/pinball-parts/playfield-parts/plastics/3956/lane-plastics-for-congo

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#1905 5 years ago

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Yesh23

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I just picked up a Congo and the lower playfield had yellow led's in it. I did the rest of the game in Comet day lights. Curious what other folks have done? The yellow gives it a semi erie feeling but am I missing artwork without the day lights? Any other cool schemes that people have done? Please show

#1906 5 years ago

monkeyboypaul

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Quoted from Yesh23:
I just picked up a Congo and the lower playfield had yellow led's in it. I did the rest of the game in Comet day lights. Curious what other folks have done? The yellow gives it a semi erie feeling but am I missing artwork without the day lights? Any other cool schemes that people have done? Please show

i also lit the lower playfield GI with Comet frosted yellow/ambers and a purple each side at the rear (nearest the gorilla).
Also use GI OCD because Congo has some excessive GI dimming!

#1907 5 years ago

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Yesh23

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Quoted from monkeyboypaul:
i also lit the lower playfield GI with Comet frosted yellow/ambers and a purple each side at the rear (nearest the gorilla).
Also use GI OCD because Congo has some excessive GI dimming!

Do the purple add much by the gorilla? What does the GI OCD board actually do? I have Comet Daylight 2 way frosted in all the GI's

#1908 5 years ago

monkeyboypaul

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http://ledocd.com/faq_gi.html

Quoted from Yesh23:
Do the purple add much by the gorilla? What does the GI OCD board actually do? I have Comet Daylight 2 way frosted in all the GI's

Congo's GI dims quite a lot, as designed for incandescent bulbs, unless it's disabled in the settings.

LEDs will flicker instead of dimming. GI OCD adapts your machine's dimming circuitry to allow LEDs to dim correctly, behaving like bulbs. The cheapest way to restore 'as factory' dimming is to use incandescent bulbs again as GI OCD is not cheap, but works well if you want to us Leds in the GI AND have the dimming effects.

See 5mins & 7mins for 2 quick examples of a Congo dimming with incandescents.

#1909 5 years ago

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jawjaw

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Quoted from Yesh23:
I just picked up a Congo and the lower playfield had yellow led's in it. I did the rest of the game in Comet day lights. Curious what other folks have done? The yellow gives it a semi erie feeling but am I missing artwork without the day lights? Any other cool schemes that people have done? Please show

I used comet frosted yellow bulbs in lower playfield. Last two sockets close to guerilla I used purple flex bulbs to shine right on guerilla. I also used sunlight for gi and really like how it looks.

#1910 5 years ago

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Yesh23

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Quoted from jawjaw:
I used comet frosted yellow bulbs in lower playfield. Last two sockets close to guerilla I used purple flex bulbs to shine right on guerilla. I also used sunlight for gi and really like how it looks.

Great idea using the flex bulbs. Do you have any pictures of how it looks?

#1911 5 years ago

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Yesh23

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One last question. When you lock the balls in the volcano and you start multi-ball does everyone's balls hit the top of the glass? Mine seem to hit the glass fairly hard and I didn't know if my coil was firing too hard or if that was common

#1912 5 years ago

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Quoted from Yesh23:
One last question. When you lock the balls in the volcano and you start multi-ball does everyone's balls hit the top of the glass? Mine seem to hit the glass fairly hard and I didn't know if my coil was firing too hard or if that was common

Definitely not meant to happen. Guess check the VUK coil's voltage?

#1913 5 years ago

monkeyboypaul

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https://mantispinball.com/product/congo-volcano-weldment/

Quoted from Yesh23:
One last question. When you lock the balls in the volcano and you start multi-ball does everyone's balls hit the top of the glass? Mine seem to hit the glass fairly hard and I didn't know if my coil was firing too hard or if that was common

Your VUK is knackered! Specifically the top lip that slows & diverts the ball. Get the reinforced Mantis version.

#1914 5 years ago

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jawjaw

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Quoted from Yesh23:
Great idea using the flex bulbs. Do you have any pictures of how it looks?

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#1915 5 years ago

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Mitch

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So why is a gorilla purple?

#1916 5 years ago

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jawjaw

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Grape ape? I know, clown puke police will write me a ticket. Tried some things but wasn't happy with it.

#1917 5 years ago

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I've struggled with that area too. I've tried white, yellow, orange, red, purple, and even fire/flame. Right now I'm using orange bulbs. I thought the purple might work since it was inside of that purple colored temple, but it drowned out the orange lava. I may order some more flexes and play with that a bit. What I ultimately want is for the surrounding area to have a purple hue to match the temple on the playfield, but to still see the orange lava and grey gorilla. What I'm considering trying next is to have the GI all purple, but add white from behind the gorilla and behind the target bank.

#1918 5 years ago

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Yesh23

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Quoted from jawjaw:
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Looks great. I think you have me sold with the purple

#1919 5 years ago

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jawjaw

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One thing weird about my game is I had to put an incandescent flasher behind the guerrilla. A led flasher would flash when I hit the flippers for some reason. Same for one flasher in the backbox.

#1920 5 years ago

monkeyboypaul

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Quoted from jawjaw:
One thing weird about my game is I had to put an incandescent flasher behind the guerrilla. A led flasher would flash when I hit the flippers for some reason. Same for one flasher in the backbox.

Snap! Must be a design flaw somewhere.

#1921 5 years ago

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Axl

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Quoted from jawjaw:
I know, clown puke police will write me a ticket.

That’s not a misdemeanor, that’s a felony!

#1922 5 years ago

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ufiti

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Quoted from jawjaw:
One thing weird about my game is I had to put an incandescent flasher behind the guerrilla. A led flasher would flash when I hit the flippers for some reason. Same for one flasher in the backbox.

Same thing here. Didn't realized it doesn't do that with incandescent.

#1923 5 years ago

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Mitch

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Quoted from jawjaw:
Grape ape? I know, clown puke police will write me a ticket. Tried some things but wasn't happy with it.

What about blue to match the blue gorilla insert

#1924 5 years ago

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jawjaw

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https://pinside.com/pinball/market/shops/1032-lighted-pinball-mods/01755-congo-lighted-magnetic-hinge-covers-yellow-limited-editon

Quoted from ufiti:
Same thing here. Didn't realized it doesn't do that with incandescent.

I guess it's not just my game then. I had to work out a lot of issues with my game so wasn't sure if something was still screwy. Put an incandescent in there and it will work correctly. I forget which one in the backbox did it as well but regular incandescent works correctly there as well.

Quoted from Mitch:
What about blue to match the blue gorilla insert

I don't really like blue leds for some reason. Might try ice blue from comet. I've been trying to get an order for comet bulbs but they have been out of stock of one bulb I need for weeks. I love comet but seems like every time I order there are bulbs out of stock.

#1925 5 years ago

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lpeters82

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I did some playing with the colors on my lower playfield. I ended up with all orange with an LED strip behind the gorilla. I'd still like to try to find a way to make that purple in the playfield artwork to stand out more, but so far I haven't had any luck. I may try mixing in some white flex bulbs, but I didn't have them on hand.

#1926 5 years ago

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#1927 5 years ago

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ufiti

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Anyone else get airballs off the left ramp that bounce over the "RELIGHT KICKBACK" plastic and straight out the left outlane? It used to only happen very rarely for me, now much more often.

#1928 5 years ago

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jawjaw

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How does that work? The ball should go up the left ramp and hook down right? I can't picture the ball deflecting down left. Is your ramp flap bent up? There also should be plastic cover over the back part of the ramp in from of the guerrilla.

#1929 5 years ago

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Yesh23

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Quoted from monkeyboypaul:
Your VUK is knackered! Specifically the top lip that slows & diverts the ball. Get the reinforced Mantis version.
https://mantispinball.com/product/congo-volcano-weldment/

It looks like the top of the lip is busted off. I couldn't find in the manual how the above assembly is installed but if I click on the link, it looks like it's straight up and down and doesn't have a lip in the picture.

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#1930 5 years ago

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Yesh23

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Does anyone know where to get the decals for each of the sides on the lower playfield?

#1931 5 years ago

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Mitch

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Quoted from Yesh23:
It looks like the top of the lip is busted off. I couldn't find in the manual how the above assembly is installed but if I click on the link, it looks like it's straight up and down and doesn't have a lip in the picture.
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Your VUK is destroyed and it broke the top of the volcano too. My volcano is broken too but I have the new mantis vuk works awsome.

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#1932 5 years ago

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Mitch

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Quoted from Yesh23:
Does anyone know where to get the decals for each of the sides on the lower playfield?

Planatary pinball but not cheap

#1933 5 years ago

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Mitch

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https://mantispinball.com/product/congo-volcano-weldment/

Luckily I have a nos volcano

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#1934 5 years ago

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Quoted from Mitch:
Luckily I have a nos volcano
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#1935 5 years ago

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mwong168

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Quoted from Mitch:
Luckily I have a nos volcano
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Make sure you install the new and improved mantis volcano scoop if you ever install this NOS volcano ramp in your game.

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#1936 5 years ago

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ufiti

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Quoted from jawjaw:
How does that work? The ball should go up the left ramp and hook down right? I can't picture the ball deflecting down left. Is your ramp flap bent up? There also should be plastic cover over the back part of the ramp in from of the guerrilla.

To clarify, the ball isn't going up the ramp at all, it is bouncing off the standup target at the bottom. Pretty similar to the Ghostbusters airball issue I think.

#1937 5 years ago

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jawjaw

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Quoted from ufiti:
To clarify, the ball isn't going up the ramp at all, it is bouncing off the standup target at the bottom. Pretty similar to the Ghostbusters airball issue I think.

Check the padding behind the switch face. The back plate might be bent back as well. I had that problem on my Shadow and got reinfoced targets:
https://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/A-18530-6R

You can try to bend it back straight and use extra padding.

#1938 5 years ago

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ufiti

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Quoted from jawjaw:
Check the padding behind the switch face. The back plate might be bent back as well. I had that problem on my Shadow and got reinfoced targets:
https://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/A-18530-6R
You can try to bend it back straight and use extra padding.

Thanks, I'll try that! The padding does look pretty beat.

#1939 5 years ago

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Yesh23

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Quoted from Mitch:
Planatary pinball but not cheap

I didn't seem to find it on Planetary's website, any other ideas?

#1940 5 years ago

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Mitch

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http://www.ministryofpinball.com/en/game-specific-items/williams/congo/congo-mini-playfield-decals.html

Quoted from Yesh23:
I didn't seem to find it on Planetary's website, any other ideas?

a quick google search " congo lower pinball decals " found this

#1941 5 years ago

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Yesh23

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Quoted from Mitch:
a quick google search " congo lower pinball decals " found this
http://www.ministryofpinball.com/en/game-specific-items/williams/congo/congo-mini-playfield-decals.html

Thank you Mitch for the find. Unfortunately they're out of stock right now

#1942 5 years ago

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Mitch

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Quoted from Yesh23:
Thank you Mitch for the find. Unfortunately they're out of stock right now

Damn, sorry I didnt notice that. I'd send planatary pinball a email see of they are making more maybe?

#1943 5 years ago

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Yesh23

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