So took a half-day off from teaching yesterday to go pick my Congo up at the shipping center. Then had to go to the rest of work, wrestling practice, parent/teacher conferences, and then cook dinner for my girlfriend before I could get it set up to play. Spraynard came over and we got it going, after a few delays we were pretty happy with how it was playing. We called it a night at about 10:30, and by that I mean he left and I went back to playing until almost 2 am. Super fun game, and glad I took a chance on a deal that sounded too good. Going to need a bit of TLC, but right now very happy, will get some pics up soon.

Parents had to show up for that, in 4 hours of conferences I only had 7 parents show up so luckily was able to use the time to get grading and planning done for the next few days so more time could be spent on Congo.

Quick Congo question, when we first got balls installed (5) it was kicking out two balls every into the shooter lane. Removed 1 ball and problem solved. How many balls should there be? I know there is a 5 ball multi-ball, but is it counting the lower playfield ball as an active ball in that mode? Thanks.

Please ignore my stupid questions from above, read the manual for 10 seconds and figured it out.

I didn't think that was a necessary details, I ended up playing for several more hours last night, even installed the ball into the lower playfield, think the coils down there just need cleaned up and it should be playing very well then.

Agreed, I'm not great at working on pinball machines in general, my shaft an entirely different story, but I would be curious about the Congo Gorilla Shaft fix just in case that is indeed what mine needs.

As promised some pics. Whoever owned it before me LEDed the hell out of it, all the diamond inserts have color changers.

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Collin any update or info on this alternative my Gorilla definitely needs work.

Thats great news....I can't decide on the color changers either, but honestly it really does make for one hell of a light show.