Is there a way to adjust the left saucer to avoid those constant drains? I catch it with the tip of the left flipper but most casual players at the arcade get SDTM.

Also noticed a strange coincidence. My kickback works every time EXCEPT when I’m playing an extra ball, then it won’t activate. Happened 3 times now. Works before and after the extra ball but will not kicksave the extra ball.

Curious if the ramp is supposed to be backhandable? My flippers seem extremely strong, and they’ve already broken 3 drop targets, yet the ramp requires a PERFECT shot or it won’t go. Just checking if this is by design or maybe something’s wacky in the flippers.

I figured that was old news.
The second I got mine I noticed it. Those sly dogs at the DE art department!
The shit-eating grin really brings the piece together.

I imagine they told the line guys “to line up the flipper guides, just make sure to nail him in the crotch”

Any sources for the blue dome? I called Steve and he gave me an earful. He loathes that I always call him for DE parts. Paraphrasing slightly: “Respectfully, maybe you should look into buying a different manufacturer, one that actually did QC?”

This is how mine is as well, and I can vouch that it has never been touched from the factory. This guy didn’t fix ANYTHING.

I ordered mine about a month ago and Steve said he was out of the translucent yellow standups. Are they back in stock?

I should have clarified, Steve is the owner of Pinball Resource, he’s the “grumpy” guy on the phone. Did you email them instead? I’ve never gone that route.

I would recommend saving an old boards and selling them to someone who wants to fix them (nothing really beats rebuilding the Originals) or sell them with the game when you sell it. I always appreciate getting the old boards with a game even if they don’t work at the moment!

My LW3 is having some sound issues. The game constantly says “we’re back in action!” over and over again while attempting to play the music. The music cuts in and out or sometimes totally disappears but the sound and noises all remain.

Where should I start looking, or does anyone know what the issue is? For reference this game is bone stock, been on route it’s entire life and never had any upgrades or rebuilds. I repinned half the burnt connectors already, but otherwise it’s been a tank.

Holy sweet lord, HOW?!? WHERE?!?

I’m having a new issues today on my lethal weapon. I posted about my sound randomly resetting when the volume gets too loud, such as when multiball starts it keeps saying “we’re back in action!”

Now the left flipper is staying energized. In the middle of my game this morning when I fired up the arcade, the left flipper engaged and stayed on, low power, and when I opened the door I felt the coil and tried tugging the link. It’s not magnetized or bad stops, it’s definitely somehow staying energized, but the flipper button is open.

Any idea what could be causing such a strange issue?

Is it possible for someone State-side to acquire one of the rare NOS domes and send them to one of the ramp makers for them to make new plastic domes?

I’m having the reverse issue that the flipper hold
power is locking ON. However his video seems to suggest maybe the transistor is locking on the flipper board. I’ll give it a check

Can someone with an original dome take some clear pictures of it with the plastic off? I don’t want to replace mine, I’ll get this one working. I think it’s missing some sort of connector between the reflector and the motor. It’s different than a Mars light.

That what I was asking for above.

Swapped in a working flipper board, the rottendog replacement I had way back for my checkpoint.
Same issue.
Think I found the problem.

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Wow then what resistor is the one that’s burnt up?!

No. But I tried pulling the low voltage fuse and then the high voltage fuse for the left flipper and in all cases (one pulled, than the opposite pulled than both pulled) the flipper still would energize and the hold circuit would lock on. It didn’t seem to blow any fuses or anything.

As mentioned I swapped to a working flipper board and same issue. Fuses pulled same issue.
Worked for several months on route prior without issue. Also was routed it’s entire life in a bowling alley with minimum upkeep until I got it

Oh, they still work even with that resistor totally smoked. Any idea?

The flipper board ended up blowing the fuse after all, and I swapped in a rottendog and my brand new board let out the magic smoke. Blew up C46.
Pretty pissed off. Might start a tech thread. Any suggestions on what to check?
Again the issue is intermittent left flipper locking on. Happened with both the original CPU and the rottendog. Happened with both new and old flipper board.
What else may be the issue here, possibly the PPB board?
Very Frustrated chasing this.

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Looked good! Had weird results testing it. Went to bend it away from the coil to test better and found this:
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Broke right where it meets the flipper! Strange and sneaky!
The diode and flipper intermittence suddenly made sense. This stupid diode issue also caused the transistor on the flipper board to blowup so that’s why it was hard to track. One issue had caused 2 that made the flipper stick!
What’s the part # for the flipper transistors?

I tried, it was bad anyway.

Now it’s good as new! I’m so happy

Gonna use this on my BPM which chews up the sides when you lift the playfield!

Not a fan of toys, but I like 3 because the back right corner is barren and forgotten. Thanks DE!
2 looks really cool but that area is so busy that the motorcycle gets lost in it

WEIRD ISSUE!

I walked up the my LW3 on location, and the flippers don’t work, the shooter lane doesn’t work, and when you hold the flipper button it activates the kickback/laser-kick.

Any ideas what would cause this?!? This is the 2nd major issue it’s had and the power supply was recently rebuilt. The other day it was locked up with no images and total garbage in the RAM. It ruined 30 years of audits I was pretty upset!!

I’ve got all the weird ones on location! LW3 is fairly popular.

Turns out Q3 fried for some reason. Not sure why. Blew up the fuse which also powers the auto-plunger and flippers.