Well this is a bit embarrassing, but now that I'm putting my Elvira and the Party Monsters back together, I can't figure out where the short red star posts go. I mean 4 out of the 16 star posts in this game are slightly shorter. The repair manual lists the different playfield posts etc., but does not specify the locations. I took about 450 pictures during disassembling the machine, but none of them show clearly what are the original locations of the short star posts. This is my first pinball project and all the star posts looked the same to me when I was removing them... Live and learn

Anyways, I would be super grateful if any fellow EATPM owner could check where they have the 4 short star posts. They are easy to recognise as they are shorter and have a little "neck" unlike the taller posts. My guess is two of them go to the adjustable posts on top of outlanes, but I'm not sure and that would cover only two of them.

Thanks! I'm not 100% sure, but I think there might be an error in the repair manual. I counted that I have only 13 star posts, of which 3 are short. So if I put 2 short posts as the adjustable ones there is one short post left. I think there is only one star post in the game that is located under a plastic without holding it, and that is one of the posts under the plastic on the right with the pizza carrying monster, so I'll put the last short post there.

I'll now proceed with the above mentioned idea, but it would be awesome if somebody could still check out how the short posts are located on their machines.

Ah, yes exactly! Thank you very much for your help!