been looking for a FT if anyone wants to sell theirs, let me know!

I am happy to announce that I am finally in the Fish Tales Casters Club! I picked up my FT yesterday. There are a few things I need to address and am making a parts list. One thing I noticed after setting up and playing a few games is the tail on the fish doesn't seem to move as much as I remember others moving, it's more like a "twitch" than a flip. I am thinking maybe something is wore out or broken? The coil fires strong and is loud like I remember others being. Is the tail supposed to have some more travel to it or is it just supposed to twitch like mine?

Is there anything that is common that breaks or wears out I should look at?

Thanks for the replies! I guess the tail should move more than the twitch I'm getting? I will pull the dome and take a look at the stuff you mentioned. On a side note, does anyone know where to get a replacement dome? I was thinking they were available somewhat cheap, but so far only saw one for $120 on Marco's site and they are out of stock.

My game has standard flippers on it and I don't like it, I want to put Lightning flippers on it, but would like green flipper bats. Has anyone ever heard of or seen green flipper bats?

Do you by chance know who makes the aftermarket flippers? I was thinking of getting regular yellow flippers and spray painting green, but would rather have ones made in green. Thanks for the link on the topper dome, more than I probably want to spend right now, was thinking they were cheaper, all of a sudden mine doesn't look too bad!

Thanks for the link, but he says they are 3" long, I believe that is regular length and lightning flippers are 1/8" shorter, not quite sure why he would call them lightning, but would have been cool if they were the right ones, I would have ordered a set!

Thanks for the idea, found this pic in the gallery and I do like it!

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My stretch the truth sign was leaning back farther than I thought it should. I took a look at it yesterday and figured it out. One of the spacer/posts the sign bracket mounts on was gone and the other one wasn't screwed in. I am getting ready to order some parts, I looked at the manual, couldn't find the part on the diagram, but did find what I think is right on the parts list, can anyone confirm if this is the correct part? http://www.marcospecialties.com/control/keywordsearch;jsessionid=9DBB1F16AFF0B5CC6ABA34B55857C404.jvm1?SEARCH_STRING=02-4433

yes on both side, I am missing one. Are you able to get a height measurement?

cool, thanks!

Mine does this and was actually meaning to take a picture and post about it. At the bottom of the left outer lane guide in the orbit there are 2 posts with a rubber around them that if the ball hits this it goes SDTM. I was wondering if maybe my lane guide is out of adjustment or the rubber was too thick. If I recall correctly the outer ball guide on the right is the same with a single post and a rubber ring. It does the same thing on my game, but not as often as the left orbit.

that's what I was going to look at, just haven't had a chance yet, but I'm not sure how much adjustment is in the guide itself.

That kind of sucks the shells are clear! I just ordered a new dome from Starship Fantasy and a decal from Marco. I will have to check my decal, but I bet it's the same as yours. Would probably be a good idea to contact Marco. I also like how the factory sticker hides the bulbs...

Is the drop target always supposed to be up at the Caster's Club at the beginning of multiball? The people that are getting to the super jackpots must be a lot better player than I am. I think FT has one of the hardest to achieve jackpots in all of pinball- hit the drop target, hit the caster's club then the left loop all to make one jackpot, then if you miss it, no re-light, even as mean of a game as TZ can be, no ball save even, it will give you a chance to re-light to the jackpot!

Thanks for the info! I will have to take a look at mine. I did notice sometimes it was down at a certain point in the game and other times it would be up at the same point in the game. Do you know what I need to look at on the drop target?

Thanks for the detailed post and pic! I'll have to do some inspecting and adjusting on mine.

I pulled the assembly and mine isn't looking so good. It appears it's missing something that goes from the arm to the drop target. The the push mechanism has an interesting "fix" we'll call it! The lower switch that the drop down target activates isn't hitting. The knock down coil looks toasty as well. I wonder if it's going to be a better choice to buy the whole assembly since it looks like mine is going to need more than just an adjustment. https://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=4546

Also, is there supposed to be a decal on the drop target? Mine doesn't have one.

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thanks for posting. do you have a picture of the actuating arm, and anything else that might go with it, that mine is missing? The manual lists an actuating arm guide with a part #, but I can't pull anything up under that part #. I'm not sure what it is, mine might have it.

Yeah the key is a great touch! lol I didn't check the small coil, but it looks kind of crusty; it's only $10 or $12 so I figured I would go ahead and replace it while I am "rebuilding" the drop target assembly. Good point about the drop target being hidden and wouldn't see a decal if there were one on it.

Mine kicked my arse for a while when I first got it, but I just kept playing it and eventually got better. I hadn't played it much in the past couple months, fixed the drop target assembly last week, been playing it a bunch and it's back to kicking my butt! I'm having a problem dialing in the caster's club shot lately; able to hit everything else pretty well.

Will you post more pictures of your side art blades with the playfield down? I guess they came from Tilt Graphics? He doesn't have very good pictures of them on his website installed on the game.

About 50% of my ball launches go down the left orbit and the other 50% end up in the roll over lanes and go into the pop bumpers. I'm assuming that the ball is supposed to go to the left orbit and feed the left flipper 100% of the time. I need to take a look at this and was going to check out the ball launch coil sleeve. Are there any common problems that would cause this or that I should look into?