I just picked up a Flash Gordon two days ago, and I'm looking to order new rubbers. What's everyones opinion on flipper color? It looks like they came from the factory with yellow rubbers on the flippers, but I'm seeing a lot of kits with red rubbers instead. I hear the yellow ones can feel pretty soft and bouncy.

I'm going over this playfield and I'm planning on replacing these pop bumper mylar shields (part #: M-1787). I'm finding something similar for sale on Marco (https://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/66-MFC). Does anyone have any experience with these replacements, or can you recommend a place to buy some good ones? Also, do they need to be peel & stick or are there acetate versions? Should I just remove these now and remove all the sticky residue, or should I finish up the playfield with them on and take care of them later when I get the new protectors in the mail?
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Does anyone have any tips on adjusting the saucer kick out angle? I'm seeing in the manual that it recommends they fire in certain directions, and I'm not seeing a good way to adjust it. Plus some parts of the mechanisms are kinda loose, and there doesn't seem to be any way to tighten it up.

I just designed and printed some replacement score cards today. The Art Deco corners from the backglass were pretty irregular, so these are based on the ones from the promotional flyer instead. White paper seemed really bright, but I found some off white paper that gives it more of a vintage feel. I have another style in mind that I may try out if I have the time.

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Yes, sorry. I still needed to spell check everything before uploading. There is a black border around the cards that is meant to be trimmed off when cutting out.

Edit: Now that I've uploaded, it looks like they are being compressed by Pinside. You may be able to get better quality images here: https://imgur.com/a/5DBxTp7.
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Does anyone have a coil sleeve list? I'm not finding a list or a kit online. I could tear them all out and measure, but I'd rather only spend that time once while I'm actually replacing them.

I'm not seeing that on the Marco Bally coil sleeves section: https://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/PFLD-CSLEEVE?S_CAT2=BALLY. I think these two inchers are the closest I'm seeing: https://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/0017-00041-0673.

Had some time today while in self-quarantine (corona), so I drew and printed a mod for the Wood Beast. This area of the playfield was always ugly to me because you can see down into the cabinet and some of the wires are visible. Also, the extra ball light seemed to be in a strange location as an indicator for the shot that you need to make. I imagined a 3D textured interior that would light up when the extra ball is lit, and drew your eye to the spot target in the back that beckons you to try the Wood Beast . Here is a slow mo video of it in action: https://i.imgur.com/HeiFQyD.mp4

Edit: I printed this in glow in the dark PLA filament, but I don't think it ever gets the light it needs to charge. It was just the closest green color that I had on hand.

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I'm missing both the flash unit in the head, and the flash transformer in the cabinet. Are you saying there are some available in Germany? I haven't seen that, and would love a link.

Yeah, the pinks and greens seem too light and vibrant, and Ming looks like he has lighter skin.

I just had this same issue recently. It turned out to be a connector issue for me. I redid the pins and connectors on the MPU and SDB, and it fixed my problem.

Edit: I could have gone through each connector or pin to see which had the issue, but I decided to do them all instead. Also did the power board, but that was unrelated.

I would be buying. Either a reproduction or yours.

It looks like Marco may be working with someone to recreate the flash unit again in the future, but with LEDs this time. They have a Flash Gordon that has the flash unit in it, but they don't know the condition of the machine at the moment. It's on their radar though!

Which one/level are you looking for?

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This should get you pretty close, but you may need to finesse it to fit your machine. I measured it so you have two solid boards that you can start with, and then I have the measurements for the areas that are cut away to fit the playfields. In the screen capture example, the bottom two boards are the starting boards with cutouts lined up, and the top two boards are with the finished cuts.

Left Side
Starting Board - 33.625 x 1.688 x 0.5 inches
Upper Cutaway - 6.625 x 0.5 x 0.5 inches
Lower Cutaway - 27.125 x 0.50 x 0.50 inches

Right Side
Starting Board - 38.00 x 1.688 x 0.5 inches
Upper Cutaway - 9.00 x 0.5 x 0.5 inches
Lower Cutaway - 24.625 in x 0.50 x 0.50 inches

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Which S&T pages are you looking for? I can scan them.

I didn't see the schematic for the S&T board in either of the English manuals, so I scanned the missing pages, but I'm unable to upload to IPDB using the "Submit Changes" link on the Flash Gordon page. When I click on "Go directly to adding files," I get an "internal server error: the server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration." Here is a wetransfer link where you can download the PDF I created: https://we.tl/t-FXgyXGiOTq

Pinside isn't successfully uploading images right now so here is a link: https://i.imgur.com/hVW4o5I.jpeg. Hopefully this helps

The past couple months, I've been working with the Bally / Stern Operating System (BSOS) to re-imagine Bally's Flash Gordon game code. BSOS was created by Pinside user DickHamill, and it utilizes an Arduino Nano circuit connected to the MPUs J5 connector to take over the machine. It can easily be dual-booted between the original code and the updated code with the flip of a switch, and the whole project can be built for less than $20.

I just started a thread for this here if you are interested in more information: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/flash-gordon-2021-re-imagined-code-for-bally-flash-gordon-1981

Oh, is that because of print head movement?

That makes me wonder if they are just using a high res scan of an old playfield that they cleaned up in Photoshop, rather than illustrating everything overtop of a scanned playfield example in Illustrator. That may explain why they have inconsistent color matching issues too. If they are in PS color correcting a whole playfield instead of just making each shape the exact color it should be in AI. Either way, this Fathom rollover/insert border issue would have been an easy bleed adjustment for them to make.

Yes, I'm running this on an Alltek board with NVRAM installed.

You aren't crazy. I swear I saw them last night somewhere, but I can't find them now. They were green, and had gold print of the wood beast scorpion tail.

There should be a 6x4 (24 pin) connector in the backbox at the lower right side that they connect to. You should see it right away, if not I can take a pic. Just a heads up since you have a new power board there, you may want to replace the connectors that plug into as well.

I had old connectors that I guess were creating a lot a resistance, and as a result heat. The solder was getting hot enough to liquefy and drip from where a fuse clip was and broke the connection in the circuit. I even had a fuse heat so much that it failed on the inside breaking the circuit. Your pins may be fine, especially since half of them are new (board side).

Yes, my cable is the single 6x4 connector on one end that then splits partway into two connectors at the board (J3 and J4). EBD is Eight Ball Deluxe

It would be great if you didn't need to use the extra transformer for the flash as well