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Joined the club! 
Got a pretty nice machine. It plays well but I’m wondering if anyone can tell me where the flippers should be aligned to? Mine seem to be sagging down slightly.
Here’s some pics of my machine…
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Quoted from Sputnik:Nice machine. Best I can tell from your pics, flippers look about right.
Sorry not a good pic for the flipper complaint… I’ll post a better pic later. Thanks!
Quoted from slochar:Most classic sterns are supposed to be up against the little pin for alignment, which is about where yours are. If you want to change the gameplay slightly you can align them more in line with the inlanes (this is the way I have mine) - I have no issues hitting the outside shots and the center shots feel better.... although I can't say I like the extreme angle the flippers go up to (think gottlieb system 3 style-v there).
Yes they are resting on those pins. I think I may go your route though. Thats exactly what I was thinking to do, was to align with the inlanes. Thanks!
Also I can’t seem to hit the ball off the end of the flipper to go into the opposite inlane (can’t think of the technical term used to describe that move). I’m thinking if my flippers came up a bit I might be able to do that? Or am I thinking about that ass backwards? 
Quoted from slochar:commonly called 'shatzing' or 'alley pass'. it's needed to get the annoying O on mine for sure, that's usually the last letter I need to complete blast off.
Yes, probably could do that with the flippers up. I've also been able to backflip on a stopped ball and get some momentum up to the switch (people do this on Skateball a lot on the right inlane because it builds bonus and is safe.... some tournaments cut the inlane wire half up so you can't do this....)
That’s it…. the “alley pass” and it’s totally need it for that damn O letter! The right side return lanes are difficult to get into so this shot would help significantly.
Quoted from clodpole:As you've heard above, the design calls for flippers "sagging" toward the pins, but we have ours in line with the return lane plastics and can make all the shots you described.
p.s. I love the demonic glowing eye dog in your pic!
Ok cool, appreciate the info, thanks!.
Ha ha… Yeah that’s our pup scrappy, he’s gotta be a part of everything.
Quoted from Xtraball:Your game looks really nice, especially the playfield. That Star Gazer looking spinner looks like it’s tempting you to nail it!
thanks, it's really in nice shape. I definetly got a very good one for sure, it was from a friend.
Love the spinners on this game!
I'll take some better pics soon and post them.
Quoted from chas10e:My flippers are set on the pins (sagging) ... I have been able to do an alley-pass occasionally to collect the "o" .... I have also been able to sweep the 3 right drop targets and suppose the sagging flippers help there.
Another maneuver the sagging flippers allow is the center-post pass where the ball coming down an in-lane , across the face of a flipper then hits the center post to bounce up to the next flipper.
It could just be that I'm not very good at the alley pass shot... 
I'm going to keep trying/practicing before I adjust them, just to be sure. I haven't played that may games on it since I got it a couple weeks ago.
I never knew about the center post bounce... I'll have to give that a try to. Thanks!
Hey fellow F2k owners,
I'm new to the club since December 2021. Got a great machine from a friend and everything was working fine until a couple weeks ago it stopped talking.
I swear I didn't yell at it, insult it or say anything to hurt her feelings... 
Here's what happened;
When I first got the machine, I noticed that every time I turned the machine on it would make a weird "very loud" yelp sound like a half spoken word or something (probably was an indicator of the issue to come)
Anyway, about 2/3 weeks ago as I was playing a game then I heard a loud high pitched kinda beeping or electrical sound and sure enough after that weird noise the speech stopped working. I think maybe my speech board took a dump and it might have to be replaced?
***The sound effects still work normal just no speaking.
I checked all the connectors on all the boards I even removed some and all the ribbon connectors and reinstalled them (I kinda did all this quickly) and plan to check things out again. But, before I do, I wanted to check here to see if this has ever happened to any of you owners and or if at least maybe someone could point me in the right direction for what to look for.
This is my first 80's machine I've ever owned so not too familiar with them.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Quoted from slochar:Believe it or not that's normal.
Reseat the chips on the speech board and if you have the ability to burn new eproms try that. I've had a couple speech boards that crapped out and was worried it was the synth chip but it was just the roms.
ok, I wasn't sure that was normal or not.
good to know, thanks.
I'll try to reseat those chips and hopefully that does it!
thanks so much for the info.
Quoted from Lovef2k:From a F2K. This has a later reproduction rectifier board with an extra pin at the far right. It isn't used on some of these games, if any.
From left to right, pin 1, solid red wire, pin 3, solid blue wire, pin 6, blue- white wire pin 7 solid green wire, and pin 8 solid white.
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Thank you!
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