I've just rebuilt my flippers on my AFM with two flipper rebuild kits. Both are aligned and symetrical both in the lowered and raised positions.
Although I'm not a particularly good player, I'm sure I should be able to get a ball up the centre much easier than I am. Also a ball can easily come to rest in on the middle of a bat in the up position (ie it doesn't roll down to the axis of the flipper bat). Now I've never seen that before.
Originally I had adjusted the bats with the "toothpick trick", but they then weren't in line with the inlane guides, so I lifted them up a tad. The machine played better, but it's practically the same with difficult SUTM shots being near on impossible from the bat (I can only achieve a SUTM shot with a ball bouncing on the flipper) and the ball still likes to stay in the middle of the bat instead of rolling down.
I've been playing like this for a while now, but have just read Clay's guide for flipper bat adjustment. He writes that the bat travel should be 2 3/8 inches. Mine is just 2 inches.
Is the 2 3/8 travel just about standard everywhere? If it is, why has the new rebuild kit resulted in just a 2 inch travel?
Should the AFM also have a 2 3/8 travel? It certainly would solve this particuular problem if it did, but then again, I don't want to be cheating!
Thanks
Goz