My first pin also. So many "one more game" attempts at getting the jackpot.

The ramp is cracked along the seam right at the left entrance and traveling up a few inches. Any suggestions for repair? I've tried Krazy Glue with limited success.

I've had mine for four months and never waxed it before. It was like a whole new game - it felt twice as fast!

Last week, I watched a really good player explain how he plays (while he played MM). Since then I've really been focusing on just improving my skills. Then last night I watched a papa.tv video on Tron, and suddenly I feel like a different player.

Figured out a more reliable way to hit the jackpot (and stop blaming my cracked ramp). Been racking up multiple extra balls for the first time. I've recommitted to cradling during multiball - finally discovered what happens if you light all the lights after hitting the jackpot!

tldr; gotta love High Speed!

At first I was very confused, and then...genius.

Let's not turn this into a repair thread.

I'll start: my shooter knob was so mushroomed that I couldn't remove it from the shooter housing. Well, got a new shooter housing tonight, and was finally able to give it a new spring (and got the correct screws so it's more secure in the cabinet). I also replaced the right side flipper switch(es).

I swear, I'm making the right ramp shot much more solidly now. Put up several great games in a row!

When I bought it, the top of the tip was hanging by a thread (figuratively). I replaced it with a new tip, but it didn't fit correctly (due to the mushrooming). Because I couldn't pull the shooter out, I couldn't replace the spring or the shooter sleeve. Tonight I replaced everything.

Maybe someone in the past was using it without a tip...don't know for sure. But the one it had when I got it looked *really* old.

Interesting. I might try that. My new housing is a bit smaller than the old so you can see a thin border of unpainted cabinet around it.

It's not that people can't or shouldn't ask questions and get answers here, but I think if it takes 10 consecutive posts of back and forth, then it probably deserves its own thread with a link to it here. But I could be wrong, and I'm not that passionate about it.

For sure. This is the only way I can semi-reliably hit the ramp shot.

That would be my guess also. It should be giving you time to shoot that second ball into the lock.

I think you should also get the car tires squealing away sound whenever you plunge a ball (except maybe when feeding them to the locks for multiball?). So if that isn't happening, just more evidence that the switch isn't working.

I've been super confused by this whole conversation about the cover. I didn't even know High Speed had one! I've played about 1500 games on mine, which came without it, and the ball has never once flown off.

Occasionally on a REALLY hard ramp shot, the diverter will come in late and send the ball up into the glass, but it stays in the ramps and continues on along its normal path. This would almost certainly be fixed by adjusting the diverter to trigger a little sooner. I know it needs that adjustment because a few times the ball has been too fast for the diverter to catch up, so it continues through and back down to the upper right flipper.

Looks great! Though the area right under the ramp looks sad and bare.

I still don't understand why the angle of the ramp needs to change. Never had a problem with my roofless original ramp.

Quick question: what number & color bulb is supposed to be to the left of the outhole? Mine is a really bright green, and I stand at just the right angle where I have an unobstructed line of sight directly into it.

Jeff_PHX_AZ got it right. Sorry, maybe outhole was the wrong word...the escape hole. There is a bulb just left of it. Will put in a 47 and see how that goes.

Put in new double leaf switch for the right flipper button (transferring over the two big old orange diodes?) and new EOS switch on both right flippers. Now getting a blown fuse very often that happens exclusively when pressing the right flipper button (and, I think, only when hard enough to activate the upper flipper). Can anyone post a pic of their upper right flipper wiring? Wondering if I wired something incorrectly.

It's supposed to be red with the stock ramp. But maybe you can get away with something weaker on the clear ramp. Basically you just want it to be able to get all the way around.

I feel like my High Speed is rather dark. I've got mostly incandescents throughout, with some (not that awesome) LEDs installed before I got it. Also, the lights are out on the pops, so I need to fix those.

Any suggestions for brightening it up a bit? Anyone use spots? And if so, where?

For the weak flipper - it's not the gapping of the EOS, is it? If the gap is too small, the high power of the coil will cut out sooner than you'd want it to.

Also, are you always attempting ramp shots from balls coming out of the saucer? I have a really hard time with those (because the kickout is always a little different and balls don't hug the rail). However, shots into the left orbit, and all the way around to the right are *much* easier to shoot into the ramp.

I've recently noticed that on my machine - there are circles drawn on the playfield where the right outlane posts could be repositioned to...but no actual holes. Anyone else have this?

There is also a setting so that the saucer doesn't spot a free light.

Maybe you already know this, but the flashers on High Speed are like an old-school string of lightbulbs - if one of them is out, the whole string goes out.

I think he was saying the trough isn't strong enough to kick the ball into the shooter lane.

That'll be easy to fix, but it involves rebuliding/replacing some part of the mech that kicks the ball out. Best case scenario is it's a $1 plastic coil sleeve that needs to be replaced. Worst case would probably be that the wrong coil is installed ($10 to replace), but that's probably not likely.

I'd take it apart and if it looks really old and worn, replace the: coil sleeve, plunger, plunger spring, and coil stop. Other things: the connection to the coil could be loose. The coil could be loose in the bracket (and just needs to be tightened).

I think that covers most of it!

TLDR; Even if you don't have experience with stuff like that, it'll very likely be one of the easy type fixes that you'll need to learn.

There is no 2 ball multi-ball, just a 3 ball multi-ball. When it starts, you hard plunge the next ball up the ramp and into one of the locks, and then it gives you a 3rd ball in the shooter lane, which you can hard plunge up the ramp and into a lock, or soft plunge and try to trap on a flipper (to give yourself time to line up a shot before it kicks the others out).

If you can't hard plunge up and around the ramp, your spring is either the wrong kind (should be the strongest possible), or it's worn out.

Yeah. The first ball goes to the right side. Second ball goes to the left. Third ball goes to the right, and then it ejects right, left, right.