Great thread... I received my update kit and thankfully I already have the newer left wireform, so that's one update done. (had to be the easiest one didn't it). The springs. I'm going to wait until the 1st one goes and I'll do them all. The mechs (beasts) insert seems like a decent job? I've had a few games with the ball getting trapped already.

One thing that I haven't seen mentioned here is the wire guides (see attach photo). I've not seen these on a pin before (although I'm new to pins) so they might be more common than I realise? Won't this pit the balls after a while running down and bouncing of these steel rails? The hobbit LE does seem to use lots of steel on the playfield.. I've thought about trying to put some spiral wire wrap around these rails and see hopefully it doesn't increases bounce too much.. not that I am concerned cause balls are cheap I suppose.

I've also noticed the two ramp flaps have started to lift up at the front, I've put some thick clear tape over them to help keep them flat but that won't last long. How does the fix mentioned above solve this problem?

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My pop bumpers started firing by themselves during game play and it turns out that switch 71 behind the rubber ring above the barrel pops was ripped causing the switch to be closed 99.9% of the time. While this was happening mine would auto launch a lot of the time too. I've noticed that if you leave a ball in the out-lane and manually press any targets etc.. it will launch the ball. So I'd check you don't have any switches firing by themselves when you nudge the machine.