The Hobbit
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I'll be having a league night at my house in a few weeks. Many members have insisted that Hobbit be in the rotation, but I'm reluctant because of the long ball times.
I'm too lazy to read through 11 pages of posts; does anyone have any suggestions about setting up Hobbit for league play? Some things I will be doing:
- set the pitch to 7 degrees
- remove the centre post
- open up the outlanes
Are there any settings that can be manipulated to keep ball times relatively short (+/-5 minutes)?
Quoted from PSUTownie:That's all it was, thanks. I adjusted the power on the trough coil to "15" and it's back playing like a champ. I wasn't aware you could individually adjust power to certain functions on these games, that's a pretty neat concept.
With that, and knowing now that I am back to "factory", are there any other adjustments others have found to be "must-do's" to dial this title in?
- remove the centre post
- open up the outlanes
- set pf pitch to 7 degrees; you may need to up the flipper strength as a result
Does anyone know where to get soft white LEDs for the head above the monitor?
Mine has bright white and the art is washed out.
For those of you who increased your game pitch to 7 degrees, did you upgrade your shooter rod spring?
Lately, I can no longer hit the drop targets under Smaug off the plunge. I know the spring was intentionally weak from the factory.
Quoted from pinballinreno:I'm at 7.2 degrees using the factory spring. Try adding a little bit of dry lube to the shooter rod. You can also stretch the spring and see if that helps. But really once in awhile a little dry lube on the shooter Rod helps a lot. Also make sure the shooter Rod isn't dragging on Anything.
Dry lube? Like powdered graphite?
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