Quoted from Damien:Wondering if you guys can chime in and tell me if this sounds like it's dialed in right:
- Mode saucer ejects ball and it hit the top of the slingshot, and then bounces over to the right flipper. Most of the videos I've watched shows it dropping to the left flipper first.
- When ball comes out of bumpers, and comes down the Super Jackpot lane, it often goes right down the middle unless I give it a nudge and save it.
- When ball is launched, it goes to the "I" in INDY about 90% of the time.
I've leveled everything nicely, so I'm just wondering if the above sounds like normal IJ activity.
Also, I know I've seen fixes for the Mode saucer rejecting balls using foam. I ended up lining the left guide and backplate with magnetic tape and it seems to have made a slight improvement.
Sounds like your playfield is not level, your cab might be, the glass might be, the backbox might be, but the playfield may not be. A good indication is everything you described. A pitch angle that is to steep will exhibit some of these same issues you are describing on IJ, or a combination of both. Broken side rails can attribute to this too as a twist can develop in the playfield. A playfield that has stood up for an extended time in the pin on the prop rod can twist and warp. Most of the side rails were made of soft wood like pine them wrapped in a vinyl that had an oak pattern on them. Widebody pins are the worst on these types of rails do to the excess weights.
I am in no way insulting your techniques or what you know, but I don't know how you did it, so I'll ask. How did you level your pin? If you did it any other way besides actually putting a level on the playfield, that may be your issue. I use a digital inclinometer on my playfields, the trick to using them is to ensure the placement is correct, when measuring an incline if the instrument is not exactly perpendicular/parallel the measurement will not be accurate.