After I few games, I had to tweak the center spinner to turn freely as it as hitting the left rail and stopping short. Targets that don't position perpendicular to the playfield make me nuts, so I straightened out the Whiplash targets to get rid of them being pidgeon-toed.

I seemed to be getting some serious airballs on shots to the left ramp, which I think were being cause by the fit of the Monger plastic in the playfield cutout. The front edge was a bit high and the back edge a bit low. I think they were launching off the back edge of the cutout. I did not see anything that looked like an adjustment to the orientation of the Monger assembly to the playfield, so I took off the piece that the plastic attaches to and changed its angle a bit to fit the cutout edge a bit better. Still not perfect, but it seems to have fixed the airball problem.

This fit concerns me. I can see wear occurring like at the back edge of the boom balloon on CV and the Drak Trak on MB. Thinking about making a mylar protector for the edge of the cutout that help avoid this.

Has anyone else this less than perfect fit? Yes, I know this is pinball, but let's get it right. Has it caused a lot of wear? What, if anything, have you done with yours?

It would be good if the whole assembly could lower itself just a hair more, but the stop screws at the bottom have no more play in them before the carriage bottoms out against the lower switch. Pretty sure it is not a good idea to have the weight of the assembly resting on the switch. Funny that the tiny screws mounting that switch are inserted so that the their heads are almost inaccessible and not to the open side.

I may just shim the assembly under the playfield and then play with the stop acrews to get a better fit of the plastic in the cutout.

Dan

Thanks Wes. I'll give that a try should the problem reoccur. Anything you have encountered that I did not mention above?

Dan

That would be great. thanks Tad.

Dan

Thanks guys. I did try bending the mounting bracket a bit and it helped, so that is a good suggestion. Same with the the stop screws. I raised them a bit and between the two adjustments, the airballs have stopped. The back edge is perfectly flush, yet the front edge is just a wee bit higher than the playfield but doesn't seem to be affecting the path of the ball.

No problems with monger hits registering thankfully.

I did discover that left ramp needed some tweaking. the ball popped up there at first drop and just sat there without falling off the opening onto the playfield. Game is level side to side. I removed the support post under that first hump and switched it with the support post below the end of the ramp at the sling. It is a bit shorter and gives the ramp a slight tilt inward. I also put one washer under each of the two side support posts on the left edge of the ramp. So I raised the left edge and dropped the right edge of the ramp, and it works fine now.

Dan

Getting the IM dialed in. Monger flap squared away. Whiplash left target staying perdendicular. Left ramp allowing ball to dump onto playfield at first hump.

Hate those the hard plastic post sleeves. Replaced them with rubber ones. A little livelier return off the posts.

Noticed the exposed pins on this little board under the playfield.

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Does everyone's have this as well? It doesn't seem anything is missing in terms of game function.

Best game so far is 106 M without the DOD hurry up bonus. I almost got to something big I think. I had all the features lit solid but monger. Started Jericho. At some point during Jericho, I started Monger and had all five features blinking. Don't know if I finished or even how to tell if Jericho is finished, but I drained without hitting the center spinner which I am guessing I needed to do.

Game seems to draw me in in a way that is different from other games. Maybe it is the shaker with the war theme. Pinball News has a good write up about IM:

http://www.pinballnews.com/games/ironman/index5b.html

The intro addresses two points:

First, I was telling Danny I didn't understand why there wasn't a IM figure on the playfield. He was laughing at me since he always hears me complaining about nonfunctional stuff cluttering up a playfield, and now he hears me wanting an IM figure on it.

Second, I was telling him how the narrated instructions were annoying. He explained how in the movie, the suit instructed IM on tactics. No longer annoyed.

Need to read through the rest of the article for the rules.

Dan

Yes, hits on the left of the target move it over to the right. I pulled the target off the the playfield and tightened the screws that hold all the switch components as tight as I could. I got to the point where I was afraid I was going to break the screws.

I played a bunch of game with a lot of hits and no movement. I think I will put some locknuts and locktight on the end of those screw in the hope of keeping them tight.

Dan

Ordered protectors and colored post rubbers from Cliffy, and knocker kit and under PF supports from PBL.

Any recommendations on sub and speaker kit?

Is 1.4 the latest update? No info on IPDB.

Need to move either the shaker or the tilt. The shaker cover prevents the tilt full travel.

Dan

thanks Shane. I will check it out. The glass rattle tape is for the translite, I am guessing.

I was surprised that the rom revision history wasn't on IPDB.

Would you mind checking the board I posted above under your playfield when you get a minute. there are two unused pairs of pins but one set is bent up as if something was yanked off. I would just like to confirm that those pins should be unused.

Dan

Had a bunch over yesterday, and IronMan did well. No airballs, whiplash target stayed straight.

Declaring it officially dialed-in!

Dan

Installed the Cliffies on the right ramp and at the shooter lane. Waiting for devliery on the under playfield supports and knocker kit from PBL, plastic protectors and red DMD cover from Pinbits and ringkit from PBR.

Next will probably be the subwoofer and speakers. Not sure whether to go in-cab or outside.

Has anyone had concerns on newer pins exposed to all the added vibrations of subs and shakers?
Unfounded? New water for me.

Dan

I'll check that out. Thanks.

None taken. I got them for better access and less chance of damaging the underside. If I manufactured pinball machines, I would be embarassed to sell games with those struts.

BTW, thanks for your posts a while back on IM settings and tweaks. They were helpful.

Good to hear.

Dan

Installed the playfield bracket supports and a red dmd screen today. Unsure about the red screen, but will give it some time

Was ready to install a new ring kit and the plastic protectors, but the ring kit wasn't even close to correct, even worse, the quantities in the manual for the rings on the game must have been for the home edition or something. How do you publish something that is so far off and doesn't even agree with location map? Some quantities were off by half. I think the usually reliable vendor sent the kit based on the information in the manual, which should have been accurate. Let me stop there.

Dan

How does pricing compare for the two approaches?

Dan