Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast (LE)
Stern, 2018
Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast (Premium)
Stern, 2018
Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast (Pro)
Stern, 2018
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New pro owner here, 27 pages is a lot of reading, can someone point me in the right direction to fix balls flying off the left wireform? pretty sure its not reaching the end of the wireform, flying off on one of the bends. Is there a way to slow the ball down?
To follow up on my own ' ball leaving the wireform ' post above, the issue with mine seems to be down to small divots in the rail made by the spot welding machine clamping too tightly. Every joint on both of my wireforms has these divots/depressions in the rail, but one in particular on the left wireform had a little bump on the edge of it causing the ball to start bouncing with a really fast ball, eventually bouncing off the wireform on the 2nd bend. I filed the little bump down and fingers crossed the ball seems to run a lot more smoothly and hasn't left the wireform in the last dozen games.
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Quoted from V8haha:Anyone have an issue with the ball not rolling down once being locked by the top right post?
When the post drops the ball doesn’t roll down i have to shake the game to get the ball to move
The pitch is correct and the game is level. Also cleaned and waxed that area no luck.
Yes, I frequently have that problem too. I'd be surprised if it doesn't happen to everyone occasionally. At first I thought it was the height of the pop up post being too low, adjusted that, still does it. If you feel the inside ball guide on that bend just to the left of the pop up post, there's a rivet head, I think the ball is just coming to rest against it.
Quoted from V8haha:I just checked again no mylar there on my game.
However i slightly bent the bracket holding the post so that it leaned ever so slightly to the right allowing the ball to be just a mm further over that seems to have fixed the issue. We will see how long it works. May need to shim the mounting screws ever so slightly
Good find, I just bent mine ( after re-reading your post I think I've gone the opposite way to you ), just had about 10 games and the ball didn't get stuck once 
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