Do you mean the ball is getting stuck behind the top newton ball and not going down into the under playfield plastic trough? I noticed mine was doing this and lifted the playfield for a look underneath. The screw holding the trough that is closest to the drop point from the lock had come out which was causing the trough to droop away from the playfield and creating a bigger gap in between, which in turn was making the ball jam there.

I have more trouble with the manual plunge, the auto plunge works 9 times out of 10 from factory.

My rubber tip is straight but i think the assembly needs a shufty to the left, waiting on some Cliffys yet so i can do all at once.
Merry Maiden Christmas ALL!!
A quick story.... My bro and i have been playing all the pins and also some pool in between most of the afternoon...first press of the button on the Maiden and the machine comes out with DIRTY POOOLLLL. Well played machine, well played

Certainly sounds like a power issue, considering the PF led's all go out too. I'm familiar with a B/W reset issue from the watchdog circuit and how the machine reacts to that, not had this issue with my Maiden as yet. My Monopoly was doing a reset thing cause of a dodgy plug connection and that resets fully, dmd, etc, etc.

You would need to loosen the complete mech assembly from underneath the play field i would be thinking. There will absolutely zero adjustment available for the 3 screws that hold the flap onto the mech itself. I've not had to adjust my mech but i did have to temporarily remove it to attach the Cliffy for the hole but this was some time ago and i can't recall offhand how much adjustment could be made from that side. Someone should know though.

Got a link for these Vic?

Nope, the left pop is a flasher only!

Flasher might be slightly incorrect as i've not had the plastic off to check the LED underneath, could be just a controlled LED to be more precise but it sure doesn't stay on all the time like the other 2

People always look at me weird when i mention the term "percussive maintenance" but it works a treat with some things.

Ohh nooooo he hasn't??? pleaseee noooooo

If you can come up with a mod or alteration that is reliable in the long term then i reckon there will be heaps of people that will thank you, or pay you

I only removed the lift ramp top and that was it!! For sure it wasn't 'easy' to remove the mylar, clean the residual glue off and put the protector in it's place, just took some extra patience....hmmm and a few swear words...OK a LOT of swearing

Ditto about the fat fingers but i used a slightly different method. Several test fits to suss out where it should go in my head, used a hobby paint brush handle with a nice blob of blue tack attached to it, pressed onto the protector and peeled the whole backing off and then located and pressed in.

Those wires ARE for the tournament button!! (Wire colours are a dual red, a dual black/white stripe, a yellow/red stripe and grey/white stripe) The colour wires shown in the picture that are connected to the interlock button are different (one is red/white stripe, one looks to be solely white, a black/yellow stripe and one that looks to be solely black) There's no interlock switch on my premium and NO spare wires anywhere in the vicinity to add it later.

From what i've heard in the main Maiden thread it was normal yeah but apparently any updates from now on will retain settings and scores. I did a full update this time too, kinda thought that was the way you're supposed to do it? From memory the last update cleared my scores also.

YES i did read that!! Scores don't bother me as i play for fun first

Read back, i don't think i expressed any concerns about losing my scores in my comments?? I was merely stating the facts.
I'd forgotten about reading the Readme file but hey when i posted that i'd been drinking for 3 hours at least Gotta remember that we're ahead of you guys by 12-14 hours and it was already NYE drinkies going down nicely

https://www.pinballlife.com/e-clips.html

No sorry, mine hasn't come off (yet) so haven't had to take a look at it. For reference the biggest size in that link (3/8") is for shooter rods (won't be that big) Just going off the pics of the shaft i reckon it will either be 3/16" or 7/32" (my bet is on 3/16"), very much doubt it's the tiny 1/8" size but best to get some of each anyway