Judge Dredd
Bally, 1993I had a few other issues in a separate thread but figured this could it's own thread since I haven't been able to find out how to do this after a while of searching...
The ball rolls off of the ring instead of getting locked in. I found this on
Iobium.com: "If it rolls past the hole or under the metal guide, then the dead world may need to be raised."
But I'm not sure how to raise the deadworld...? Can't find how to do it in the manual, on pinside, or google.
Anyone know?
Fixed this issue with bigger washers, but then the crane was slightly too low... so I started to adjust the planet and the crane and the planet gearbox broke (hopefully you can see in the video, most of the bottom part of the gearbox turns but the top doesn't...) It was sticking a while but something finally slipped/broke apparently. https://vimeo.com/56833719
I know this is a fairly common issue and that it will cost about $200 to send it in and have it repaired (Or I can do it myself like so: http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/judge-dredd-planet-gearbox-revealed-2) but I don't even know how to take the damn thing out/apart, let alone a fix like that. Argh. Going to take a deep breath, have a beer, and let it sit in the corner a while.
That sucks. I guess they only positive thing I can say is this pin is under valued and spending the $200 while a kick in the teeth will eventually be made up in the rising price of the game. Good luck with the gear.
Oh no! The deadworld is certainly a tricky piece of kit. Any one aspect out of whack won't make it work properly. The crane arms must be dead straight, deadworld ring positioned correctly, deadworld ring height tweaked (in your case), opto interrupter set correctly, crane at the right height and clamped onto it's arm at the right angle.
I've had to adjust everything but the ring height a number of times. It doesn't help that a previous owner soldered the crane clamp at an incorrect angle. The allen screw tightens onto a flat edge of the crane arm so the fact that this is at the wrong angle means the screw tightens kinda sideways onto this edge and eventually works it way out of alignment every so often.
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