Any distros have any LEs ready to ship now? I want one...

Well, temporary insanity must have hit, because I've now got an LE on order and paid for.

My LE found its way home today. Getting everything dialed in, everything seems to be working OK out of the box, had to bend one GOLD switch that was stuck.

I have a tilt bob, but it didn't come with a wing nut to attach it.

My spinning disc sounds like a binding sawblade. Short of ordering a third party plastic disc, what are the fixes?

First pinball machine and I love it, but intimidated trying to fix all the things that are popping up.

The ship isn't moving anymore during the game or when I try to run the ship test, however, when I start to pull the playfield out of the cabinet and onto the rails, the ship starts rocking back and forth, and then slows down, and slows further..and further..and further until it stops, almost like it's running out of batteries (I know that's not what's happening, just giving a visual).

Any ideas? Is this under the playfield? Is it on the playfield, under the ship?

Follow up, now the ship is constantly moving left to right, little tight rocking motions, and it won't stop lol.

This worked.. Thanks!

Did y'all adjust any difficulty settings in menus? Ball save timer, etc?

When y'all turn your machine on, while booting up, do any of y'all hear a really loud feedback click or two ff the speakers?

Love this game but another fun issue.

The black pearl magnet/catch is happening far too often - almost every time I get there, whether it's through pop bumpers, left orbit, etc.

A couple more items, curious to hear the owners' feedback:

1) Often times when shooting the inner loop, the ball will drop into the pearl ship area and go up on the ship. Doesn't seem like it should be happening.

2) Auto-plunge is all sorts of jacked up..not sure if it's wireform or what.

And now my pearl has stopped all motion.

Freaking love this game but I'm not the only one that's had a host of issues, I disagree with the posters that keep saying majority of buyers have had zero issues.

They really rushed my LE out. For my first pin purchase (and 10k to boot), having so many game breaking issues on a NIB HUO is disappointing.

Ship still won't move at all. I removed the ship and set it on its side, couldn't find any broken wires.

I checked the metal arm in the back and loosened the two screws. By pulling on the little bar that connects the ship, I can make the ship move back and forth, but it will not move on its own. Motor doesn't seem to move at all.

Really frustrating.

Thanks Lloyd! First pin so I'm a newbie. Is this easy to follow? So many wires. Do I just start from the motor under the playfield? Which wires do I trace?

Thanks for your help Lloyd - still tearing my hair out on this ship not moving. I guess I need to figure out how to test the motor/board. I tried following the wires all the way up to the head unit, don't see anything loose, but there's a lot of cable covered up by the black conduit with sections along the way; I peeked in where it was possible.

I've emailed support as well. Will let everyone know if I come up with a solution.

Edit: It is an amazing pin, but an extremely frustrating experience to have my first NIB have so many issues with <150 plays on it.

Thanks to LTG, Kingpin, zaphx, and the others that posted here on the ship issue. I've almost got it working.

Now the ship will fully move during the ship test, but still barely moves/stops moving during the game. I'm thinking it's still a loose wire somewhere, but will keep playing and see how it does.

Yes it goes all the way down to 5 during the ship test.

drfright, those mods look great!! Are they all modcouple? Does your Jack the Monkey have a pinball in his hand?

Can, someone post a pic of their "spot character" target on the middle left Outlane?

That lane drains 95% of the time, can almost never nudge it over. My spot character target is bent pretty far out and I'm wondering if that's the cause.

Are there any rulesheets/rule cards, or is it just pricing cards?

Turned on the ol' NIB LE today and Switches 9,10, and 12 are stuck open and don't respond/activate when you press the targets manually. These are the BONUS, X, and LOAD targets on the Pearl.

Also, there is no foam behind the BONUS and X targets on the Pearl.

Any ideas?

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Thanks zaph, found the broken wire, can't quite tell where to solder it back on. Did you remove the ship completely from the playfield, or just lean it on its side?

I find it doesn't lean very well on its right side/there's not enough room. The broken wire is on the left side.

Seriously. Thanks zaph by the way..the solder worked!

On a side note, we've had a few posts of "No QC issues at all, vast majority of POTCs have had zero issues, the people posting are just a very small minority". Those posts really irritate me.

Back to silver ball!

I had this happen with my screen too. Here's how I fixed it: loosen the screw on the wooden block on right side above the tab and slide wooden block up. Raise the tab, push the right side of monitor in towards the center and up simultaneously. It should catch the latch and hold better.

At the JJP seminar at TPF. They just announced they have the Pirates license for 3 more years. Can we call out and hold those to account those posters that keep saying the license is done?