I am new here so forgive me if this is posted in the wrong place. I have very limited experience with pinball machines and recently acquired a Johnny Mnemonic & Bride Of Pinbot. I successfully repaired dozens of issues with my BOP (Face Motor Replacement, Solenoid/Switch Repairs, Replace all ramps…)and started working on JM. The problem I’m having a hard time with is when the glove has the ball and is suppose to go to the grid the ball drops as soon as I hit the flipper button, it falls in to the hole it got ejected from and then will continue to drop and fall back to the hole (without me hitting the flipper). It never has any problems when the glove brings the ball back to the playfield though rather than to the grid. It seems like if a pause a few seconds once the ball is in the glove to hit this flipper it’s less likely to drop the ball and get in this never ending drop ball the eject back to glove loop, but pausing doesn’t always prevent it. Does anyone have any thoughts. Thank you

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So found a broken wire going to the hand switch the repaired it and thought that I had found the problem… It didn’t help at all. After a few hours of taking things apart and reinforced connections I found a 8 pin harness under the playfield that led to the hand mechanism that was partially unseated. After reseating the connector this have been operating normally. It’s been about 40 games so I feel like it’s a win. The reason I looked at it in the first place was the red flasher to the right of the hand went out and the plug pulled apart right next to the 8 pin harness (3x3 square cavity plug). I think it gets tugged when the playfield is lifted. I’ll post if it comes back but I feel good about this one..