Did the Rotodave Method and WoW what a difference. After one wolverine breaking, I don't need another. I used a Stern switch but removed the first rectangular tan part that holds the screws to the bracket. This gave the switch blades in the back enough of a gap without being pinched. I had to file down the target as well as the area the screws go through (from where the tan rectangular part of the switch rested on) with a dremel.

Now I have to find a nice figure to mount.

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Thanks. It plays awesome.

When can I buy one..dudes?

I bought the kit from Mezelmods and used a standard Stern/Sega/DE switch I had in my parts box. You have to adjust the with head and I removed a portion of the base where the switch screws into the bracket. Not hard to do at all.

I think this should work!

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You want that bent part behind the first (longer) part of the switch. You then want the second part of the switch to have a flat metal support behind it. See my attached image. I took the first couple pieces apart so you could see how I did it. The piece with the tab to solder to is not needed if the long switch piece has a tab.

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The extra wafers are just for the plastic piece that goes through the wafers. You don't need all of them.

Yep, the I will take another pic with the switch assembled without the tall piece.

I think you misunderstood. You want the tall piece, but with the bent metal piece behind it.

like this:

wafer
short straight backer piece
short straight leaf blade
wafer
short bent backer piece
tall straight leaf blade
wafer

I mounted a wolverine I bought on eBay. It fits the MezelMod base perfectly so you can get to the screws. Nice part is it doesn't come near the ice ramp when it moves to the other side. Only downsides it is smaller than original and it's hard to see his face from players view. Overall I think it looks good though.
I love the Newton ball.

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This isn't mine, but it is one of the better ones I have seen. This is a large figure cut at the waist.
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That's cool just wonder if the claw contacts the ramp.

You can position the arms as it is an action figure. Then you can glue them into place once you make sure the ramp is OK.

Would love to find that figure

Try Amazon and search for "Wolverine". I saw it there a while ago for about $14 I think.

Anybody know if they will have this mod back in stock? Or are they going to make it??? Thanks

TMezel is working on finding a good switch for the full set. He might sell you the bracket alone and you can buy the other parts individually. I can email you parts list I used if you want. PM me.

The mod looks great, but it definitely looks like you're "smacking Wolverine in the ball(s)", considering the placement of the newton ball relative to his upper body.

That depends on which figure you put above it. You can even run a flasher up and into your figure if you are good at modding a mod. This would need a long post that you could screw into the lower posts and then mount a flasher and tap into the one that is normally in the Wolverine insert.

I like that figure. It might be a bit on the small side, but I like the pose better than "stiff arm" Wolvie.

To find this one I would suggest searching "Wolverine Bust Paperweight" or "Wolverine Paperweight" on Ebay or Amazon. A few for around the $24 mark. It seemed Amazon had a slightly better price...especially if you have Prime.

For the other, bigger Wolvie figure you should search "Wolverine Titan Figure". These range from $9 to $414 (SMH...what are some sellers thinking with their buy it now prices), but you should be able to find one in the $25 area.

I bought one of the paperweight models for when the captive ball solution is ready.

The one I mounted was the wolverine paperweight. It looks good. I think the one Judremy recommended maybe better. I ordered one of the Wolverine Titan Figures for $14 on Amazon.

Yeah...the Wolvie on your first post looks like he might look good if you can get him hacked off. His arms look like they could be posed well and you might be able to touch up his arm joints after you got him posed like you want to cover up / blend in the articulation points a bit.

@ TomGWI: Did the Wolvie come right off of the base on your paperweight bust or did you have to cut it off? I got mine in, but didn't tear into the package yet. I was just wonder what kinda work I had ahead of me.

Mine did come off the base easily. Not sure if it was suppose too.

I got the mod prior to its pulled - I used the original switch just had to bend the crap out of it, that was actually my main reason for getting rid of the oversized toy, the freaking consistency was just terrible. So far just in tests its working great, Not sure why MEZ would not just make the bracket a little less in size and the extra clearance should let any switch work.

Yup that as well - I did not read all of the posts, I found this thread one day and said my favorite game can be fixed thank you MEZ then found out not so fast but the solution did look easy as pie and as of right now the game is improved but could be printed just a little better.

Dave, send me that part number! I'm really trying to put this one to bed.

Tmezel, I haven't forgot. I just have a baby and a demanding job. I will try to post the dimensions of the switch I have today.

If you drill out the rivet on the one posted by rotodave, those should work too. That is basically what I did for mine.

I didn't know if he wanted to change the design. But yeah, if he can edit the shape and add the indent that you notched out, that would probably work best. Can you measure how far in you notched it so he can make the adjustment?

I don't want a design change. I need a plug and play switch.

Well, the switch I used (which is the one rotodave posted with the target rivet drilled out, works good.
The switch I had linked to at Marcos (http://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/180-5133-00) with no target cover should work if the front blade is 2.5" in length from top to bottom (not counting the part you solder to).

If you go with the one rotodave posted, Two things need to be done:

One, you must remove the diode. Already one later in the line.

Two, you need to swap the back and front wafer or use washers to space it back enough so the target isn't pressures back. I did it tonight with another switch (like root dave linked to), and it takes all of 5 minutes.

If someone can contact Marcos and ask what the height (from bottom of wafer to top of longest blade is and the configuration of the blades and wafers, we might be able to use the switch I linked to in my last post.

The kit is available again from TMezel at the link below:

http://mezelmods.com/collections/x-men/products/x-men-wolverine-newton-bracket

Make sure to get the whole kit if you don't want to track down the pieces and target switch yourself.

Ordered it last night.Thanks for all of your hard work. XMENLE is currently my favotite game. I'm excited to see how it plays with the original design in place!

For any that doubted that an early white wood had the captive ball, see the pic below:
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Link to the source video:

And then they realized it wouldn't work with that ginormous Wolverine model so they changed it.

Probably not correct. If you see, there is no magnet in front of Wolverine. So they probably designed the bash toy to take up less space front to back, but didn't correctly plan the left to right too well. Regardless, the figure is a fail and plays worse than what the original design had.

You are right. I didn't notice it was missing the magnet. They probably figured the magnet was more fun.

IMHO the game is one of pinballs greatest games.

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Favorite in my lineup and I've got a few decent pins...

I have an LE and got one of Tim's newton bracket sets about 5 1/2 months ago.

Getting ready to put it on, but thinking I remember reading that a new or better bracket was produced after I bought mine.

Should I mod my game with the bracket I have or try to get a newer one (if they exist)?

Robert

I was one of the "designers" and I don't think changes were made to the bracket. There were changes made to the switch that was used. I believe he was sending new ones to anyone who had the old switches. You may want to PM him and ask.