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I like my jp very much. But I must admit that I'm not a pro player, so I was thinking of a center post that ease the gameplay for me.

This is a prototype done with my home cnc machine. I'll make some with a laser cutter. Leave me a pm if you are interested.

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#7120 3 years ago

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Kjarkur

Quoted from Mr_Tantrum:
Sort of reminds me of removable training wheels on a bicycle or gutter blockers at the bowling alley. Are you sure you want to do this? While you've integrated nicely, I would encourage you work on your skills a little more. You can adjust the outlane gaps, learn to side nudge a little, and even set balls per game to 5 instead of 3 to help as you learn the game while improving. For me personally this is a step too far, but not going to criticize you if it's what you want to do.
For me, learning a new game and dealing with it's particular challenges is most of the fun. I don't want to be able to walk up to a pin and immediately set a high score. Heck, I've owned my AFMr LE for a year now and still haven't ruled the universe (gotten very close on several occasions). This is one of the challenges that keeps me coming back to that game, and I plan on enjoying learning and reaching new milestones on JP once I finally have possession of it.

Thanks for your in depth answer and advice. I owe this machine about 5 months roughly and going through exactly what you said, turn to 5 balls for some testing and stuff, get back to 3 and so on. Just to explore the machine. I have half a dozen good pins, but currently I'm playing only this one. . (regularly scoring about 300 to 400, high 700 mil)

I made this mod minimal invasive to have the opportunity to assemble or dissamble in few minutes. My kids enjoy dinosaur and of course this machine very much. But nudging is way out of scope for them (4y, 6y). Especially the 6y old is making great progress. So this mod is helping them a lot.

Since I clean the table regularly, I plan to remove it when friends come to play or if I want to play without this helper.

Sometimes the table is played by friends which are not into pinball at all. Perhaps I keep then the mod assembled.

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#7320 3 years ago

ZZZ

Kjarkur

I'm looking for the microswitsch bracket of the start button. Links or tipps are much appreciated.

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#7672 3 years ago

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Kjarkur

Find here some pics of my modded jp pro.

I did the art blades and fluorescent plastic protectors myself.

The protectors was milled with with my home cnc machine. The edges was polished with cnc and finally flame polished. This way the lights comes more intense at the edges compared to the laser cut ones. For the heli, raptor and top transparent plexi I used blue fluorescent acrylic glas.

The art blades fits nicely in the theme.

Hope you enjoyed the pics for a minute

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#8696 3 years ago

ZZZ

Kjarkur

Merry Christmas to all of you.

I had the issue that the shooting with the plunger did not make the proper u turn.

Turns out that the plunger was not aligned correctly to the shooter lane. Additionally I replaced the green spring with a blue spring. Plunger works now 100 %

Second I had some issues with turning the jeep. After checking I saw that the Newton ball wasn't tight to the playfield. Spending a second washer under the playfield does the trick. Any hit carries now the force via newton ball to the jeep ball.

Hope this helps someone.

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#8709 3 years ago

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Kjarkur