Hi everyone, I've got new JP Pro on the way, so I thought I'd introduce myself.

Not exactly new to pinball, but never thought I'd own a pin myself. Guess life finds a way...

I'm pretty excited.

Thanks! Pleasure to be here. I've already learned a bunch just reading through these pages. All so helpful.
I can't wait to play!

Could you recommend an ideal trough kickout power?

Thanks! Super helpful, and will check that other setting too.

Also very curious. My July 2020 NIB arrived today. Never owned a NIB and appears to have fine scratches, circles - like ball trails. Very, very fine scratches, and only visible really at a certain angle or up close, but they're sort of everywhere -- like it's been played.

I imagined it's been asked ad infinitum, but is this normal from Stern factory testing? Just part of their QC, as it were?

Is the best bet just to Novus 2 and Blitz wax it and try to pretend I put those marks down?

Thanks. It's slightly tempered my excitement... eek.

Thanks -- hoping that'll do it! And yeah... deffo gonna play it

So my NIB JP (July, 2020) I now notice all the Stern balls are in some way pitted/rusty, right out the box. In my ignorance I didn't check close enough... put about 10 plays on it. But all the balls? On a new Stern? Is this exceptionally unlucky or are they always this dangerous?

Another newbie NIB question (sorry)...

Are these visible circle patterns normal on a NIB pin? Only visible in bright, overhead light and at certain angles. Is it just part of the clearcoat? I'm probs being way too pedantic -- new to all this, so sorry if it's been asked a ton.

They're very fine, appear to be sorta everywhere, kinda. I've seen them on other playfields of course, just didn't know if this is normal for a factory pin.

Photo makes it look a bit more pronounced than it looks in person.

Thanks!

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Haha, I like the spirit. Seriously though... thinking maybe I asked a dumb question and this is totally normal?
Beers, regardless.

Would also love to know. Can't find the yo-yocopter stuff anywhere.

Hi all!

So I'm getting a ton of ball rejects from the T-Rex ramp. I've searched the board, and I've seen the previous replies. I've tried removing the plastic spacers on the ramp air-ball protector plastic (and even adding washers, too, in case this helped). I've tried reducing the lower flipper power. And I'm between 6.5 and 7 degrees, and have tried different angles.

It's almost like the balls hit the bottom of the T-rex itself sometimes and rattle back down. I'm not sure if this is a common thing?

I was wondering if anyone has tried anything drastic like trying to raise or lower the static t-rex itself, and if this has helped?

Thanks! I'm missing so many shots because of this and it's bumming me out.

Thanks for this! It's my fault, but I should have made clear I'm on a Pro, so there's not much I can do about adjusting the t-rex unfortunately. I will look at levelling side to side -- I think it's pretty flat, but it's a good shout to double-check.

Interesting about the pf protector. I've heard people say to make sure the metal flap which goes on to the ramp is flat, but mine appears to be (eg. there's no curve -- it just goes up straight from where it touches the pf, onto the plastic ramp). The fact your pf protector made it better suggests that it could be something to do with how it gets on to the ramp, though. I'll have a mull. Maybe I need to investigate some thicker mylar, and extending the metal on-ramp out a bit..

May I ask how you attached the base of the chopper to the post? Looks cool! Thanks

Hi all. Please forgive if this is a dumb question, but I've come into possession of some star-post LEDs (circulars disc things, meant to light starposts, which can be wired into the GI -- you know the deal).

However, underneath the playfield on my JP Pro, the starposts aren't exposed, as it were, and there are instead metals caps on them (presumably used to mount them into the playfield). Is it possible to light up the starposts on the JP Pro? Or am I trying to do something impossible given the playfield architecture?

Thanks!

I'm a dummy! Of course! Thanks you

Hero! Thank you!