Quoted from Captchaos:

The rubber tip of the shooter rod is about an inch behind the auto plunge mech.
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Quoted from DJY2J:

YES! This is exactly how I'd describe what I am going through with the plunger. I even took both washers out to add length, adjusted spring, tried realigning and still wont go to the top of the playfield. Autoplunge works fine and I am NOT having any ball recognition issues.
I will submit a ticket as he suggested.

Quoted from ScreaminSauce:

Let us know what you find - I had the same issue with the stock spring, but was fixed with an overly stronger spring.

Quoted from DJY2J:

Even with removing the spring completely the plunger wasn't making good contact with the ball like other machines. I think it's the position of the autoplunger or the angle which the playfield hooks are at when they attach to the front wall of the cabinet.

Quoted from DJY2J:

Even with removing the spring completely the plunger wasn't making good contact with the ball like other machines. I think it's the position of the autoplunger or the angle which the playfield hooks are at when they attach to the front wall of the cabinet.

Quoted from RikV:

Art blades looking good! Patiently waiting for game, hopefully with art blades pre-installed. No doubt I’m at the end of the run, but AP has got to be getting close to closing out the run of 500, right? Anyone have some insight on the progress to 500?

Quoted from Aniraf:

I am so lucky that it didn’t cause damage. I am not joking, there is zero margin of error when lifting the playfield. Do you remember what length screws or what you used to shim the rails?

Quoted from luvthatapex2:

ok, so for about a month I have been trying to get to Ragnarok with extra balls = 1. I can do it with 2 extra balls, but never with 0 or 1 extra ball - until today.
I was curious what others were using as their strategy but this one worked today.
Certain battles played in certain orders help you on this journey along with using everything you have in your arsenal (hammer, valkyries, extra ball and strategically using the sea multiball stacks and mini wizard mode Viking Raid). Again my personal challenge was getting to Ragnarok by using a max of 1 extra ball. I'm not the best player nor the worse so I figured if I can do, you can too. Of course if you complete all battles you will really get a jacked up score (even higher with the next code release) but I was more concerned with just getting there than maxing my score.
16 battles is a ton of battles to get through and you can't time them out so you just gotta play. Player starts with 1 weapon so it helps to get more weapons immediately or start playing battles. I have found you need to concentrate on the battles and nothing else or you'll never get to Ragnarok. Kind of like Walking dead and Last man Standing. Forget about Valhalla for the moment, we'll do this later.
I chose to go for battles right away. I took them in this order in case you are curious - this is the first 6 I played:
Draugar, Fossegrimen, Banshee, Leanan Sidhe, Jormungandr, Dearg Due.
Then I took them in sequential order from that point on.
Draugar I chose first because he is a multiball, so while I was battling him, I was more concerned
with spinning up the hammer and getting weapons. I got 2 more weapons and hammer to 85%.
I locked 2 balls in the ship to get war at sea ready for this one or the next battle.
I failed Draugar down to single ball play.
Next I chose Fossegrimen and let sea multiball assist by locking the 3rd ball in the ship.
I beat Fossegrimen and got a bonus battle when down to 1 ball in play.
Banshee kicked in and I killed her with the hammer.
Next I got Leanan Sidhe as bonus battle and killed her (since she was only 4 shots).
I got Jormungandr as bonus battle and failed him, but got some more weapons and a 90% hammer.
I locked a few more balls in the ship too for the next sea multiball and grabbed a Valkyrie with some ramp combos.
I hit the scoop for the next battle, got extra ball (4 battles played) and started Dearg Due. I took a few shots and killed her with the Valkyrie.
I got a bonus battle and started Dullahan and killed him with the hammer at 100%.
I wasted a Viking multiball but still managed to spin up the hammer to 50% and get more weapons.
Still on ball #1 I hit the scoop for the next battle and played Kraken. This is a harder mode with just 5 shots.
I used a Valkyrie for the left loop shot and the hammer to finish him off.
This started Grendel as a bonus battle. Grendel is a 4 ball multiball so I immediately hit the locks to
lock balls in the ship. I knew Hel was the next battle to play so I wanted to focus on getting another
Valkyrie in the arsenals to use on her. I spent most of the mode on the shots (spinner, locks, standups) but failed.
Next I hit the scoop and started Hel. First shot is a killer (right shooter lane shot) so I used a Valkyrie.
I proceeded through the ramp shots and had the same shooter lane shot to finish her off.
I decided to hit a few more ramps and in time got another Valkyrie and used it for the last shot.
Fenrir started as a bonus battle. I hit enough standups to light most of the shots and completed him.
Gwyllgi started as a bonus battle and I always lose on this one so I just focused on the hammer.
I spun it up to 100 and killed Gwyllgi, starting Thor as a bonus battle.
I was able to kill Thor by hitting the 6 white shots and started Tyr as a bonus battle. I failed Tyr
but immediately started Loki with a shooter lane shot. I made it to the last shot on Loki and failed.
One more battle to go. My heart was beating double fast as I shot for the scoop and missed.
I started my extra ball and hit the scoop for Balder. I completed Balder and had Viking Raid or Ragnarok to start
both lit. I decided to go for Viking Raid and played a couple rounds of that 6 ball mini wizard mode.
I drained down to one ball and hit the scoop for RAGNAROK. I completed 5 battles along the way and the next code release will have a 5 million pt bonus for each completed battle before you start Ragnarok (16,750,000 for each completed battle with battle timers disabled). Awarding my 25 million Ragnarok began.
This lasted about 10 minutes as I hit shot after shot and used the berzerker target for the tough god of thunder rollover helpers.
I drained with a Ragnarok score of over 260 million to add to my score.
Finally started ball #2 and to my chagrin it was a house ball and drained right away.
Last ball and I went for Valhalla. I had 7 tasks done, just needed to get War on Land.
I started escape the kraken and got 22million points. I hit 2 of the war on land targets and whiffed on the last target with a SDTM.
so close to getting Valhalla too! UGH! Maybe next time.
Final score = 486,587,690
Game time = 38 minutes.

Quoted from GoldenBeard:

I know that no one can make this decision for me. But I have an opportunity to get a solid price on the deluxe model and feel like I’m overthinking things. I really want a Wonka, R&M and WoZ but know that I’m going to be super careful with them or end up not playing them and just having a ‘show cabinet’ whereas I can get a super cool original theme pinball with LOV. I don’t know what reassurance I need to put me over the edge but I guess that’s what I’m looking for. I just want a hassle free pin experience and I can just go ham playing the crap out of this thing

Quoted from GoldenBeard:

That’s my other thought process on Wonka, I think I just want to get a standard. If I would do the LE, I might as well do the CE. Im definitely particular with my pins and everything I own, but I’d be worried I would be scared to play it as much the more expensive it is. And also harder to trade or swap out if I ever want to.
Instead of a Wonka CE, I could get a LOV and Wonka Standard.

Quoted from luvthatapex2:

The game works best at pitch = 7. You have it right. I'm running the game at pitch = 7 and have no issue hitting the right ramp. Can I do it everytime? Nope, but it wasn't designed to be an easy shot. There are 3 tough shots in the game - right ramp, left loop and right shooter lane. Its a challenging game and makes me want to keep hitting start (even after 4 years
Look at your flipper and see whats the issue. You don't want to hammer the ramp, it can take it, but it will just rattle. You want the ball to slide up the ramp. Try turning down the pulse to 27 or 25 even and take a shot. Also, I'm using the stock AP flipper bands.
I almost always get it in the right ramp by doing a combo - spinner to mid left flipper to right ramp. This is satisfying and works great.

Quoted from luvthatapex2:

The other AP games are recommended 6.5. Standard AP manual template was used for the LOV setup pages and we didn't catch it in October.
I recommended 7.0 day 1 as it adds pitch to the balls in the ship and speed to the game. If you like 6.5 keep it there. My game was always set at 7.0

Quoted from sulli10:

So spent this morning "tuning" my game with excellent results.
First thing I did was pull the glass and used my phones digital level to adjust the right front leg a bit to improve the side to side unevenness.
My game had problems making the outside loops and the most right hand shot into the shooting lane .
The loops rattled and rejected. The right most shot , when made with speed, would hit the wood side rail of the shooter lane and bounce back into the playfield.
The side to side adjustment with the digital level helped the loops a bit. I then watched where the loop shots rattled. On the left side, the post to the upper left of the ramp target was a problem. Removed it totally (had removed the rubber on it earlier). this open up the entry into the left orbit. Adjusted the steel metal guide rails, on the ends, in the left loop a bit with needle nose. There were two adjusted.
On the right loop , also watched where the rattles were and adjusted two metal guide rail ends where the rattles occurred . basically opened up the line of travel a few thousandths.
On the most right hand shot. I was going to adjust the metal ball guide , but for now, just put a piece of rubber on the wooden shooter lane rail where the ball struck to cushion the blow so that the ball does not bounce back onto the playfield. The ball now just drops into the shooter lane as designed.
Overall results were pretty dramatic. Both loops are made significantly more often and the right side shot does what it is supposed to do.
Had my best score yet and already seen parts of the game I have not seen before.
Overall this game needs a little more love out of the box. Part of the problem with the loop rejects is the thickness of the metal side rails. Since the game has hi quality /thicker side rails the clunkiness occurs. A few tweeks with the needle nose make a big difference.

Quoted from luvthatapex2:

The other AP games are recommended 6.5. Standard AP manual template was used for the LOV setup pages and we didn't catch it in October.
I recommended 7.0 day 1 as it adds pitch to the balls in the ship and speed to the game. If you like 6.5 keep it there. My game was always set at 7.0

Quoted from lookyloo:

that makes two of us. only had mine a week, but i don’t think this is just honeymoon love. i think it’s the real deal. i haven’t used the l-word with her yet out of fear of rejection. maybe after i break 60 mil to prove i’m serious.

Quoted from luvthatapex2:

New code is coming very soon - testing/validation has begun.

Quoted from brooklynknight:

Thinking of picking this bad boy up as the price appears to be solid for a Deluxe with what it appears you get in the videos and reviews I am watching. Can some of you let me know what you LOVE (what has you coming back for more) and is there anything that is universally not liked. I see that the company is active in the forums and it looks as though more code is to come. I have never owned an American Pinball and wanted to know if anyone could also describe its build quality and is it comparable to a spooky, JJP, stern or any other older manufacture. Thanks in Advance! (Currently between this or a houdini)

Quoted from arcyallen:

Yeah, I should have been more clear: It's Spooky's engineering and build quality that I'm more concerned with. I like playing their pins, and had a Halloween for awhile. But that machine has a laundry list of issues that are common and seemingly unnecessary. Lowering a playfield shouldn't require removing the coin box and then holding a latch up while you do it!

Quoted from arcyallen:

When you lowered the playfield, you didn't need to move the coinbox and latch out of the way? And you didn't have horrible video compression? I've never seen one not have those issues, and if yours didn't that's great.
As for GnR, it's tempting at the lower prices to pick one up but it seems there's an awful lot of people that thought the same and are reselling them. I'll still probably own one at some point.
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Quoted from sulli10:

Need tech help. Sent in a service request
Game boots
lights work
switches work
ball does not load
flippers do not work
can not find manual. do not see fuses anywhere.

Quoted from Dwboca:

Something new has been happening on my game. The ball eject takes a few attempts if it happens during a multiball mode it ends the ball. Thoughts?

Quoted from arcyallen:

When I read the first comment I thought it sounded silly, but now that you I read your version I agree. Last night I had two friends over who'd never played it before, and they were almost startled when it started at the end. I think sometimes we get used to it, but it does seem pretty loud compared to the rest of the game.

Quoted from glpinball:

Check that the cable to the coil is still plugged in. Mine got pulled out at one point.

Quoted from c818919taylor:

Had to back out the update. None of the coils worked. Works fine on the last code.
Anyone with the same issue?