Question about the left orbit on The Mandalorian (Pro) Mandalorian.

Our machine had a problem in which the ball used to hit the rubber post, as it was coming down the left orbit, and get redirected SDTM. This, obviously, pissed off the players to no end. Ball time was down to 17 seconds per ball, way too hard.

I like how the left metal rail is adjustable. I was able to deliver a perfect ball feed to the left flipper, by moving the left metal rail away from the edge of the game.

However, I can't get it to stay in place. I'm afraid of stripping the wood, if I tighten the screw any tighter. The action of the ball hitting this wall quickly causes the wall to retreat backwards, though, and it gets out of position again.

Is there any workaround for this? Any way to add more friction to the screw? It's just a wood screw that goes through metal before entering the wood, and it's anchored solely by the wood, it doesn't bolt through (unfortunately). So, if I strip the wood, I'm screwed.

As a workaround, I removed the rubber cylinder from the left orbit (it's the post just behind the 3 standup targets in the left front). This isn't great, because I like the rubber cylinder there, as it protects that area from having a sharp metal edge that could be hit by the ball, but I don't have any other options here.

Has anybody else ran into this problem? If so, how did you solve it?

Thanks!
Josh

Yes, it is. Everything else in the game shoots fine.

I eventually worked around the problem by removing the rubber cylinder from that post in front of the left orbit rail. That reduces the size of the post just enough where it no longer obstructs the flow of the ball. The ball is now delivered perfectly to the center of the left flipper, as it should be.

I'm still looking for a way to lock the left orbit wall in place. The adjustment slider is just held in there by one wood screw. I can't tighten the wood screw any more without risking damage to the wood and stripping the screw hole, which would make it worse. I wish there was a more robust method of anchoring the position of it, so that the wall would not move inward.

Ideally, somebody with a 3D printer could print a piece of plastic that would have a thin screw hole on one end, and a plastic block on the other end, sized just right, so I could screw it down and the block end would press up against the wall, to prevent all further lateral inward movement of that wall.

I found this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pinball/comments/svbz6q/mandalorian_instant_drain_coming_off_left_orbit/

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/mandalorian-left-orbit-dump-help

That's about it. Interestingly, when I Google exactly "mandalorian left orbit drain pinball" (with the quotation marks), I get only one result, this post itself!