Hey all,

Got another interesting issue going on in my Metallica Premium.

When the game is turned off and I shoot a ball with the plunger (to test it), it shoots fine... smoothly up the shooter lane.

However, when I turn the machine on and shoot the ball, it banks left almost immediately out of the gate and wobbles back and forth up the shooter lane, sometimes flying out of it at the top and not even making it to the pops. The auto plunger does this as well.

Any ideas? Is there a magnet I don't know about somewhere that gets turned on when the game is on and pulls my ball to the left? I have checked the shooter lane and I don't see or feel any bumps or anything.

Could this be related to my other thread on the flipper noise? The ball goes left right at about parallel with the flippers. Maybe there is something going on under my playfield near the flipper area that is causing both of these issues?

Any ideas?

I thought that at first.

But when the game is off, the ball shoots smoothly. It's only when the game is turned on that the ball shoots erratically. I have tested this about 100 times to make sure I wasn't going crazy. lol

No Cliffy in the shooter lane. Just a Cliffy on the Mystery Scoop.

Again, the ball shoots smoothly when the game is turned off. Turn the game on, the ball shoot erratically. I'll try to get a video of it later today.

I tried to get a video but I can't capture anything on my phone that can bee seen that well. Oh well.

I'll try to move the auto plunger and see if that helps that at all.