I had this exact same problem when I owned this pin. I found that the problem is with the switch being out of alignment with the rotating wheel beneath the playfield. There are three plastic pieces attached to the wheel that have a protrusion on them that are supposed to throw the switch as the wheel rotates. There is a test for this in the Portals that you can check to see if this is working properly. If the switch is not thrown within a particular time period, the wheel will just start spinning at a really high rate of speed. In that case, you can adjust the switch to make sure it registers each time the bump hits it.

Hope this helps.

Ok thanks will check this

Decided to use the day off to bring the new game in the house. Even though now I have 7 in the space that comfortably fits 5 lol.

Already did a quick make shift repair on the waterworks flipper, adjust a few switches and got it working and the game seems to be playing decent. I’ll probably tear it down and clean it up after I get the WC94 done.

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Just got mine

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Hello. Need some help here. My bank letters don’t register when the ball hits the bank door. I did a check of the bank opto in the service menu. Nothing registered. I see the top lights are lit but the bottom is not. Do I need a new opto board?

Check connections first, reseat everything. Could be loose

Thanks. Jiggled the wires and sure enough the top wiring was indeed loose. Will have to look closer at it tomorrow. But thanks for giving me the tip that led to a short term fix for me !!!

Sure enough the top wire connection was loose and had some corrosion. Once cleaned and refastened it works again.

Anyone ever see this problem, with Monopoly or any other game....?

When I go to enter initials, once I select the 3rd initial the DMD blacks out. But once the timer gets to zero or I hit the start button again (assuming I didnt hit a flipper and move the cursor off "end") it comes back and shows the match and back to normal.

Now here is the catch....... if I set the game to 10 letters for the high scores..... it does not black out.

Looking to join the club if anyone is selling. I have cash on hand.

Where are you located?

Ball stuck here during multiball, the game wouldn’t stop, I thought it glitched out. I was shaking it, it was doing balls searches, I finally tilted it thinking it was having a fit, it wouldn’t restart a game. So I reset pin and tried to start game and it says pinball missing. Well, shit I still
Couldn’t see it...... finally, ha!

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Whats it stuck on??

Its touching the plastic and the top of the rail, kind of hovering, but it was stuck

The bank cable is not inhibiting it in any way?

Nope, perfectly sitting tight on top of rail and plastic, just a hit of wedged in

Thats odd. I just checked on mine and there is plenty of space between the plastic and the rail. Sounds like maybe your plastic isnt secured or installed right.

Just picked up a very nice HUO 2 owner Monopoly this past Sunday and I am enjoying it so far. Gonna head back to page 1 and get reading this thread from the beginning.

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Thank you very much. Appreciate it. These are very well done. What # paper or card stock do you recommend using?

Looking for a couple of pictures. I just picked up a monopoly for the family. It is pretty hacked up but the price was right.

Can someone take a couple of pictures for me? Specifically from the right side looking left. You can see here I have a Frankenstein that I am looking at fixing . Yes that is a card board.

Thanks, be well.

If someone would not mind , lots of pictures would be awesome , I am sure I have other hacked parts.

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Common issue with that area/plastic. Mine has been "repaired" also, but nothing like yours...... Good luck with it.

I know it's probably not peculiar to Monopoly, but mine is starting random multiball on occasion.

Any advice or suggestions before I get underneath and clean the trough system?

Is it actually starting "multi ball"? Or just firing out another ball while one is already in play?

Mine does the latter when the game gets confused after a ball falls into the lock/jail when its not supposed to and fails to kick it out and I have to manually place it into the shooter lane to continue (did that make any sense?? LOL).

Also.... Why wasnt there a 1 way gate on that lock exit??? I get balls in there all the time from the lower pops. There is one between the upper pops and the roll the dice lane thats not even really needed.

Not actually staring multiball.

Throwing an extra ball in (and auto-launching) but rule set remains as if 1 ball. However, ball doesn’t end when one is lost so it knows two (or more) are out there.

Sounds like you might have a rollover switch problem? If I get a ball through the gate to the left lane it recognises it and either shoots it out or claims a lock ball.

Well, it usually will kick it out, but....if it falls right back in after hitting a pop bumper the game will give up after 3 try’s. Then I have to pull the glass and place in shooter lane.

First, a public service announcement -- check the wires running between your ramps and the hex posts on the slingshots. I had one pair worn through the insulation that blew fuse F7 and transistor Q29.

Next -- anyone ever have trouble with the ball getting stuck after falling down the A-B-C guides? I put on new Titan rubbers, wondering if the rubber size specified is too large.

The rubber map shows 3/16 ID rings at the top of the guides, and 5/16 ID rings at the bottom.

I just finished a playfield swap, Planetary Pinball has NOS playfields for $475

I put a few new rings on lately, now the ball get stuck in my left inlane. Guessing my slingshot rubber too thick.

Edit - amazingly enough my original playfield looks brand new still!!

My original playfield was in pretty good shape. I was surprised when I got a new one, how much colour fade there was on the original (that I never noticed until I had a new one to compare it to).

I may have one ring that is too big, I'll pull it off and double-check. It is hanging kind of loose on the post.

I put Titans on mine and used the recommended sizes also. The ball def slows down when rolling through, but never gets stuck. Even manages to make it up the opposite way from bumper hits as well sometimes.

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Measured the Titan 5/16" ID rubber exterior diameter -- 0.704".
Plain old white rubber 5/16" ID exterior diameter -- 0.680".

For now I have replaced one Titan with said white rubber...

I have one flaky row (horizontal 5 dots on the middle block) on the Electric Company sign. It comes and goes, if I push on the back it seems to "fix" it so probably a bad solder joint. Is it possible to fix this by reflowing solder? Most of the components are surface mount. If so -- what I am looking at as the likely culprit?

I had the same issue with replacing the rubbers around ABC lanes. The ball got stuck. I think smaller rubber is needed.

-Rob

Hi. Just joined the club. Pretty nice Monopoly in general. Last owner installed a money decal on the back board and side art. I did some lighting adds. Pop bumper rings, light strips in the outhole and across the rear. All star posts lit up. Scoop and hole lights.

There are 2 things that stand out like a sore thumb on this game. The 2 black diverter covers. They have to go.

If anyone have a 3D printer, maybe print a large green house as a replacement? I see files on thingaverse. Hotel would probably be too tall to fit under the glass.

Any other ideas? Car or Battleship tokens could also work?

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I'm going to be tearing down a Monopoly and doing a playfield swap sometime in the future. Has anyone done Yellow skirts and covers for the upper pops and orange skirts and covers for the lower pops? If so I would like to see some pics.

thanks chris.

Hey Chris. I scoured the internet when I got my Monopoly and I didn’t see anyone changing their pop caps to another color. I like to experiment with different cap colors on games but I thought the Monopoly ones were nice with clear and red.

If you try some others please post some pics.

I didn't do the skirts and caps, but I did mix it up with the rings and flipper rubbers.

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When I was putting an order in for pop bodies, I ordered 3 orange transparent bodies and 3 clear and 3 yellow maybe. If I do some pop maintenance i'll swap them out for a brighter area

HI all
the Waterworks spining flipper, the rubber underneath the playfield, does that have to be a rubber rubber or can it be a silicone rubber?

Whatever you prefer man!! Oh, I think i mis-read that, i thought you were asking about flippper rubber, my bad

ALSO, a nice tip for you guys that may have an issue with your tiny flipper not pushing ball out of scoop. Give that scoop a waxing, that ball will pop out easily after

I couldnt find a rubber ring that was an exact fit for mine. Too big and the motor spun freely inside the ring. And too small/tight and the flipper wheel would not be able to reach/grab the ring.

I know its not the "correct" way to fix it..... but I took some black electrical tape and wrapped it around the motor gear to build it up some, and then added the rubber. It grabs good now and kicks the ball out every time.

Hopefully I can find the correct size someday and get it install the correct way.

Yep, I did the exact same thing when I owned a Monopoly. It worked great for the entire time I owned it (almost 6 years!).

Monopoly friends... My machine is doing great. But, noticed how STRONG the ball trough kickout is! I mean it seriously slams the pinball into the shooter lane for the plunge.

Is there anyway to lower that strength? (without lowering the strength of all solinoids?) Anybody swap out that solinoid? Thoughts?

-Rob

Hey guys, I have an extra playfield the was pulled from a destroyed machine (building was in a fire and the roof collapsed on the cabinet). I have stripped all the part off it and plan on hanging it on the wall.

If anyone needs any parts from the playfield...most of them are still decent. Let me know what you are looking for, ill let you know if I have it and we can work something out.

I can already tell you that the ramps are worthless. They were snapped in half in the accident.

I've got a doozy of an issue going, curious if anyone has encountered it. My F21 fuse (coils) keeps blowing at the start of multiball. Its normally a 3A slo-blo fuse and I've had up to a 6A(risky I know) in there and it still blows. Testing it via diagnostics it works fine, even if I preload it with 2 balls in the lane, no issue, it's only when multiball starts in gameplay. I replaced the lock kickback coil, the transistor, everything tests fine in all aspects, just can't figure out why only multiball! I did change from some old roms to a newer rom, 3.03, also tried with coils set to soft pulse as well as standard, same issue.wondering if a new rom could even remotely be an issue, like the code is corrupt and fires too long a pulse or something only in that mode? Any help is appreciated!

Well quick update, I disconnected the auto launcher coil and got to MB and no blown fuse! Time to work through potential auto launcher issues now, ugh

Take a look at this service bulletin from Stern regarding the auto launcher. https://sternpinball.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/sb139.pdf

Yup, that's sounds like it, ordered the new coil, thanks!

Apologies if this fix has been added by someone before but thought i should post it up. Ever since i bought my pin the ball would sometimes get stuck in the waterworks hole and usually had to alternately bang the flipper buttons to help the mini flipper push the ball out. I did try the suggestion of waxing the wood around the hole which does help to some degree but doesn't totally fix the problem. I'm presuming over time the edges around the hole just wear down somewhat and the ball sits in a little bit lower (did try lightly sanding around the edges before the last waxing) Anyway long story short, it had got to the point no amount of flipper slapping/cab vibrating would move the ball out so after a chat with my bro he suggested cutting a piece of bike tube to stretch around the wheel that's attached to the flipper...BINGO!!!!!
Even at slow flipper rotation it pushes that little silver sucker right outta there That extra grip of rubber on rubber (well in this case a silicone ring) works perfectly so one happy Monopoly camper again

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