I would love to know if you ever figured out the answer. I just bought my machine 5 days ago and am wondering the same. I'm having two issues with my machine.

1) The center popup seems to fire the ball strait down the center drain 9 out of 10 times.
2) Frankie faceplants. He doesn't seem to stay hooked in and falls forward face planting after a Frankie multiball.

Are you having either of these issues?

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I truly appreciate your assistance. This is the first Pinball Machine that I've owned and I'm very excited about it.

The back of the Frankenstein monster has this tab that goes into a notch. It seems that the notch SHOULD be longer to keep the tab in it's proper place. I read another thread that advocated bending it a bit with needle nose pliers to get it to stay in place. I did so and then Played it about 4 times and it seems to have done the trick. I'll include photos below.

I double checked and the Pitch seems to be right on. Additionally the playing field is level. See the pictures. If there is anything you can suggest to get the popup to stop sending the ball strait down the middle drain I'd be appreciative.

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Can you tell me more about this "foam fix" for the SDTM issue? Do you have a link to share?

Hey Metal Mods, can you tell me where I need to add the spring washer on the solenoid to fix the SDTM from scoop problem? I'm a newbie and would be so grateful for a little help with this.

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Frankenstein Face Plant

20-25% of the time after the Frankenstein Multiball Frankie FACE PLANTS.

I've tried bending the tab as suggested in other posts but can't seem to get this sorted. The thing just does not stay in it's slot. (see picture)

Any help with this frustrating issue would be appreciated. Here is a 6 second video of what happens.

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HUGE APPRECIATION for Metal-Mods and JTG for their help.

I bent the back of Frankie's blade thing more and it seems to be fixed. WoooHoo!

To Resolve the Scoop shooting the ball strait down the drain, I maxed the power which reduced the problem to 1 out of 4. Added a spring washer which did not help, then added a "magic slider" (pictured below) inside the scoop which reduced the Straight down the drain to 1 in 10 or less. We can live with that.

I added a "magic slider" to Drac's foot which fixed the problem with him sending strait down the drain.

I turn the auto save on to 2 seconds

Our game is soooo much more fun now. THANK YOU!!!!

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You are correct, I moved the bumper forward towards the toes after realizing this.

How can I turn up the General Illumination on my MB CE?

This past week I paid $400 for the ROM that turns my display into a COLOR display and installed it. It seemed overly expensive, but now I'm thinking "Wow what a difference". The animations are so much better in color. I'm not 100% certain but I think I'm also hearing some new call outs that I hadn't heard before.

The problem I need a little help with is that this new ROM seems to have made my MB much darker. Often the back part of the playfield is darn near pitch black until I hit one of the things that turns the lights up for a few seconds. Is there a setting I can adjust to make things a bit brighter? Forgive me if this is a stupid question. It's my first pinball game thus I'm a newbie.

Have other people installed the Spotlight Kits from Comet Pinball? Do I need to get the 6.3v or the 12v version? Seems like a couple of those two headed spots for $20 each might be a better way to go than dropping $350 on a Pinstadium Neo or $499 for a Pinstadium Neo Fusion.