(Topic ID: 25644)
Wentzville, MO
Quoted from bigehrl:happens on my FT once in a rare while...
how do you like the star posts on the stern? pretty sure that was not factory, right?
-jon - reciprocal nyc
I think the star posts were OG on FGY actually but I could be wrong. Its a very small detail but I do think they look better or should I just say more old school.
There are red star posts on my LOTR with the LED flashers installed beneath that light up when the slings are hit & I think it looks super dank, might do that to all my pins. Recently I bought red, orange, yellow & blue to try out on my machines (FGY, LOTR & TSPP)
Quoted from LTG:Common problem.
One size smaller rubber ring is the answer.
LTG
Thanks dude, I will give that a try. I have factory sizes installed but that was for black rings of course.
Quoted from TheLaw:haha nice. I've seen that one before...but not very often.
Really? Man I've owned machines for about 7 years now & been attending CP pinball religiously for almost a half decade & this has never happend to me. I thought it was like a pinball total eclipse or something... damn 
Quoted from LTG:One size smaller rubber ring is the answer.
Considering how fast FGY plays, the original black rubbers are a better answer.
The factory rubbers are 2". A 1 3/4" rubber will be stretched too far and not play properly. I know it will fall on deaf ears, but I would recommend changing the game back to all black rubbers. If you want some color, change the flippers and slings to blue rubbers (2" on the slings). That's what I did on mine.
My location Shrek has had numerous balls stuck under the slings. It's always had factory black rubbers. FGY and Shrek slings and flippers are very fast. Not only will it not play right when you switch to white rubbers, but you'll also get more balls buried under the slings. You're lucky it didn't damage a switch this time.
Quoted from Tekman:This has happened three times in my Tron.
Ditto for my tron. The disc lodges it in there.
Kamloops, BC
I just for the first time did this Friday night on my Shadow. It took me a minute to figure out what happened it went so fast and poof..gone. We were laughing and saying what are the chances..
I went to white rubbers on my Tron and had the same problem pretty consistently. The factory black rubber is 2" so I figured I would go down in size but I couldn't find 1 3/4" white rubber anywhere. I wound up going back to the factory rubber as the 1 1/2" white was way too tight. If anyone knows of a source for 1.75" white rings I'd love to know about it!
used to happen on old games all the time. That's why you see little nails and metal rails behind the rubber on slingshots. They stopped doing it to cut costs, but it was a common problem back in the day.
Balls lodged under slings always warrant caution. The sling switches are on the switch matrix and of course, the kicker arm is driven by a 50V coil. The kicker arm SHOULD be electrically isolated from the 50V that drives it but I've seen at least one incident where it was not. If the ball makes a connection between the switch and the kicker arm...poof!, there goes the switch matrix.
Turning power off to dislodge balls trapped like this is definitely warranted.
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i had it happen on the Rolling Stones, and I know what you mean the ball was there one second and gone the next.Ii thought I was losing my mind!
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