Hey, I was wondering if the original "apron plastic" comes in the goodie bag. Like as an option in case you want to remove the insider connected and mount it in the door instead?

This thing...

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2. 6.5 ~ 7.0 degrees slope is generally recommended. I have my AIQ at 6.8°. I have a DIY CM ramp fix as well. My flipper coil stops were shot on my AIQ at around 200 games. Replace if even a question of if they are going out. The brass dust is usually a sign, but not always. The center "nub" should be solid and not moving or falling off. Cleaning and waxing will also help speed the game up and make those ramps.

3. Yes, if you play for more than 30-45 minutes at a time. Flipper fade is noticeable on AIQ. I have DIY flipper coil fans on all of my Sterns now so I don't worry about it, but I often play for several hours at a time.

Yes, Cliffy does have some AIQ protectors about half way down the page. I think I only use the shooter lane protector and turn the eject power down.

http://www.passionforpinball.com/wip.htm

Take care of your plastics. The one above sanctum target and around the marvel spinner in special.

double check that the Strange spinner rod isn't rubbing up against the mag sensor and that the rod is secured tight. My NIB was hitting the sensor, broke it and I needed to get a replacement.
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/official-avengers-infinity-quest-owners-thread-pinsiders-assemble/page/84#post-6052220

Anyway to remove this sticker? It seems on there pretty good.

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Doesn’t appear to be in goodie bag.

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Yea the QR spam is strong with stern.

2: For trouble with the ramp shots, yes, clean and wax the playfield. It makes a lot of difference particularly on the Captain Marvel ramp. My make rate went from like 50% to like 80% after just a quick wipe-down with Novus 1. This ramp is incredibly sensitive to having a clean and slick playfield. (My hypothesis is that the ball needs to be sliding, not rolling, when it reaches the ramp entrance; rolling makes for just enough friction to sap just enough power for the ball to not make it.)

I put a lexan barrier on the side of my Marvel ramp, but it doesn't really seem to make much of any difference. A shot that's off-axis enough to hit the barrier isn't going to make it anyway.

For Widow and Gauntlet, I found the most important thing was make sure the slope is at 6.5 and not higher. But just by their nature, these ramps will have a lot of rejects - the ball comes in at quite a range of angles and speeds, and the ramps are hard metal that the ball will clunk off hard, not plastic that has a bit of give. I have occasional problems with the ball jumping too high on the Widow ramp so it hits its roof instead of making the shot; I haven't figured out how to solve this.

Mine saw the shavings indicating a bad coil stop after about 250 games. I took it out and yes the brass center piece was slightly loose. I replaced it with Pinball Life parts. Only the left side was bad for me, but if it was then the right side would probably also go soon so I did that too.

3: I installed flipper coil fans and they do seem to help. The Marvel ramp in particular got a lot worse after 20-40 minutes without the fans.

They peel off easily. I always remove them.

Thanks for that! Don't know how I missed it. Will be picking up the AIQ protectors, and while I'm at it, picking up a Deadpool set as well. I've just been raw doggin it for a couple years and just got lucky, I guess.

Peels off easy and stick to wax paper in case next person wants to put it back on.

Mine was stuck on there pretty damn good. Once you manage to get a fingernail under a corner it should come off fairly easily.

Is there a mode or gem where your flippers go dead? This has happened to me 3 times. One time they went dead and then came back on.

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Only during soul gem when you run out of flips that I can think of.

Warming up to this game

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On second thought, your flippers don’t go dead, the mode just ends.

Thank you. The flippers have gone dead about 5-6 times. I’m pretty sure there’s an issue.

Having an issue where a couple of the LEDs stay green when they should be off. They show the correct colors when they are supposed to be lit. It’s the green gem in the gauntlet and the gem insert for the right outer loop (i.e., Black Panther). I tried going through LED diagnostics. These lights stay lit green when I’m testing other LEDs, and I can drive either to red or blue when testing them. Any thoughts?

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Try reseating the trough opto connectors. Only thing I can think of that would kill the flippers.

A node board could be resetting. Do a bunch of a insert lights also go out at the same time?

There are two, but both are very late in the game, when you beat Battle Royale or Battle Thanos. Probably not what you're seeing. (Soul Gem doesn't do this, if you run out of flips, the game just changes back to normal play with no break.)

Flippers going dead is most often a node board problem, either a loose connection or it's bad and resetting on its own. The other possibility is a trough switch making the game think a ball drained, but you'd know this because it goes to the bonus count.

We see some of these posts and say to ourselves "How in the world is this happening to that guy? Stern engineering should have figured that out from the get-go. Welp, in this case, I along with many of us are 'that guy.'" Ball stuck under Gauntlet. It happens just enough to piss me off, but not enough to do something about it. After happening 4 times...and twice in a row yesterday, I was fed up. I broke out the cardboard and did what I could with the mediocre brain I was given. I then transferred the template to a cheap piece of corner guard from Home Depot I had laying around.

This area is tough to work in and I ended up removing the outer post entirely to make this installation palatable. After some quick cardboard measurements, I ended up with this shape and 2 holes to be drilled. Fun-fact...the second (inside) hole is NOT necessary as it will always be pressed against the impossible inner-nut which made this whole thing work wonderfully. Found it by accident when I drilled the first and knew it would be gripped enough to never move just the one way so I left it. I polished all the marker and light scratches off with some Novus before install.

Get out your fucking magnet because here we go. Put your magnet with the nut through the back corner and your left forefinger through the front bending the plastic ever-so-slightly towards the front of the cab just to get a couple of turns. Then I used this low-profile ratchet system from Lowes to drive it down. It's crude. It's rude, but it works. Almost unnoticeable from the front.

Stern: This design is for sale for either 1 Premium pinball machine of my choice or $8999.
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Two sudden issues:
1. What’s the best way to straighten out the sanctum target so it will not send the ball into the air much of the time after hitting that target?
2. At the end soul gem shot on Stark tower, the ball is not registering as magnet grabs it, to register shot made to capture soul gem. Haven’t looked at it yet, but is it an opto problem?

I originally did basically the exact same thing you did there, but would still get some balls that would jump over it and get stuck behind (very frustrating, because even harder to get the ball out with the lexan piece there).

Hope you have success with your solution!

The picture below shows what I ended up doing, using all existing holes in the plastic... it's a bit of overkill, but haven't had a ball get trapped since in around 2000 plays.

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1. I think you just bend it back down periodically. There are mods to install a stronger bracket if you want. I haven't yet but might soon.

2. The tower magnet should grab the ball to end Soul Gem, but it might happen to miss on any given physical shot. Did this happen repeatedly or just once? In normal play, does the tower magnet grab it when lock is lit?

In normal play, if you can get 4X Arc Reactor shots and lock balls, then the optos are working (for a lock, you just have to make the top switch, the magnet doesn't have to grab it.) If the magnet isn't consistent or never works at all, it's most often a loose connection to it or its node board.

Just got my AIQ Pro (NIB). Noticing that coming out of a Captain Marvel shot or a failed Black Panther shot, the ball usually bounces off the small rubber beneath the ball guide, often making it go dangerously close to STDM. Is this normal? See it bounce sometimes watching YouRube game footage.

There's some wiggle room on that post. You can loosen it and push it farther outward or inward, and hold it in that position as you retighten. I set mine more towards the left so it's a consistent bounce to the left flipper. Originally I was fine on my game, but when I replaced the rubbers, all of a sudden most balls down that guide went to a perfect center drain.

Any recommendations for a powder coat color on a premium?

Thanks for your suggestions!

I just took Stark tower apart and the top opto was not registering. Readjusted, reset and cleaned and now it works! Bent the Sanctum target forward, so hopefully that’ll stop the airballs catapulting with an arch high enough to clear the flippers into the drain, lol.

Yellow, just like our LEs. Love that color and it so matches the artwork. I’d ask Stern their exact color to match it.

Hi my fellow AIQ pinballers. I've searched the forums but can't find any reference to my issue, so my apologies if it has been posted already somewhere. When I have 1 ball locked in the subway and I put a 2nd ball in due to starting Soul Gem quest, the game waits a moment then issues both the balls in the mode from the subway (from subway lock positions 1 and 2), from that moment on it continues to be out of sync continuing to issue a 2nd ball every time you drain one.
There are no technican alerts, the subway optos and trough optos all test ok. I cleaned the trough/subway optos, reseated all connectors/network cables and performed a full update to v1.03 to see if that would fix it, yet still the problem prevails. Code is a v1.03
Appreciate any help to correct this problem or hear if others have experienced the same

Someone has a solution for this in the 3d printer thread.

First thing I'd check would be the subway to see if the last prong on the right is getting stuck in the down position. If the prong lowers to let a ball go to the VUK and gets stuck down, then the ball behind it will also roll into the VUK and get kicked out. The optos and everything can be working correctly but if that prong gets stuck down then that will still happen.

If that's what's happening then you might need to just slightly re-align the subway mech so that prong doesn't get caught on the edge of the white tray it pokes through. It's an easy thing to do. Just slightly loosen the screws under the playfield holding the metal mech in place and very slightly change the alignment so the prong is more centered in the slot it pokes through.

And if it still happens then it could mean the lever on your mech is loose, in which case you might need a replacement mech or to do a fix like one of these:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/official-avengers-infinity-quest-owners-thread-pinsiders-assemble/page/173#post-6565553

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/official-avengers-infinity-quest-owners-thread-pinsiders-assemble/page/149#post-6357961

Thanks for the advise guys. Yes, the flippers are going dead for a split second, along with the lights going black and then the game returns to normal and you can continue playing the same ball. It seems to mostly happen during multi-ball. I have added some light mods to the game, but don't think they're the issue.

What I've done so far. I've reseated all the trough and nearby node board connections. I also updated the game code for a second time. Nothing has helped so far. I'll probably end up establishing a ticket soon.

i just got a new topper and started collecting gems, but they never register on the topper. i have the adjustments set to on and the topper lights work fine.
im on code1.03
in adjustment its #56 topper active in attract mode yes and #57 topper gems start mode yes.
Anything im missing?

Light mods can indeed be the issue. They can pull enough power so that a node board gets underpowered and resets. That it happens in multiball with more going on also points to a power issue. Try disconnecting the light mods and see if it still happens.

My AIQ was NIB from April and I usually wait a bit to wax or really apply any product to the PF/ramps until I get a feel for how it is out of the box and of course I clean & tweak it, but I just want to know what it's supposed to play like unmolested. After about 200 plays, I put some Novus 1 on it, and frick-wow. This thing is juicy!

I also want to say that through the years, I see Novus 1 get knocked for not being 'good enough.' This is untrue and I found out inadvertently. My spray bottle is a somewhat wonky and leaks a bit. I was misting my rag and got a bunch on our wooden floors and let me tell you it's a fucking ice rink in that area.

Novus 1 is perfect for a HUO Modern NIB stern. Novus 2 is typically needed in a location atmosphere where the game gets neglected over a long period of time.

Personally, I’ve switched from using Novus 1 to JJPs recommended wizards mist n shine which works really well too.

Same issue here! New build. Can’t figure it out.

Hey all. Getting my game Friday and was going to order bas from pinball life, but am not sure how many the game has?

Also, what coil stops do I order for this to replace the old turd ones?

Have a couple on hand if you want, but it's not necessary to do anything like replace them all.

https://www.pinballlife.com/flipper-coil-stop-for-sternsega.html
6 balls I think...or 7 with the captive

Yeah, I use Novus 1 all the time. It cleans the buildup off rubber very good as well! I'll clean the flippers around every 100-200 games played and the other rubbers as needed.

I also use Novus 1 to clean the entire playfield and ramps around every 500 games played and then wax with Turtle Wax 53477 Hybrid Solutions Pro Flex Wax, Graphene Spray. I know this goes against "old school" carnauba wax only thoughts that are prevalent in the hobby, but after using that stuff for years, the buildup and wax dust is a pain! I also used Wizard's Mist & shine for a while as well, but the graphene wax lasts longer in my opinion.

Same here, mine needs Novus 1 very often or the Captain Marvel ramp fades and becomes unmakeable. Basically as soon as I can see any ball trails in the inlanes. It can be as little as 40 or 50 games (although my average length of those games is going up quite a bit.)

Any of you have experience with using the Pinhedz products (https://pinhedz.com), thoughts on these?

Ok, got it and thanks!

I'm going to do all the maintenance this week as all my stuff has arrived. Can you you show your DIY coil fans? I have an idea in my head but I don't know exactly how all these things work. I'm better at mechanical vice electrical which is a downside in this hobby, LOL!

Got it and thanks!

Noted also from another Pinsider on an earlier post so I'm going to replace all three coil stops just to be certain.

I have the Diddy CM MOD I just have to install it.

I have not had the problem with the BW ramp jumping off and I assume that is based on the playfield angle. I think I'm going to adjust it a little bit more (once I put it in is home vice the middle of the basement) so i'll come back and report on it.

Another Pinsider said he did a DIY coil fan so I asked if he would post some photos. See if I can do it alittle cheaper but have no problem buying the manufactured ones (not sure of the company).