Joined the Pro club today. I feel like the following was already covered but I couldn't find it; sorry. My spinning disk is a bit crooked: one side is flush with playfield but other sticks up a bit. Is it possible to adjust the tilt of the disk to make it level? Thanks.

Thanks. I did look at those. What is covered there about the disk is not my issue as far as I can tell. That post appears to be about the outer ring for the disk (the one with 4 screws in it), rather than the disk itself. My outer ring is fine. The disk itself is crooked. Am I missing something? Thanks.

That was my mistake; I didn't realize it was multiple pages. I will try step 2 tomorrow, though I remain concerned if that step is capable only of raising/lowering. I definitely need some lateral adjustment to fix the fact that the plane of the disk is not quite the same as the playfield. I will try tomorrow and report back. Thanks.

Thanks so much for this, sounds to be exactly my issue. I'll work with my distributor to get one of those kits.

I would like to ask a follow-up question; I appreciate your help and patience. What is supposed to happen when the machine is in switch test mode and the disk gets spun? I would have expected that would trigger some switches. But nothing happens. I looked under the playfield and the connectors to the sensor immediately below the disk shaft are apparently all connected. Am I wrong that spinning the disk in switch test mode should do anything? Thanks.

Thanks so much, it would have taken forever for me to find this. My disk sensors all seem to be ok so my only issue is the leveling problem. I really appreciate the quick and helpful guidance.

I noticed similar statistics for IMDN. I suspect it is calculated as total number of events, divided by total number of games, times 100. Thus something that happens on average once per game gets 100%. Something that happens about 110 times per game would get 11,000%. I am a statistician for my day job so these sorts of things drive me nuts.

Pro owner. I've seen a few posts that reference the same issue I'm having, which is that the spinning disc has a wobble. The "disc leveling" PDF from stern, and their associated adjustment kit, affects only disc height relative to playfield, but seemingly does nothing for wobble. I've disassembled the whole mech and my issue is that when the post is screwed into the disc scoop, there is a wobble. The post is not orthogonal to the plane of the scoop. So no amount of leveling fixes it. Distro and stern have provided no help. Anyone else with this issue come up with a hack? I've gotten it to where there are no more airballs, but the lack of flushness affects how the ball rolls over the disc. Thanks for any help.

Finally blew up my Pro today (by my standards) after 400 games...894 million, 15 trophies, 4 gems, almost made the third set of collected avengers. Now need to figure out how to use gems well and maybe I'll break 1B.

I had same issue (wobbly disc) and got stern to send replacement. It did take almost four months from initial request. In the meantime I split the difference as best as possible. It has to be adjusted to at least avoid airballs otherwise the PF gets hammered.

Exactly my sentiments. I hadn't been to my local pinball joint in 4 months, and have been playing my home AIQ Pro almost exclusively in that time. Finally made it out to location Friday and set my lifetime high scores on three different games in about an hour. I'm more disciplined and can get ball control so much more easily. AIQ = boot camp.

I have a question about extra balls. The tiltforums rules list 12 captain marvel loops (360 spins on pro) to qualify an extra ball in one place, but in a different place say 50 loops (1500 spins) is needed. I've gotten a few extra balls during game that I wasn't sure whether they were from grid award or achieving captain marvel target. Any clarification on the rules would be helpful. Thanks.

Unreliable launch is a problem across all models. Even Raymond Davidson in his videos manual plunges during soul gem to avoid unreliable autolaunch. No amount of tweaking seemed to fix it for me. Best thing I've found is keeping shooter lane frequently waxed. Doesn't last long but works for a while.

My factory orange spring was weak and I replaced it with one from eBay and manual plunge now makes the ramp. For autoplunge my only successful method has been frequent waxing.

My new favorite goal is to get iron man multiball queued up, two portal locks, and start reality gem. Pretty soon you have six balls going, bashing drops to start timed modes, and getting a ton of points.

Is the "progressing avengers" EB written down anywhere? I don't recall this one and am curious if it applies only to the first time 3 avengers reach Lv2.

The replacement bushing kit does nothing for this problem. I eventually got stern to send me a new disc, which was also mildly out of plane but works well enough. It took them months to send.

Hi all. I have a Pro. Anyone have some good hacks for wiping/waxing the hard-to-reach parts of the playfield without having to do a major tear down? I'm thinking specifically about the back part of the launch path since launch success is so temperamental on this machine. Thanks.

Thanks. My best so far is a towel wrapped around a big plastic thingy that goes in a fancy tropical mixed drink. It's flexible enough to go around bends and you can apply some pressure.

Taking a page from the deeproot playbook

So close to 1B...

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I believe you need soul gem, and have attempted at least two other gems. You do not need to have collected either of those two other gems. If you have not collected at least one of those two gems, and you successfully complete Thanos attacks, you get a gem. I think if you go into Thanos attacks with soul gem plus the two others, and you beat the mode, you get some victory laps multiball IIRC.

I don't recall what the default settings are for flipper coils but you should make sure your right flipper coil strength is at max before trying more drastic measures. This is somewhere in the game adjustments service menu.

As of next month, I will have 4 Elwins in a 4-pin collection. They all feel different, unique and brilliant. That being said, if I ever found room for 5, it would be DP.

Reduce trough eject power (as low as you can without getting misfires). I didn't mess with slingshot power but that matters a lot for how hard it plays.

I have all four Elwin Pros and AIQ hadn't been getting much love recently. Fired it up this week and was reminded how awesome this game is. So many strategies and so many shots.

insight tonight about this game. The rule set is apparently polarizing, but it's hard to beat in a home environment. I noticed that the stacking potential on this game seems deeper than any other game I can think of. The possibilities are endless but here is my current favorite. Get time gem on black widow. Then sometime when you have two portal locks, queue up both Thor and IM multiballs. Start reality gem quest and one of the two multiballs. When you can take clean shots, take them but otherwise spam the hell out of the drops and mystery particularly during ball save time. Stack some timed modes and then spam black widow when you can to keep them all going. Trophies start racking up and then you may be near extra ball. Get some victory laps and opportunistic multiball jackpots and feel like a gosh darn king!

It would be interesting to have an ego award for longest duration of disc spin (in addition to highest RPM) .

Hi
I have a recurring issue with my Pro. The following two things happen simultaneously:
1. disc does not register spins
2.lights in lower half of playfield go out

It usually goes from 100% functional, to a brief period when the disc works intermittently and lights in lower playfield are wonky, to the disc will not register during testing and lights in lower half of playfield will not register during test of all LEDs

The fix is always for me to lift the playfield and wiggle and/or reseat wires. I usually focus on the ethernet-like cables into the node boards simply because they are easy to reseat, and then fiddle with others until I'm out of patience. The fix always works but never lasts more than 30-40 games.

Ideas on what specifically could be the problem? Bad jack, bad cable, bad board? I suspect it's one bad jack or cable but not sure which. I could do a massive experiment to narrow it down but I'm hoping the collective expertise here can narrow my search

Thanks.

Actually I think the GI is fine, but am not sure and will check next time it happens. But all LEDs on lower playfield are out.

I have about 1250 games on my Pro. The right flipper started feeling a little "bouncy," meaning when activated and held, and a ball hit it, I could feel it giving a little bit. I thought this was the usual sign of a failing coil stop. So I replaced the coil stops and sleeves on all three flippers last night. But the problem remains. What's the next diagnostic step? Or should I just go straight to a flipper rebuild (which I've never done and would be thrilled for any pointers to documentation/video guidance). Thanks all.

Thanks for this tip. Adjustment of EOS switch worked like a charm. It was a great learning experience to play with the whole flipper mech to get the switch dialed in.

Beat up on AIQ pro tonight at least by my standards. Defeated Battle Royale, what does it take to get to Battle Thanos?

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Thanks for the tips, makes sense how to start Battle Thanos. Tonight what did me in was beating Battle Royale, which I think gave me the soul gem (I had blown the soul gem quest way earlier), which then put me into a Thanos Attacks with 5 gems. I don't recommend that haha, though I got down to three shots left on the last gem before I drained.

Hello-

I have an AIQ Pro. The following issue recurs. During the game, the disc stops registering spins, and the LEDs in the lower half of the playfield behave oddly. Either they shut off entirely, or randomly light inconsistent with what's actually going on in the game (e.g. the lit Avengers inserts don't correspond to what's actually collected). The random lighting of the LEDs often changes when I operate the flippers (??). I don't seem to be able to trigger it by shaking the machine.

In diagnostics, when the machine is having one of these "episodes," the lower half LEDs don't light when running "Test All LEDs." The disc does not register spins. Node board bus tests all pass.

Shutting the machine on and off often, but not always, fixes the problem temporarily. It always comes back though, some random number of games later.

It seems (to me) a problem with node board 8. I have replaced the ethernet cord between node boards 8 and 9. I have reseated every connection in node board 8. Neither has helped.

Is swapping the node boards the next logical thing to try?

Thanks for any insights!