Here is a little mod I am working on. Ripley travels the world so I thought I’d add a globe somewhere on the playfield.
Had an extra globe from AliExpress, wanted it for a shooter rod but ordered the wrong size.
The base is a work in progress. That blue piece is just something laying around in my garage. Took a flex led and added longer leads to it.

Also I changed the stand up posts on either side of the scoop. The ones from the factory were bent after taking a beating.

The last thing I am working on is getting the ball to launch all the way up to the top rollovers. I can barely get it there with a full plunge and I have to snap it. Thinking of just going up to the next spring tension.

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Follow up on ball plunging.

Tried installing a red spring, it just felt way too stiff. There was zero bounce from the shooter, just a thud.

Then I noticed the plunger tip was no where near hitting the center of the ball. In fact it was rubbing the auto launch mech. After pushing playfield hard to one side and moving the shooter housing as much as possible. The tip was no where near the center of the ball.

2 options, shim the shooter housing or enlarger the hole in the cabinet.

I choose to enlarge the hole in the cabinet. Burr on the end of the drill did the trick. Now the plunger tip hits the center of the ball. Can easily plunger the top rollovers consistently and on a good snappy plunge the ball can loop all the way around to the upper flipper. My slope is 6.5 degrees.

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If I jam the playfield hard to one side or the other I am still pretty centered on the ball. No rub on the auto launch mech. There is a centering clip mounted on the side of the cabinet. It pretty much takes away any misalignment when lowering.

They look great!

I have never touched mine. Middle 50% of the time, left 15% and right 35%. My playfield is 6.8 degrees, leveled with PinGuy app.

You can always wire the star post to the arrow above so the scoop lites when there an an award to collect.

One other person in the club was saying the same thing. The ball wasn’t feeding his upper flipper properly out for the vuk. There was no solution posted but it is a common annoyance.

On my game, it’s about 75 / 25 on a ball a bit out of reach of the upper flipper. Good but could be better.

Agreed it should feed it 100%. There is just too much play in the exit of the wireform to be consistent 100%. When I do a shop job on my game I’ll look to rectify the issue.

I put a yellow target decal from Earthshaker on my vari-target. Stuck on and then trimmed with an exacto knife.

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Perfect. Done by VBob and he is one of the best.

Posts some pics of your playfield. I see a couple of mods...

I have pin2dmd installed. Coloring is done by VBob and it’s perfectly done.