One of the best EMs I've ever played surely deserves its own club?

I also wanted somewhere to post little bits and bobs that don't really need their own thread.

For instance, I noticed an inconsistency in the manual on page 8.

The list has 18 A and 4 B: Screenshot from 2017-12-19 09-20-09 (resized).png
The diagram has 20 A rubbers and 3 B. PBR's kit includes enough to do both. I think the difference is the top left 1" guide. If you use 2 A rubbers as the diagram indicates I'm pretty sure the ball can smash the bulb: Screenshot from 2017-12-19 09-17-35 (resized).png
The other 1" guide further down uses a single B rubber: Screenshot from 2017-12-19 09-19-34 (resized).png
I think the single 1" rubber is the better idea and the pictures I can find on IPDB agree:
http://ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2195&picno=39380
http://ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2195&picno=55861

Hang on, accidentally? There's got to be a good story here.

Only matched by the frustration when you think you've nail it and it rattles between the posts on the 6 lane.

Really? The longest bar makes the lowest note so I always wire the thousands to the shortest, highest bar, the hundreds in the middle and the tens on the longest, lowest note.

Ting ting ting for thousands and tong tong tong for hundreds and tonk tonk tonk for tens.

Yes, it should chime. To test I'd swap the coloured wires on the chime coils. If it starts chiming fine, the chime unit is the issue. If it continues to not work on a chime position that did before, it's something else in the wiring.

It's funny, it's one of those things I'd never really considered could be done differently. I made a poll: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/how-do-you-wire-your-chime-unit

Also gives the options of pulling the ground for a quieter play.

What happens when you tap the score 5000 relay?

Yup, the risk reward in punting the centre bumper to move the 10x to drops you still have standing vs just hitting what you've got and getting the bank to reset...

It's a firm favourite on Friday night's with mates, who all yell at each other once someone manages to get "The Red Star of Don't Panic" lit aand laugh mightily at the inevitable instadrain... and cheer when someone does manage a nice quick couple of knocks.

If you have the machine set to liberal and 2 lights are lit, it's more obvious that this is what's happening. The 7 will remain lit, but the lower number will still increment on the place holder steps.

I had similar issues with the one I had, and it was especially annoying across the drop of the drops. Decided to get it clear coated to level things out.

I started from something like this: pasted_image (resized).png

Partway through clearing: pasted_image (resized).png

Done: pasted_image (resized).png

Didn't touch up all the wear or anything other than repainting the white under the plastics, so it still fits the beat up cabinet etc, and sure, no longer original, but it plays right now.

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Somehow I don't think I ever linked to the thread I had about fixing this up... https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/gottlieb-sky-jump

Correct. Primarily this is during scoring 5x anything (eg the drops) as the motor needs to run for that.