I picked my slug fest up yesterday (paid for at the beginning of this Covid mess). It's been on my "wanted" list for a long while. Now I just need to find a CPO, convert to LED and add a card catcher (after I drill out the silly tubular lock on the card holder).

Unfortunately the coin door is a mess from when they added the core cashless system.

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Apparently my slugfest had a good run for a couple of years

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And that doesn't even count the last 13 years on location after those numbers. (it came from Indiana Beach)

What type of bulb do you have in position 58 (2nd base ?) I was working on an LED conversion for my slugfest last night and 2nd base according to the manual is a 555 but on mine it's a 44/47 type socket.

I got my card catcher today ! Can anybody give me an idea of how your's is mounted ? My game had one at some point (the wood is a different color where the catcher went) but it looks like the screws towards the center were bolts and the ones by the side were screws ?.

Ok so the card dispenser after a major cleaning kinda works but has anybody replaced the rubber roller in the dispenser ? I'm guessing that I can find something similar ? This one is pretty dried out.

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Are they on the drum (brown part) or are they on the metal shaft on each end of the drum ?. Can you please post a picture so I know what I'm looking for ?

I'm afraid to cut off the drum and see if the metal drum looks the same or not. I may have to just bite the bullet.

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So I got bold and took a flat blade screw driver to the brown dried out rubber. I do not have the same metal drum with the o-ring grooves in it. My metal drum is smooth so I'm guessing I need to find a pc of rubber tubing around the same size.

I have some o-rings on the way but I'm pretty sure the gap between the roller and the metal shelf the cards sit on will be too small.

Ignore my last message, I was reading that as putting an oring over the brown rubber drum and not the smooth metal drum.

For anybody following the adventure I took the plunge and cut off the dried out rubber tube. I wound up installing 4x 18mm x 4mm o-rings on the metal drum. I tested it out and it works very well with the exception of double card dispensing every once in a while. I'm using glossy on both sides cards (first ones I grabbed to test with) so I'm guessing that's the issue. Since it will be home use I'm not really concerned and will find some proper cards to test with later.

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Still pulling multiple cards, is there any way to adjust the gap or do I need to find larger o-rings ?

Nevermind, found the adjustments on page 58 of the manual...... RTFM of course

The oval shape on that part should be even all the way around, if you look at yours the one end is worn way out of shape which will cause alot of wobble / slack in the bat movement.

The 3 bulbs behind the mesh fence are GI Illumination Outfield. Test 6 General Illumination and cycle through until you get to the outfield.

I recently got one from user: MRSANRAMON
https://pinside.com/pinball/community/pinsiders/mrsanramon

My slugfest doesn't even have that decal.

The line from my dispenser is about 27" long from the back of the dispenser and plugs into a harness with a connector inside the machine right by the dispener casing

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https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/slugfest-club-back-back-back-back%e2%80%a6-gone/page/19#post-5782250

Just make sure you adjust the dispense motor assembly afterwards (3 screws on the left hand side)

Oh and also it looks like there were two different metal drums, one with grooves for orings at the ends in it and one that is completely flat (mine was flat). If you go a few posts before the link above you will see my post about how it looked before.

If you have the grooves your o-ring size might be different but I just ordered this box o o-rings from amazon since I had no idea what size I needed and might need other o-rings in the future.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WRF9YYC/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s00

This guy used pinball rubbers:

58" long, 24" wide. 41" tall with the top , 31" tall w/o the top. These measurements do not include the card catcher or the plastic topper as they are both easy to take off.

I didn't but it's typically recommended for pins and I normally don't remove them from there either.

https://www.phoenixarcade.com/search/node/slugfest

Double check that it's not really in there. Some people have posted about the dispenser being blocked off but still back behind the plate.