Dropping this here for future reference in case anyone is troubleshooting the safe assembly. I recently replaced all of the metal parts, switches and diodes in my safe, but it was still only registering half of the hits. I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out what was the issue, and then I recorded a slow motion video using my phone. I noticed that the entire safe housing was moving around quite a bit after a hard hit. After wiggling the assembly from the top side, I noticed that there was a lot of play in movement inside the bushings where the safe mech penetrates the playfield. I ordered two replacement bushings to see if that was the issue, and turns out the diameter opening on the new ones is noticeably smaller than the ones installed. Not sure if this is due to the age of the nylon, or the constant abuse from the mech hitting against it, but it has made a significant difference. The safe moves significants less when hit, and now registers hits correctly.

You can clearly see the difference in the picture.
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Good find!

Joined the club tonight! Got one with beautiful powder coated rails and LED screen I’m big into cool mods. I plan on adding the new Bing mirror blades and maybe a different translite. Any other cool mods I should be aware of?

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Congrats! I pimped my Sopranos out and love it. These are a nice addition for starters:

https://pinside.com/pinball/market/shops/1054-flashinstinct/00669-sopranos-target-decals

Bing mirror blades?

New from Pingraffix.com

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Nice. Interested to see what these look like installed.

Ordered them last night. I’ll post pics once installed.

Rubber question. What color bands were factory? I have white in most of them now but they are toast and need to order more.

Also curious as to what non-Factory combos people found appealing. I’m aware of the user made kits on Titans website but those don’t have any pics.

This game doesn’t have a ton of visible rubbers so lower playfield combos are what I’m most interested in

Got all kinds of odds and ends lights hidden up there. Some even missing so plugged a few in. Just curious as what the color order should be or what looks coolest. Also wanting them LED so which style would be best, clear, frosted, etc?

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I believe they should all be yellow (stock)

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Mine came with the truck so that’s good

I used Ghost Buster 1-SMD-LED (White) #44/47 Bayonet Base Lamp With Flexible 90° Angle on backboard behind the 7 people and 1 horse that get whack.

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Hi guys!

Can someone send me a PM with the Sopranos plastics scans?

I have found one without many plastics

I tried to reply to your PM but it won't let me attach a file so hopefully this will be ok. Let me have your email if you want the original which I guess will be higher rez.

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Where did you get these bushings? How hard was it to disassemble the safe?

I bought new Roller switches and Am considering Some new metal for each side of the safe.

Like the mod, would you know what the scale is on the truck?

Marco specialties. It’s not hard to disassemble the safe. Remove a plastic, two nuts from the topside, and disconnect the cable assembly from the underside.

Thanks. I believe it's 1/87 (HO scale).

I am looking for the translite you have. If you are interested in selling or trading, please let me know. Below is an image of the one I have.

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What color are the fish eye bulbs? Was thinking of getting in there and trying different colors. Any suggestions. Also, are they wedge or bayonet? I assume they are same size as all the other playfield bulbs etc.

I changed all my lights to LED's. I didn't change the Fish Eyes. I my memory serves me it was a totally different bulb or just to hard to change out. I'm thinking is was different 99% sure.

Yeah I agree - kinda hard to get to and Also thinking different bulb. I used the pinballbulbs kit when I did mine which uses cool white and I think that looks great

So I was waiting around for someone and decided to poke around my Sopranos issue of the trough up kicker not firing. I realized I didn't bring my DMM, so I was able to try grounding the coil to test fire. First time I have done that! scary the first time. So i had a wire with alligator clips on each end. I had the game open, pulled the interlock so 50v was on. I put the alligator clip on the small brown/blk lug (not yellow/power) and then touched the other end to the ground nut on near the right flipper button. Did not fire. Tried the auto fire coil and it worked great. So I'll have to bring my DMM and test for power at the coil, then work back to the board to see if there is a break in the line or board issue.

I did replace Q1, and that didn't fix this....so a new issue to figure out!

Got the Bing mirror blades installed. They look a bit better in person. Hard to see the stencils of the girls via photo

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Anything looks better than just plain black. Where did you purchase those from. Looks good.

https://www.pingraffix.com/product-page/the-sopranos-mirrorbladez-stern-pinball

You could do rivets or maybe then a small screw with a lock nut. Depends on room/space for the ball and how ugly you’re okay with it looking.

Looks great!

Hello Everyone. My first post. Only game I have currently is The Sopranos. Bought it new years ago because my wife and I are both huge fans of the show. Hoping to get my second machine very, very soon!

Well then ... stop posting and start buying already!

Congratulations! You've already made a great collection start - Sopranos is a bitchin' game!

Gives me a "bad case of fuckfaceitis" every time I play!!!

Hi all! I recently became an owner of The Sopranos. It was unboxed all this time so it's technically brand new. It's only my 2nd pin and also my only one with a WhiteStar system. My other is a Stern JP LE Spike 2.

Reaching out here b/c I've been scratching my head over the sound quality of the pin. I do understand it's older technology that didn't allow for high quality sound files. I'm just looking for a sanity check around what I'm hearing. Most of the callouts are very muffled and some kind of distorted sounding. Also the music is very boomy/bass-y and sounds rolled off on the high frequencies. I do have the latest 5.0 Game and Display EPROMs. What I don't have are the very latest sound ones. But according to the release notes, nothing really changed sound wise since the versions I have.

I started a detailed thread about this here: https://beta.pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/stern-sopranos-whitestar-audio-quality-questions

Would anyone be able to take a look/listen, perhaps compare to your own machine and let me know if the sound I'm describing is expected or not? Really appreciate the help, happy to take more videos or pics if needed.

Here's the correct link to that thread: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/stern-sopranos-whitestar-audio-quality-questions

What’s beta Pinside? Tried to visit thread but it’s asking for log in info??

I can’t use the link either. However think of the old games like using a cassette, with JP having uncompressed above cd top quality.

Have you watched any YouTube videos of sopranos? My game is at my office or I’d try to record something quick

Sorry about that, this is the right link: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/stern-sopranos-whitestar-audio-quality-questions
Beta is WIP for the next site updates. Has a cool notifications feature to notify you for new forum posts and such that you subscribe to. Reach out to moderator Robin (handle is simply 'robin') to request access if you want.

I have watched a couple videos but it's hard to tell. Here's the short video I took of my machine running the sound tests (same video as in my other thread):

Maybe you can run through the same and take a video? I appreciate it!

Any good custom instruction cards for this game? Recently picked one up finally after years and years of searching!

Congrats!!! Enjoy!!!

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/custom-apron-cards-printable-versions-only/page/9#post-5210389

Anybody have a guess what a NOS playfield is worth?

timlah79 ill try and takes look tomorrow — but agree that on mine the sound is sort of similar to what you describe, although my buddy came by and upgraded it a while back with new speakers and possibly clipped a couple resistors or caps on the sound board? Trying to remember now.. I could be mixing that up with a different pin. It does sound better for sure, but not quite hifi

I’ve seen one somewhere a while back.. possibly even on Marco? $650-900 range??

I joined the family last weekend and I'm absolutely loving the game. I believe it is a HUO based on the shape and having under 100 total plays. Will be holding on to this one for a while for sure!

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Hey Mbecker ! Just curious if you had a chance to look into this at all. Appreciate the help!

To me, sounding the same

Thanks so much Mbecker ! Yeah that does sound exactly like mine. If yours has always sounded like that I suppose this is normal, hmm. Wonder if there's a way to improve it. I am actually looking around for an outboard EQ I could run the game's output to to try to clean it up, at least make the entire machine less boomy.

Just looking for a motor for the girls . I have a customer with a bad one. Replaced belt. Motor has no torque. Thanks in advance! JR

FWIW, mine sounds the same too, but I thinks it's okay personally - seems like pretty typical Stern White Star system audio. I hooked up a Polk subwoofer as well to my game and it's an improvement.