Spider-Man
Stern, 2007Does anyone else have a ball hang up problem in the back left side of the machine when hitting the Spiderman ramp (NOT the Venom side ramp)?
The ball come around the corner fast, hits the building and then gets stuck off the rail. It is pretty annoying. It happens about every 5th game. I can take the building out and the problem goes away. But a bunch of people bought those buildings right? So what do you do?
Thanks!
Never happened for me before. I had the BAC mods in the game for a while. They crowded the play field and I pulled them out. They didn't cause any of these hangups for me though.
I would suspect you need to move the building down towards the bottom of the playfield more so that the ball never hits it. I have the BAC buildings in mine and the ball clears it all the time.
Could you add some pictures of where you have your buildings please? I have play tested it tons. The issue is with the ball striking the building when it is moving at a high rate of speed.
There is no issue without the building. But I like it too much. I don't want to scrap it.
Quoted from Stack15:Could you add some pictures of where you have your buildings please? I have play tested it tons. The issue is with the ball striking the building when it is moving at a high rate of speed.
There is no issue without the building. But I like it too much. I don't want to scrap it.
I don't think the ball should be touching the building. Perhaps you are bending the wireform when you install the building?
There is enough room for the ball to hop through. But when it comes around fast it flies over the drop in the ramp and brushes the bottom of the building.
I am not sure how the building could go in differently. And the one next to it is flush with a ramp switch housing. So I do not believe that I can just move them all an inch closer to the player.
Quoted from Stack15:There is enough room for the ball to hop through. But when it comes around fast it flies over the drop in the ramp and brushes the bottom of the building.
I am not sure how the building could go in differently. And the one next to it is flush with a ramp switch housing. So I do not believe that I can just move them all an inch closer to the player.
There is a screw in the return trail that is under those buildings. Make sure that is tightened down so the trail in not sticking up too high.
From memory there is also a hex post for supporting the trail that the screw threads into that needs to be tightened down before the screw is tightened down.
I'd recommend going to the BAC website. The directions on there are hard to find and are worse than IKEA, but you can see how they're supposed to be installed.
Thank you all. I have it working now. The circled thing in the picture is part of the wireform. I simply bought some fancy pants velcro stuff and moved the red building about a 1/2 inch higher to where it is just under the glass. I also velcroed it to the building next to it too. All is well.
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