the first is with the top of my phone touching the middle two drop targets, sitting on the playfield; the second is the side rail level

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i doubt very much that either of those is totally accurate i used to keep my F-14 at 8.5 degrees and i'm here to tell you that that STh ain't at 8.5 degrees

Gotcha thanks! I can still use my phone level as a point of reference to dial it in even if it’s not accurate at least hah

Here you go! The steel was a little heavier gauge than I thought, so I pretty much used up two cutting wheels on my rotary tool. Took me about an hour from start to finish, mainly because I was cutting freehand with the rotary tool (I would say ‘Dremel tool’, but I use Milwaukee products). I took my time and tried to get my cuts as straight as possible. Electrical tape on the backside was my solution for light seal.

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yeah for example it says there's a -.4 degree x-axis tilt but if i set the ball behind the drops there's a 50/50 chance of it rolling either left or right when it gets trapped back there which seems fine to me

^^^ thanks for that, that's not where it's binding up though. it's past the opto. but not quite to the post, as i've circled here

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it's extremely irritating because sometimes it's just fine, 4 balls get in Mystery at once and it kicks them out just fine. then sometimes there are only 3 and it binds up to the point where you have to take the glass off because the post fires and fires and then just...stops firing and doesn't send a chase ball. you can also nail the three stuck balls there with a 4th ball, and you can also shake it loose sometimes. rest assured, though, if you have a billion on the board and two extra balls in the bank, it's going to stick and you're going to tilt it

so you pull the glass, lose the ball, sadly put the balls in the left side ramp to drain down. theoretically, if i enabled ballsave or whatever in the operator menu- where would i put the unstuck balls? just...throw them in the pops? trap up? if i put them in the shooter lane it's gonna be ugly. trying to think of a fair way to keep scoring if this happens again.

A couple questions for you longer term owners.

1) On my Stranger Things, there is no way to hit the right most two demo drops from a plunge. If I plunge softer, it doesn't make it to the drops. If I plunge harder, it will always hits the left two drops or goes into the mystery lane. I assume that I have to maybe loosen and bend the shooter lane ball guide toward the shooter lane so that it can get a straighter trajectory? Anyone have to adjust this?

2) Regarding removing the demo. What plastics have to be removed? I read multiple posts (and most of this topic) with pieces of info, but still not clear everything that has to be removed. Then I understand that 3 bolts have to be removed from the demo itself, 2 from the bottom and one from the top. Is the circle in red the one from the top? If so, what is the easiest way to get to it? I assume the area circled in blue is where the two bolts from underneath attach.

Thanks in advance!

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i don't think you are meant to hit Mystery from the plunge- maybe turn that power down a little on the autoplunge? also check to make sure the shooter is seated properly in the cabinet so that it strikes the center of the ball?

as for the demo- 19 is what you want to remove/adjust and yes 14 is the redundant screw that becomes unneccessary after the adjustment. i got mine out differently than others do by sort of flexing a plastic on the left side of the Demo but many here have posted about how they did it, check the key posts at the top of the thread

This is on manual plunge. Based on what you are saying, it seems like my ball guide exiting the shooter lanes is angled too far down as any trajectory is to the left half of the drops. It needs a bit more upward trajectory over left trajectory. There is no speed of plunge that will make it hit the far 2 right drops. This basically makes an MXV shot impossible.

i mean i hit the MXV shot from U sometimes...there's a weird, funky cadence on the plunger to hit either the saucer or the MXV shot. do you have an aftermarket shooter? if so, did you install it? it's not hard to have it just be off a little bit and mess things up. as i said before- and don't do this- but if it doesn't feel like you could lift the machine by the shooter handle it's probably not installed right

All stock. Only thing I have done to machine is install UV kit and put Mylar under left ramp where ball guide goes underneath.

so there are three ways to try to make skillshots and for me, generally depends on how much 4 roses i've had

1. full power plunge, release when the arrow is at the left most target. will hit the 2nd from left drop no matter what for an easy 5 mil, no timing needed.

2. try to look at the markers on the shooter gauge and pull the plunger back far enough to where i've hit the saucer with a gentle, arcing shot in the past, hold it there, and let it go.

3. the magical, mystery drunken plunge where...i can't really explain it...you...leave your hand on the plunger longer and don't hold it at the far end of a short plunge, to do the MXV shot. like...following through on a baseball swing or putt increases the amount of time the ball is in contact with the ball/club and changes the momentum as such.

or maybe im just high i guess what i'm saying is, experiment with how you plunge before you start tearing shit apart

edited to say that in the long run, the skill shots are both pretty cool, but in the grand scheme of things, neither is very many points. i think you get a drawing for a MXV though?

you could also try a different spring tension on the shooter, i spose

I have a new pro with the same issue. Was also thinking I had to straighten the ball guide out the shooter lane.

sorry yall, i even searched the thread but didnt see anyone else with this specific issue.

Trust me. I have tried every level of plunge and there is no plunge that will hit the right two targets.

I am also not looking forward to taking the demo out to experiment.

And therein lies my problem. I can’t plunge and hit third or fourth from left.

Dumb question and I know I’ve seen the answer here before but what exactly is the MXV skill shot? I’ve gotten it before on location by accident but I can’t remember. I know you have to hit the skill shot and super skill shot in one plunge, but whenever I hit the skill shot the super skill shot light goes out. Am I supposed to go for the super first then the normal skill shot? Feel like I’m missing something

it's plunger to arrow to saucer with no other switch hits and very little time in between. its not possible to flip and hit the MXV shot but you do have time for a quick nudge...

off the N is how I recommend trying it but you can do it off the U also. complicating the shot is the fact that every game plunges a little different

edit: to the dude not wanting to do the demo adjustment: dont be stubborn like me. its really a different game when you can hit that shot and the adjustment is really not bad at all. getting that one screw out is the most onerous part and you only have to do it one time.

holy shit i just had a ball smash into the ball locked on the tk magnet and reject back down the ramp and stdm

magnets, how the f*ck do they work?

My shooter lane gate just snapped in half today. lol yay warranty!

Well, I took the right ramp and all plastics off. I adjusted that right shoot lane guide every way until Sunday and nothing really improves it. I even tried taking some of the sharp bend out of it hoping that would angle the ball up more rather than left. No dice.

Anyway, not that important to me right now. Played a game or so and this happened. Happy with that given I have only had this for a week.
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I swear the other night I soft plunged to the left flipper and flipped the MXV….maybe it was a dream

I have flipped the super skill shot to the saucer many times but never the MXV.

a backhand to the saucer from the left flipper off of a drop target would probably be one of history's greatest pinball shots, unless it had that weird spin that going through Mystery a bunch of times will sometimes put on the ball

I think I said it weird earlier haha. I short plunged to the left flipper. Then I hit either the “N” or “!” drop target. Then the ball ricocheted from the drop target to the left rubber post on the right ramp and then into the saucer.

Just took delivery of the game and wanted to know what flipper power is everybody using? I am currently at 175. If I start to go higher the ball will shoot off the ramps.

On a similar note, I will have to adjust my outer left and right lane as it sends the ball down to the slingshots almost every time. The plunger lane will needs to be adjusted as it hits the mystery spot all the time.

Other than that, this game is hard, but fun.

Can anyone tell me if this pin is more generic Stranger Things or does it focus the theme around a specific season?

I ask because I finally got around to watching the show so now I'm interested in the pin, but I was quite shocked at the decline in quality from the first two seasons to the third.

I'd be interested in this pin if it's more generic but if it's based on the third season and is plastered with "nerd" callouts, sailor suits and cliche russians I think I'll just avoid it...

The game is based on seasons 1 and 2. 6 modes/scenes from each season.

Personally, when i buy a used pin, the first thing i do is to set back the default settings and troubleshoot if there is residuals issues.

yeah, everything is set stock power wise on mine, and it's fine

175 flipper power seems WAY too low. There should not be problems with ball jumping off ramps at full power. At 175 I am surprised the ramp and orbit are consistently achievable. What is your playfield pitch?

If you can get your shooter lane dialed in to hit all the drops, let me know how you did it. I spent over an hour last night with negligible improvement. I can hit 2nd target from left over to mystery shot.

How can you have 80s nostalgia w/o Russian bad guys??

Haha, I'll say the russians were probably the least egregious of the things that annoyed me about season 3, just an easy example. They actually had more depth than the politician and newspaper guys who were completely one dimensional.

yeah season 3 was real bad

I'm just glad they didn't do any modes around the city episodes. Where's mama doesn't really count to me as it wasn't in the city

Cointaker has the premium UV kit in stock for $279.

Kudos to them for not price-gouging: I will be sure to remember this when making future purchase decisions.

https://cointaker.com/products/stranger-things-uv-lighting-kit1

Ditto. I overpaid a bit but I also didn’t want to not secure one. Bit by the FOMO.

it's utterly worth it. without the UV kit you're missing half of the show and game's theme

Already did that at the lane exit. Will look at the plunger side later. One video is before and one is after.

I even manually wedged something in to reduce the arc in hopes it would shoot more upward but if I did that too much it would nick the orbit guide.

Anyway, I played more with the demo since that is more critical than the skill shot.

I played more with the demo shot and I have determined that I likely do not need to adjust mine at this time.

Below are two back to back videos of the shot from the left flipper at 250 power setting. 255 would result in it hitting a tad too high. The right flipper shot is similar even though I don’t have the video.

I do believe it gets a bit tougher as time goes due to some flipper fade. I am going to install PinMonk flipper coil fans like I have done on my AIQ.

In the game following this, I trapped a ball in each flipper and literally sunk both back to back in the demo to move to the next phase of Trap ‘em.

is the wire from the UV kit restricting the movement of the shooter lane gate and making the ball stick? hard to tell from that 3 second video

Nope. I even did one with holding the shooter lane gate up so it was a completely clear path. I will come back to it at some time. The only thing I can’t do is the MXV shot which isn’t something I would probably go for much anyway.

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