Hey everyone. New to pinball and stranger things is my first pin. Ive been ironing out a lot of issues with help from chuck wurt he’s the man! Wanted to run this last issue past you guys for advice. Since day one I’m having insane air balls when shooting at the Demogorgon. Like it’s hitting the glass constantly and flying to all sides of the table. I’ve had the ball fly off the table when the glass is off! Sometimes the ball even lands on his head and stays there. I recorded a slow mo video for you guys to check out and maybe give me some suggestions on adjusting the demo. To me it looks like the ball actually uses the “pedals” as a launch ramp. Any advice on how to adjust this would be awesome. The pitch of the table is spot on 6.5. Thanks in advance! Here’s a link to the video:

Thanks for the help guys. I haven’t waxed anything, this is how it came from the factory. Do you guys think increasing the pitch might make it harder for me to hit the tk lock? I’m hesitant to mess with the pitch now that I have that lock dialed in pretty well. I am not consistent at all with the shot. I hit it occasionally but it seems more like a fluke rather than skill. Is there a detailed guide for adjusting this thing? Chuck I think you are right about it hitting low.

Thanks chuck I’ll check it out his posts to see if I can get a better idea what to do. All I saw was the highlighted post about adding washers to raise it up. I assume maybe I would just add washers to the rear screws to sort of tilt the head foward? I have to do more research.

Thanks for the replies. I’m going to try this out tonight! Were you guys also getting the crazy air balls when it was shooting low?

Quick question if you remember. I’m trying to remove the Demogorgon. I believe it’s just 2) 11/32” nuts on the underside of the Playfield and a 1/4” zip screw on the top side? Looks like I need to remove the left ramp to get to that 1/4” screw. Sound right?

Awesome thanks!

Wow is all I can say. I removed the spacers and replaced them with a single washer on each screw. Also removed the rubber post on top of the one way gate. What a huge difference! First shot nailed the demo right in the mouth. I’m hitting it pretty consistent now. Also while I still am getting the occasional air balls (much less than before) almost none of them are hitting the glass. Before I’d say about 75% would slam the glass. It was crazy. When I had it all taken apart I debated bending the actual metal frame as mentioned in the linked post but decided against it for now. I have a feeling if the demo was more level instead of slightly pitched back it would eliminate all the air balls. But I’m happy with how it is now, so I’m going to see what happens. Thanks everyone for the help!

Hey guys, is there a setting to turn down the overall brightness of all the leds? During start up of my premium the projector kicks on first without any lights and looks so great! Then the lights kick on and it really washes out the picture on the projector. Was wondering if I could dial it all down a little? I went into rgb test mode and lowered the settings but it doesn’t save it. Thanks!

Thanks so much! And I’m loving your fans btw! Keeping the coils nice and cool!

So I updated my premium to Clelands newest release and it’s been awesome. One thing of note that surprised me. I made sure to save my settings to a usb stick before updating the SD card but for some reason the projector settings didn’t make the transfer. On the old code I had tweaked some of the settings just to get the images to project more centered on the targets. Not a big deal, I did it again with the new update but I just found this weird. Anyone notice this or did I do something wrong? All the regular settings and high scores transferred perfectly.

Thanks chuck but I had dialed in the projector settings way before I backed up to usb. Oh well, just a warning to everyone that you may lose those settings when updating the code.

Wow that is pretty awesome.

Topper looks kind of cool. I’m on the fence. Anyone know the height of it? Not sure if I have the headroom.

Hey guys finally got around to updating my code. What’s the deal with the button turning red when fighting the demogorgon? I pressed it and it instantly gave me 5000 points and the ramp shut?

Ah ok makes sense. Cool idea! Thanks

Oh cool I hadn’t even noticed. I have to try that out, thanks! Anyone get their topper yet? I ended up ordering from coin taker. Not sure when they are shipping but hopefully soon.

I’m no expert but I’m sure you need full strength or you’ll never make it up the TK ramp

I like the m4 as a possible worst case scenario back up, but I guess my question is will the image size line up correctly with the projection screens in the game? I see with most of these mini projectors the only way to increase or decrease screen size is by physically moving the unit closer or farther from the projection screen. Obviously we wouldn’t be able to do that with it mounted in the machine under the apron. Thoughts?