I just got my STTNG setup (on the 2nd floor no less, don't ask) and after spending half the day working on installing AnyPin, I'm getting pretty happy with it. The two main issues I'm having are the flashers don't seem to be working, but more importantly, striking the left target next to the Beta Ramp causes the ball to fly up into the spiral habitrail which usually causes a drain.

I looked at the targets and they are bent downward so I'm a bit baffled about why it might be doing that.

Anyone have any thoughts?

Well one issue was the slope was way too high. I think I had the pinball iPhone app miscalibrated. It's now as close to 6.5 as I can get on carpet and, while not as bad, it still hits is about 25% of the time.

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Hmm well I say that, but it's more like 50% maybe. The problem is that it tends to cause the spiral habitrail to shake loose and become misaligned. When that happens, the ball can't make it up to the back of the playfield (say to lock a Borg ball).

Found this video that was fairly helpful:

Noticed PinballLife has black pads that are cheap enough so I may give that a shot. The pads don't look bad, though they are black so hard to tell, and they do seem a bit thin on mine.

Thought I share in case that ends up helping anyone else out!

Ah hmm that's a good point. I'm actually not sure if it even has washers Pretty sure it doesn't, but I'm also super nervous about having the screwdriver slip and hitting the playfield (yikes!). Good point though.

It really gets out of whack quickly when the ball hits it, that's definitely certain. Trying to find something I can use until I get the foam pads just so I can play it whilst I wait.

They look maybe slightly bent forward but just slightly. I looked at the foam and while I'll go ahead and replace it, it's not quite as bad as I thought. As a temporary fix, if I wanted to bend them forward a bit, I assume I bend the back metal stop behind the target? Should I do that any special way other than taking the glass off and just man-handling it?

Ah well it used to drain after hitting the trails, but after I tweaked it a bit, it just kinda flies about and is usually recoverable. I wonder if I just double up on foam if that might help?

Oooh good idea! I didn't think to check it and I bet it may need adjusting. The big problem with the spiral is that the ball can hit the return habitrail post when the spiral moves a bit. I need to adjust the other one to move it inward a bit - I just need to find a longer screwdriver than the one I have to get to that screw. So when the ball hits the habitrail after hitting the target, it will move the spiral towards that post.

At least that is what seems to be happening. When it's well dialed in, the ball absolutely flies up to the back no problem.

Digging up this old thread a bit just as an update. I bought new pads for the targets and it makes quite a bit of difference! So I don't think it's misaligning things at this point, and I have tightened all that down.

But now I've noticed after removing the right ramp (to wax and replace LEDs) that the spiral habitrail rattles against the ball return and sometimes even the glass. But I don't know how to adjust for that? Any tricks on how to fix that? I don't want to risk damaging the playfield or the trails by trying to bend them about at least without removing them. I was thinking about adding padding, but then it would look ugly

Any tips and tricks there?

Figured it out...it's counter-intuitive to me, but pulling the exit of the spiral towards inward (to the left) and tightening things down seems to have helped /considerably/. Just thought I'd share in case anyone was having the same problem.

Seems getting the habitrails right on this thing is a bit of a black art

Haha oh wow flying OVER the flippers is a pretty insane airball! Holy crap.