Back in the club, picked it up yesterday for £500/$700!!! Missing legs and back glass/translite.
Everything else there, cab and playfield good. Few glitches but got it all running in the end, need to strip it down and fit new ramps etc
Great to play this again and some nice new mods I see.
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The guy I bought it from put my faith back in the human race, it was in a shop that they had taken over. He knew what they sell for but excepted my offer 2 mins into the auction on eBay. I was expecting the worst if I’m honest but turned out well. He was offered more money after the auction but stuck with me.
We realised why it was left in the shop when they tried to get it out the door from a small side room in the shop, the door was not wide enough
So we went about taking down the stud type wall down and moved the door frame over, it was all done in laughter as they wanted to change that area anyway.

It’s getting a U6 checksum error so will get a new rom, tried reseating it but no joy.
It really plays nice and snappy.

Parts don’t seem expensive buying for this one

You could try the slightly slimmer flipper rubbers, by Titan I think. That would help.

I use traditional rubbers too.
I recently bought new lane guides from Cliffy for 3 of my machines due to the hop, maybe he does these too?
You could adjust like above but I found it can go back over time. Easy enough to redo if it does.

Cliffy makes them, I have bought a few sets from him. They are slightly wider lane guides to compensate for the flipper rubber sticking out and making the ball hop as it rolls down from the guide onto the flipper.

I put lane extenders in the last one I had but side drains was still a bitch, was actually thinking of adding mini posts with rubbers which is what I put on my operation thunder as that had crazy side drains too and made the game much more enjoyable. Not having rubber on those outlanes is a killer.

Happy birthday, drink beer play pinball

Was doing the same thing with my wife last night but with no kids here for a change!
Just watching England trying to bowl out NZ, catch just not given out

Lasers, nice. Was thinking about getting them.

Very nice, reminds me of the Amiga demo days. Imagine that on lsd

Was having trouble with my trough, one of the opto’s was activated when it shouldn’t have been, turns out one of the transmitters was faulty. The receiver picked up infrared from the sun and made life easy.
Have stripped the playfield for a clean up and have flame polished the ramps, adding protectors. Stripped the canons as they were corroded and tumbled them, came out pretty good. Waiting for new looms to arrive. Taking my time on this.
Should have a custom proper back glass arriving this week, bought machine without one and never really liked the original so was a good time to get one I liked.

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Pinball Heaven in the UK make them with a lifetime guarantee if installed as per their instructions, waiting for mine to arrive so not sure what cables are used.

My new back glass arrived today, bought the machine with no translite or glass. Never liked the original translite so was a good opportunity to fit a proper back glass and new design which looks great, to me anyway. Goes full width so no trim needed on the sides.

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I loved my old Siemens mobiles, was either throw them all away or hot glue them to the wall in the garage lol

I had Pinsound plus and speakers in my last STTNG and I never thought the sound quality was good enough, I have had a few others with Pinsound and they have sounded great. Tried all the sound packages and all the tone settings, speech was also too low. I often wondered if they sent me some duff sounding speakers.
Going to just add some speakers and maybe connect up to my pinnovators mixer running a 400w 15”sub

I’ve used lane extenders on a previous STTNG but found it only helped slightly, saw this the other day done by a well known parts seller here and thought that will work. Only downside would be the ball would disappear under the plastic a bit but you can’t really see that side anyway.

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I only here people moaning about those boards here, as soon as a new version comes out he releases another.
I had pinsound in my last STTNG but my latest one is staying standard and I’m happy with that.

Finally it’s all working, new cannon looms were fitted as had breaks but turns out I had an opto problem as well. Fitted a pair of new opto’s in the left cannon and now it’s all working great, very fast and smooth. Was worth all the effort of stripping down. Just need to stick on the new side rails.

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I have an issue with both right flippers, on hold/up I can push them down too easily. A fast ball can push it down a bit then it fires back up or it drops halfway ish maybe, the left flipper is good and cannot be push back easily. Holds strong. It did this before I rebuilt the flippers and thought that would fix but it hasn’t, eos switches gapped good and clean. Flippers mechs as they should be, flipper opto’s cleaned. It’s both right flippers so guessing it’s not the actual flippers but down the line somewhere, I have pulled related connections off and on.
Any ideas as this is the last fault, still plays great until a fast ball hits hard especially in multi ball.
Thanks.

No, only the GI connector is different. Probably had got hot previously and replaced. All look good.
Somebody had the same issue on a search and they changed both coils which cured it, coils rarely go wrong. Worth putting another coil in I guess. Maybe even a new ribbon cable as that gave me week flippers on my TZ.

Just to add to my flipper hold issue. In test the left flipper power and hold is good but the right flippers only power works in test not hold for both.

Yes that is what I have with the readings you have given me, it’s been driving me mad and makes sense with the high hold resistance!
Thanks for your advice and taking time out, this is an easy solution that makes total sense. I have read so many people with the same issue and now I know why. I will replace them and report back.
Thank you.

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I fitted these not long ago, the Alpha’s just bolt to the front posts then I made new holes at the back on the ramp and added double sided tape. Pretty straight forward, added double sided tape to other ramps too. Ship is in the way to take a pic, did try.

Had a FL-11629 coil spare so fitted it to the lower right flipper and the hold is now good, upper right is still making shots ok but will probably change that too with my next order for parts as it will give it a bit more strength at the end.
Thanks for the tip.

Finally finished shopping mine, bought it a couple of months ago off eBay really cheap. Flame polished ramps and added protectors, look new now. Stripped cannons down and tumbled them and fitted new looms. Cleaned subway and opto’s. New posts, rubbers, cleaned and waxed playfield. All metal tumbled or hand polished. Added LED’s and Afterglow board which is like ledocd. New side rails and glass runners, new low reflective glass, original cab was good so left. New black legs. All boards good. Added custom proper back glass.
This one plays much better than my last one and looks great. Very happy with it

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I put one in my last one and my others have them fitted but to be honest I think I will be leaving the old plasma one in for a while and see how it goes, they cost £420 or $585 US around here these days! Yeah they are pretty nice though.

I fitted pinsound in my old one too but I only paid £500 for this pin so I just can’t do it lol
Think I might connect it up to my 15” sub that some of my other pins share though.

Yes that’s the other option I was thinking about, I fitted one in a WCS and did the job nicely.

Yes black, just fitted a new set of black legs to mine. Although metallic black would look even better.

One of the games that really benefits from LEDOCD or what I have Aftergow board, most WPC games with leds look wrong without them to me.

Totally agree, not good pissing on peoples fire.

It’s good to be nice, I hate negativity it just puts a downer on things. Best just to think it sometimes, not everyone is thick skinned.

I’m waiting for an extra large pin2dmd and custom speaker panel for my STTNG
Blast away

Davey is making the kits from pinfo, only thing not so good is it has to use 3” speakers due to the screen size but I’m just going to add an 8” sub with filter and level control so should sound ok. Should look pretty good on this pin.

I will be fitting the large pin2dmd to my STTNG soon hopefully, a 64 colour update would be very cool for that but great that you did this pin.
Looking forward to seeing your work as the last one I had I fitted an lcd colordmd.

Could it be sticking in that circular groove it has created?

Just received this today, 256x64 HD screen with custom speaker panel. Waiting on a power supply before I fit to make sure it’s got enough juice as I think the pin will complain.

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I like keeping things mainly original too but this speaker panel looked really good and the real backglass is a big improvement to me as I really didn’t like the original.
I’m the first person to get the STTNG panel, no hi res unfortunately so it will be upscaled. Watch this space as I will put a video up when it’s running, also got an 8” sub to fit in the cab to help reinforce the sound but apparently those little speakers sound good.

I’m sure it will be great mate, appreciate people like you doing these. Will be in touch once it’s all running so you can have a drink on me

I managed to get one earlier this year for £500 or $675 that was on eBay, I put an offer in the minute it was on there and got lucky. It was a nice one too.
Never say never!

Fitted my XL HD pin2dmd screen and custom speaker panel yesterday, looks amazing in the flesh. Video does not do it justice unfortunately.
I fitted a 12v 10amp power supply to run it, needs about 5amp.
Thanks to stumblor who sells the kits and slippifishi for the colourisation.
Action from about 5:45 on.

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Oh crap it is, oops. Yes stumblor.

Sorry it’s stumblor.

Wired a 12v 10amp power supply to the incoming switch wires in the metal box, just stripped them back a bit and soldered on them taped up.
Hard wired no service outlet as it was just blanked off so put the cable through the blanking plate.

Only used for the XL pin2dmd display but someone else can add mods in the future if they like easily.
Was going to add LED’s underneath/behind the cab but fitted them around the door of my pin room instead.
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That shows each opto is unblocked/no ball. Go to one opto at a time and put your finger or something between the emitter/receiver, in test the square should disappear from the grid relating to that one. Try the cannons first and you will see how it works, if it doesn’t see any there is an issue. Check all the shaded in switches (opto’s) on the pic of the switch matrix which you put a few posts above.

I thought it was the loom on one of my cannons but it was a faulty opto, I recently stripped my playfield and cannons right down to parts and tumbled them and put in new cannon looms in while I was there. Intermittent opto on one cannon but the other it was a broken wire on the loom.
So while I thought it was the loom as the opto seemed to test ok it was actually the opto with intermittent fault.

If it has a credit dot,check what it is for.
Check drop down target at back works ok and ask if it has had the tie back mod which could cause damage if not done. Not hard to do if not.
Go in settings and remove balls then turn off. Put balls back in and turn on, should load balls in trough and stage 3 balls to vuk’s without issue.
Check cannons work ok in game.
Plus the usual stuff, ramps get cracked and not cheap to replace and GI connectors get burnt including the one under the playfield for the shields as just had to change mine (brown/white & brown wires 3 way connector)
Good luck.

I know I nearly ordered a set, I flame polished mine and fitted mantis protectors and saved quite a bit and they look new now.
Better the money in my pocket.

Theme I guess, I’m not a fan. But for a totally loaded machine with actors call-outs I just don’t know as it’s a pretty good game.
I hate the back glass so bought a custom one and fitted a XL Color led screen which looks awseome on this pin.
They do go wrong and can confuse people so this might also be the reason but once you understand how it all works it’s not too bad.

Well I’m in my early 50’s and not into the theme at all, never watched it as I was working too hard when it was out. Tried watching but not my thing.
I had pin sound in my last STTNG and was never really happy with it, just didn’t sound right to me and call outs too quite. I did have it in my IJ and really liked it in that one, same as a few others I’ve had.

I like the sound as is on this one, other people love pinsound on this though.

My STTNG

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It was better sound quality but on mine I just couldn’t dial it in to my liking, I’m fussy with sound and wether it was the pinsound speakers or board it just wasn’t crisp enough for me, the sub was ok though. It did annoy me as all the others I had sounded great.

Best way to be and with the XL screen it’s even better!

Maybe the diverter in the subway is playing up, remove all balls then turn the power off. Put all the balls back in and power up and it should feed the trough then stage 3 balls for the 2 cannons and the vuk that feeds left flipper from wire ramp.

Great, bet you feel really good about that!

To be honest it’s good to get to know your pin early on and understand how things work and the consequences of things that are not right.
Sometimes it can be a blessing in disguise when you get a problem or two if you are confident getting stuck in.
Now enjoy the game

Think I have LX-7 on mine.