Got a picture? My guess is something with the coil needs adjustment, as the ramp is rather straight forward to get back on.

Curious to see the answer to this as my STTNG sometimes shoots the ball short and doesn't lock at the top. I was going to replace the coil sleeve.

Is the problem that it comes out of the ramp but doesn't roll far enough to hit the drop target or go into the hole behind the drop target or that it rolls back down the ramp into the catapult launcher?

Can you launch it manually with ease? It does not have to get up by hand, but at least make sure that the ball is placed in the habitrail correctly and that the catapult is not touching stuff is isn't supposed to.

I don't think game ratings have anything to do with the problem you are having. Mine works fine every time. Good luck!

I actually moved mine into the basement and I believe the uneven floor upstairs was causing my issue. You might just want to try to level the game.

It's so high, because it's that good ... when setup right.

Think it's time to take some pic's and let's compare
Mine swooshes the ball into that spiralramp.

About the right-drain, it's all about a firm nudge to keep out of trouble there

Dude something is very wrong with your machine, never heard of one doing that left drain thing.

Post some pictures or video. Sounds like something's put together wrong to me.

Sttng. Some are massively outlane drainers and others are not nearly as bad. I have the pinbit's extended outlane kit on mine. And my friends is still better on the outlanes. I suggest getting that kit.

As for your issue with the lanch ramp, you should be able to put two balls into the shooter and and the game should be able to recover from this without the glass coming off.

I propose that we take game ratings to a more granular level. I say we rate each game individually, within each title, by serial number. So, whatever serial number joekiss has would be rated fairly low. Meanwhile o-din's game would be rated higher. This would allow us to identify "lemons" within a particular title.

Wouldn't that be great?

Being a drainer is one thing. He says it launched and went down the left outline without hitting the flippers five times in a row. That can't happen unless it's put together wrong.

As it should be.

By the way mine has black traditional rubbers on it so it really does play like it should.

Launch ball. It bounces around the pops and comes out the center area not by upper flipper, hits right sling, left outlane never a flip.

I was just looking at my ST:TNG and I seem to recall having a similar problem when I shopped mine out. You might want to check to make sure that the ramp that goes under the launch ramp isn't impeding the ball when it's launched. It can look like it's ok but it has to be just right under the launch ramp as they actually touch each other. I think with mine there was a small piece from the ramp that goes under the launch ramp that was sticking up and the ball would just touch that as it went by and would slow the ball down.

Take a look at the ramps where they come together and be sure the lower ramp is completely below the lauch ramp and that nothing from the lower ramp is sticking up into the path of the ball at launch.

Dave

That sounds wrong to me. Whether or not the ball exits the ramp and goes all the way to the back machine depends on the angle at which it exits the loop ramp. When I first got my machine I had to adjust the left/right spacing slightly,but since lining that up it works 100% of the time.

I wonder if you left a spacer or washer out when you reassembled it, at one of the two adjustment points? This should be a very simple adjustment, and believe me when this game is "dialed in" it is an excellent game so don't give up on it. I've attached photos showing the two adjustment points on the loop ramp, so that you can see how mine is assembled. Let me know if you need additional photos.

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Sorry. You will want to rotate the three photos. I didn't realize I had my iPad upside down when I took them.

Try again.

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I would start with loosing the right adjustment post (photo 1) and slightly moving the ramp left or right, and launch the ball. If it does not make it to the back reliably you should be able to tell where the ball is hitting and loosing momentum and adjust from there. Let me know how it goes.

I will go 2k on it, no questions asked. Great game.

Hope you didn't part out, it's just the adjustment on the launch ramp, mine drove me nuts until I realized when the catapult launched the ball it wasn't hitting the ramp on center. The ball would wobble in the round part of the ramp, and loose it's momentum.
Has to hit the hole dead center.

Dibs on the transformer and all the circuit boards

My launch ramp just started rattling against the glass when the ball launches. This is strange as I wasn't working on anything around it. It seems that at the top of the loop now occasionally touches the glass on ball launch. Any idea of the best way to adjust this, because I tried to move the mid ramp adjustment point in and out and it has no effect. Could the bracket that connects it have gotten bent?
Thanks for any help.

Did you ever resolve this? I stripped a STTNG and now the same thing is happening. Glass touches the launch ramp and it makes an awful rattling noise on ball launch.