Just picked this up, few things to work out. Skill shot was Terrible, red spring added and some adjustments now just about ok.
Need to look at the topper, all there but not lighting up and bell not working again all there.
Flippers need rebuilding but managed 5.3 mil earlier, cool game. Will be putting it next to fish tales eventually.

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Nothing better to do today but work on Taxi!
Fixed the bell, just had to file down the contacts as even though they were touching tight there was no connection, topper had bad lamps and used WPC flipper parts to make the flippers snappy and stronger. Managed to blow right flipper F5 fuse somehow, contacts were gapped good

All working great and my wife said it’s probably her favourite now so good result as she didn’t like Robocop so that’s on its way out now even though I liked it but I have recently sold her favourite game so it’s only fair.

Playing great now.

Funnily enough after I put WPC flipper parts on mine they went a bit weird then only the right stopped working, it was F5 fuse that went. I readjusted the EOS switches as well and all is good.

I have installed quite a few of these OCD and Afterglow boards and I can tell you without even installing it that you will see a nice on/off fading led which gives a better overall effect.
I will not install LED’s into inserts without one, I’m just putting warm white leds in the GI on mine and leaving incandescents in the inserts for now as I know it will annoy me and not look right to me anyway.
Some people don’t mind the instant on and off though with LED’s, wish I was one of them lol

I don’t know but I first got Afterglow through Vimtoman then Stumblor was doing them, I think Stumblor is still going to sell them but do not know when or which version but they were going to be easier to build. Still testing I’m guessing.

Just finished kind of restoring the playfield etc as it was horrible. Removed all art on inserts and polished, cutting compound on the playfield then magic eraser to remove the rest if the ball marks. Then fitted a playfield insert kit and protector. Plus other stuff but it’s gone from an ugly duckling to a Marilyn!
Playing really nice now.
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Thanks.
I thought you were supposed to put a cocktail stick or something in the hole then rest the flipper on it, but have also heard what you are saying.
If I lower the flipper the cradle angle will be very low, I put WPC flipper rebuild kits on. Left one has moved up a bit even though I roughed it up.
Only annoying thing is flipper hop from the inlanes, left is worse and not sure how to stop that as no adjustment.

Thanks for the info, I will take some footage and post it here this weekend. Very annoying as it makes it very hard to keep hitting the ramps which when I do is very satisfying. I’m surprised how much I like this game, the look of it never appealed to me. I love it and so does my wife

I bent the return lanes forward a bit and has fixed it, they were leaning back slightly.

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They are from MOP and they do look a bit washed out and I’m using incandescents, it’s good enough and a massive improvement with what it was.
Also the kit is missing one special W/L outlane decal and they just don't care, I just fitted a spare ‘taxi’ on my left outlane.

I didn’t want to fit a hardtop due to them coming away for some people and I recently bought FT playfield from CPR which I’m not overly happy with so went the cheap fast what can go wrong route of decals and protector, couldn’t be happier considering everything!

Maybe you need to clean it up so it contacts better?

I just fitted a playfield decal set and put a playfield protector on mine and it was in a really bad way with a hole in the Gorby insert too!
Set was from Ministry of Pinball, you can probably get a set closer to home.
Looks pretty good now.

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I’m not a Lola type of guy lol
There was one SPECIAL W/L outlane decal not in the set and I did tell them but seems they don’t care and if you look at the pics on MOP you will notice it is missing!
I just put a spare TAXI decal on my left outlane.

I polished my inserts after scraping them to clear off crap then polished them up, also used magic eraser, cutting and polishing compound which removed 95% of the horrible ball marks and lines from the playfield.
I fitted the decals with the wet method and had a floodlight underneath so I could line them up perfectly, was really easy and quick.

Yes it will have what you need to swop to Marilyn, I have the Lola ‘trans-lite’ as the previous owner replaced it with that as it was all he could get at the time I think. Will change it back one day.

No problem, sent you a message.

I fitted premium 2 warm whites from that UK pin led website, the fluted looking one. They are (2smd) non ghosting which you don’t need but only available like that, they are a bit warmer than comet sunlights and look really good on my Taxi.

I prefer them over Comets which I have on others and they are like what CGC use on remakes.

Think they are out of stock, need to do another order myself.

Pinballinfo10 Discount code for 10%off, they look really good on Taxi.

Same here, been out of stock for a while I think.

Looks a bit warmer than the pic, if you look you can see a yellow glow from the flippers. That’s a comet warm white trough led strip which is nothing like the warm white premium 2 leds. Warm whites everywhere, the blue lane guides is giving it that blue look at the back.
Totally dark room.

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Yes centre is a bit dark but that’s in a pitch black room, I fitted custom lighting in my room so once that’s on and even dimmed right down it’s ok.
Only way to light that area otherwise is with spots, Comets would light less area when I look at my High Speed with Sunlights.

Pic with room lights on dim, phone takes a better pic. The pic with lights off doesn’t look quite right with phone.

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Yeah my ball gets stuck there too!
Will be raising mine again soon, I thought it was a bit low and raised it a touch but not enough.

That skill shot

I have bent the metal inlane rail forward to fix this on mine.

I fitted a flipper rebuild kit in mine a while back that were spare for my fish tales, much more snappy and powerful. I extended the springs a bit to reduce the power lol.

Looks like they go to one of the coin door slot micro switches.

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