I had to bend my flap down a bit so it wouldnt stick.

one tweak i noticed on a few taxi's is bending the wireform open more where it feeds the ball to the inlane.. it keeps momentum and can be much faster.

i'll try and get some pics.

Cliffy has protectors.. and you can put some mylar down.

I think it's just to quickly feed it down to that kicker. it doesn't seem like it's really necessary. I tore my spinout all apart and bent it so it was just high enough so the ball being kicked into the cab lanes wasn't going to catch it.

you can try adjusting the shooter rod to hit the side of the ball, this will put some English on it that will pull the ball around the spin out cup.

check your roms?

Playfield swap, I didn't think my old one was that bad till it was next to a new cpr 36767.jpeg

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Original cabs are screened, they do make new decals tho..

There's nothing like a new glassy playfield... it's not a cheap upgrade, but I did it.

Anyone try lightning flippers on taxi?

I just like short games. Did them on Sorcerer and think that's the only way to play. Also have them on the lower flippers on Whirlwind and enjoy that as well.

If anyone has done it or does it before i get around to trying it, please post the result.. i worry about the left ramp shot with lightning.

Tape if you get the metal bottom.

No flashers stay lit. Use led ocd! There's a mod to the aux power so led flashers don't blink with flippers

Are you missing these springs?
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Hardest shot for me is the crossover. Happens all the time on fish tales.. Only once on my taxi.

There's more rules in Flintstones, but we all know taxi is king.

I would just wire in regular bulb sockets to the topper. The spinout light board, if it's not that broken, epoxy back together and wire jumpers over the broken traces.

you probably just wanted the jackpot too bad and Taxi doesn't like to give it up that easy.

Any tricks out there for adjusting the shooter? I had mine working great, but haven't gotten it going right since a playfield swap.. I had a good thing going with the shooter hitting the left side of the ball, but it just doesn't seem to work consistently anymore.

Can't say I didn't see that coming

Congrats! Yo taxi. What's your top score on a high end taxi?

I had a diner. It's good.. taxi is still here.

looks like a switch holder. maybe for a roll over lane? i think that era used metal brackets tho.

It's been a while since I did mine. Pretty sure you have to do some changes to the aux power board.

Just so someone doesn't read this on its own. You need to add diodes on the coils otherwise you'll risk damaging something or at least blowing a fuse.

I've never heard that call out, mine was originally Lola.. are there updated sound roms?

Easter gift to Taxi lovers:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/new-taxi-custom-competition-rom#post-3059658

Marilyn remains unnamed

Nice work btw!

Wow, that's serious dedication to Taxi!

Depends how great the condition is.

No way to tell at that res. I would expect everything nearly flawless for 3k. At least an A+ condition or CPR playfield. Cab looks like it might be roughed up a bit.

I would value Lola higher myself..

I have a rotten dog LED display that did that (I got it as a refurb so maybe they had a mix-up in an early revision), the meter/jackpot is driven by the extra alphanumeric bits on the lower display. If it's wired to one side it only shows the jackpot, the other side has the animated meter and jackpot after spelling cab (side note: I think there's a system 11 that uses two numeric displays which would use both sides of the extra bits in the lower display ). I can take pics of the fix if you like.

I think my Tron chasing schematic notes are long gone since I did it about 5 years ago.. here are pics of the mod, these jumpers run to u20.

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I just pulled up pics of the pinscore displays.. surface mounted chips. Bogus!

Gotta be a proto

Unlimited millions! It would be broken like police force as far as scoring.

Get a better tech. The board issue could be a little bit to chase down if it's in the logic, but most likely a shorted transistor. A long as there's not corrosion on your board it's pretty straight forward to fix.

Anyone do color rubber? Post some pics? I'm thinking about going mostly blue with yellow posts.

If you're running an led display, I had one that was wired wrong. You'd have to do a decent hack to fix it.

You can make the jackpot accumulate quickly so it's whatever you set the max value most every time.

Yeah but you can essentially make the jackpot the same value evey time you get it.

I'm running rottendog LED.. Plasma is best for alphanumeric pins IMO. I actually like the look of an LCD colorDMD (even without the colors) over plasma.

soren released a taxi ROM. I would run that if i was looking for the latest and greatest.