Just joined the club in December, and I’ve finally gotten through (almost) this whole thread. I piggybacked on ABE_FLIPS and cabal designs for the airball saver on the right ramp, and cut this out of a regular old piece of polycarbonate from lowes. Added spacers on either side of the ramp entrance, and the thinnest post sleeves I could find from Marco. The ramp is still tough, as is the whole game, but this made a drastic improvement.

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Wasn’t planning on selling them but I suppose if they were wanted I could make more. PM if interested.

I’ve had the issue a couple of times, and it’s never been magnetized balls. I put it in switch test mode and drop a ball in the shooter lane a dozen times and take a slo-mo video. It’s been the ball careening off the walls of the shooter lane because the forks weren’t exactly even.
I also had issues with the “skill shot” switch (which confirms turtle select on launch) and that was due to airballs jumping the switch. Just adjusted the forks and the switch again yesterday and fired 40 test balls in switch test, it’s working great again.

Hey guys, I posted this in the tech forum but haven’t gotten any responses yet… surely someone else has had this problem? Glider shooting all the way to the left in attract mode and burning up the servo:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/tmnt-glider-issue-a-new-one-1

I should have specified: I replaced it with hitec HS-645MG that I reversed the direction on. So this is the upgraded servo doing this.

I’ll give you TEN (10) United States doll hairs for the source files!

I noticed this too. I think it just increased it by a few slices (5?) so if you get the pizza eating contest early you may not get quite enough. Obviously this game was far too easy, so it makes sense to make it a little tougher. /sarc

Thanks for this. Highly bizarre that the solution is simply “don’t run glider diagnostics,” but it’s been working fine for a week now. I haven’t run diagnostics once, and haven’t had a problem.

Hopefully this helps someone, and I apologize for not having taken any pictures...

I've had glider issues since I bought my TMNT Premium. My first servo burned out completely because the glider had jumped over the left habitrail and gotten stuck, and the servo was sitting there trying to pull it back.

I followed the replacement instructions and put in an HS-645MG, going the hard way with resoldering inside the servo to change polarity. That replacement servo lasted two weeks and quit, and I said to hell with it for a few months, just disconnected the glider and played on.
Well, when the later instructions came out from marineman with a video by brzezicki I finally decided to give it another shot, this time with the servo reverser.

I installed the new servo and it worked, with a big exception: the glider was so loose in it's base that the droopy back end was snagging on the screw in the center, as well as the right habitrail (which is probably what burned out the new servo). I've seen some posts mentioning the droopiness of the glider, and everyone just says they "tightened it up." In my case, there was nothing to tighten up. the hole in the plastic was physically smaller than the copper sleeve going through it, causing the glider to be ridiculously loose. I tried a washer on top of the mounting bracket, but that just led to it being higher, still loose, and jumping over the outer wall of the habitrail.

The SOLUTION ended up being a coil sleeve. I cut a piece of coil sleeve and sanded it down to the exact length of the thinner portion of the copper bushing that the glider sits in. The thin end of the coil sleeve fit into the plastic around the bushing, and the wide end of the coil sleeve is perfectly flush with the bottom of the bushing, and held on by the metal servo arm. No more slop in the glider at all, and hopefully that means this new servo will last! If I take the glider assembly off in the future, I'll snap some pictures. I hope this helps someone.

Did you get to cowabunga?

Take a slo mo video of the shooter lane during auto plunge. For me this was an issue of the ball rattling back and forth in the shooter lane and losing momentum. Bending the auto plunge forks to hit the ball squarely fixed the issue and I haven’t had a problem in 9 months or so.