I just picked up a T2 with a bunch of minor issues and have most of them sorted. But, I have a somewhat embarrassing question. The knocker is not working and I am unable to identify the solenoid/assembly. It might be missing or I might just be an idiot. It was not at all clear from the manual were this is located. A picture or description of where this is located would be greatly appreciated.

Ok, I'm sort of an idiot! Once malenko sent his picture I knew were it should go. But, mine is missing - I guess I'll need to use eyeamred2u's technique until I get a new assembly. Then, I went to check the manual and sure enough there it was called out in the upper right hand corner of the backbox - duhh.

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I'm having a small issue with my T2 in multiball. About every 25~50 games or so I'm getting two balls stuck in the skull at one time. It seems like this is happening if I shoot two balls very close in time into the skull. It is almost like the drop target is not resetting quick enough but it definitely resets. Indeed, this is how the two balls get stuck. I've also made sure that I have the gate in the skull and that it seems to work ok. Thoughts?

My skull came with a piece of foam but maybe it isn't big enough. I'll take it out and measure it.

Well, I checked the foam and it seems to be ok. I then tried manually shooting two balls at one time into the skull and sure enough both went in, the target came up and then they both were stuck. I'm attaching a photo of the skull area. All of the pieces seem to be there and in the correct location but the manual isn't super clear on what pieces go where.

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Going back and looking at pictures of the skull posted a couple of pages back I see one issue with my machine. The plastic on the right hand side of the skull is broken at the mounting screw - you can see it in the photo. Thus, the plastics don't overlap. Does a good plastic help keep the ball from going to far back past the popper?

I highlighted where the two balls get stuck.

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That's pretty much what happens. But, the second ball is behind and somewhat sitting on top of the ball that is in the saucer. When the game goes into ball search it tries to kick the ball in the VUK but it sometimes jams on the second ball at which point I need to shut the game down and manually get the two balls out - which is a giant PITA.

It turns out that I had already ordered a new set of plastics which are going to arrive soon. Hopefully that will fix the issue.

From the photos I've seen in this forum I can't determine how far the right plastic protrudes into the area behind the saucer. But, something sheered my plastic. I'm hoping that if the area behind the saucer is reduced, it will help this problem but that is just a hope.

As far as I can tell, the target is working fine. If anything, I'd worry about it taking to long to go back up after the first ball gets locked. But, I'm not sure how I'd test that.

Ahh, I think I found my problem. The VUK does not have the ball popper cap #03-8053! I'm guessing the first ball falls into the hole thus allowing the second ball to crowd in. In addition, the VUK coil is an AE-26-1200 as opposed to the AE-23-800 that the manual calls for. Not that this is causing my problem but it is still one more poorly shopped component in this machine. It came with several incorrect coils, a missing knocker assembly and numerous dodgy wiring hacks.

I got the ball popper cap and corresponding dowel. A quick question: does the dowel just friction fit into the small hole near the tip of the plunger/armature? It seemed to be really tight and I was worried that I was missing something so I backed off. Thanks.

I've had similar issues to #1. My game came with the foam block that was supposed to prevent issue #1. It turns out my game had a couple of issues. One, it was missing the kick up saucer, thus allowing the first ball to drop down into the VUK. It was also missing the switch that detects whether the drop target is down.

After fixing both of those problems, the number of times I get two balls in the skull during multiball have gone way down. But, it still happens. For whatever reason, sometimes it seems as though the game has a delay between the time I load the skull and the time it raises the target. Sometime there is no delay, other times it seems around a second or so. The times where there is a delay seems to be right at the start of multiball. The VUK switch seems fine so I don't really know what else the problem it could be. Maybe software? I'm running a L3 rom.

I'm in the process of doing a playfield swap and I'm looking to replace my somewhat broken and chipped skull. Any recommendations as to which reproduction to go with? I've searched through the forum and it looks like the answer has changed over the years. Also, are there opinions on this skull:

https://pinside.com/pinball/market/shops/1253-dystopic-pinball/05222-t800-terminator-2-v2

It looks nice but the price gives me a bit of a pause.

I'm currently in the process of doing a swap using a Buthamburg PF I purchased several years ago. I have the pindoc rotisserie and while it's built like a tank, placing it on a standard height table means one has to stand up to work on a flat playfield. One can of course tilt it but that makes attaching hardware a bit of a pain. I'm currently in the process of reattaching all of the underside mechs and lighting and for that I just have it on a couple of saw horses. What I'd like to find is a shorter table to put the rotisserie on.

As part of my PF swap I'm rebuilding my flippers. Based on the photos I saw a few posts ago, it looks like the coils are supposed to have diodes. Mine do not - even though the coils look to be original. So which is it, diodes or no diodes?

What rings are folks using on these two posts? 3/4" seems too big. I tried 7/16" from Titan and they are both skinnier than the other rings and seem a bit tight.

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