Thanks!

Mine is doing the same thing, do I need to completly remove the center drop targets to do this? I cant seem to see anything wrong with it while installed.

Well a good place to start would be to go in the switch test and see if it actually registers when the target drops. If you see that it's always registering your problem is that the gap in the leaf switch is too narrow.
If it never registers it could be that the gap is too wide or dirty - to double check you could just jumper the two wires together and see if that does the trick. If not, the problem is upstream somewhere.

As for if you have to remove it to do these checks, I'm not sure, I don't have the machine with me. I'd think you don't but, just raise the PF and see what you can access. It's easy to remove if you do have to do it.

Thanks for the info. Mine never registers, ill try and get a better look at that switch.

Obviously a newb question but does anyone have a suggested method for switching out one of the lamps under the drop target? I was able to remove with crazy dexterity but going back the other way is proving nearly impossible by hand while installed. Prefer not to remove the assembly, not a professional...

Have you tried using a long nose pliers? I find it helps in a lot of locations. Someone sells a special bulb extractor (can't remember who) pliers with paddle like blades that would work too I'll bet.

Finally got to Crypt Jam for my first time since owning the game, a little over a year ago. Got a good score of 501,970,350 but not enough for my top records in game without getting Crypt Jam. I believe the goal Crypt Jam bonus I got was 85,000,000. Just curious as the balls were flying around I glanced up on screen and saw cyrpt keeper saying crypt jam with score but only noticed the background sound to be very weak. Is thus correct as the song was not like the album with his lyrics. Just curious or if anyone had video so I can see what happened now that I finally done it so it's ok for me to view. Just had a feeling I was going to do something special on my first game today.

Congrats on getting CJ, that is really hard to accomplish--still trying and have not yet gotten even close...

What I found...

Looser tilt will help you a lot so you can save the middle drains and kick the ball out of the side drains.

If you have a cliffy protector on the scoop, remove it. It tends to make the shot harder.

On my machine, the right orbit second switch was not working well so it made it harder to light up the Creature Feature. I replaced the switch.

I was thinking this might be the case on my machine. The creature feature hole is so tight. On all my other machines I've dialed in most of the shots but can't get this one consistently for the life of me.

You and me both, and that makes the chances of getting to CJ almost impossible... Anyone have any tips on making this shot consistently?

Try hitting it from bottom right flipper more as if worked for me when I just recently got there.

That's how I usually get it. Unfortunately it seem that the geometry of the table makes it impossible to hit it from a cradle on my machine. It's usually a rolling shot and it's tough to ensure consistent velocity and ends up being a flailing brickfest.

I was hoping you had a mystery shot that was easy to replicate--the bottom right flipper shot is a tough one to hit consistently. I watched the PAPA video and that is how it was done--but that guy (maybe Bowen?) is way better than I am...

I always have luck feeding the upper right flipper and taking the shot from there. The ramp is a good backboard for that shot IMHO.

Thanks, I'll give that a try. I've been experimenting with the best way to get the ball to the left flipper so I can try that shot more often.

I've made it to crypt jam a number of times on three ball, and for me it's all about being able to hit the orbits at will to light the next creature feature and then the upper right flipper shot. I'll still sometimes let the ball bounce from left flipper to right if center scoop is lit and I'm feeling good with my shots but hitting it from the bottom right flipper with the cliffy is a real low percentage shot and leads to some funky bounces and drains. The PAPA tutorial was hitting it consistently, from the bottom right but that was without the cliffy and the dude was flat good, he even made it from the bottom left which is a damn near impossible shot. To me, it's better off trying to hit the center spinner with the left flipper and have it feed the upper right flipper. Also the right orbit shot will often return it to upper right flipper. The times I've made it to crypt jam I've ignored everything else except for the orbits and the center scoop and tried for that. One of the most challenging games out there to me. Making them all is far tougher for me than getting lost in the zone on TZ.

Thanks for the advice, I'll work on it! And I agree, CJ is by far the tougher task than getting to Litz.

Link ? Or did it go in 15 minutes?

Just would love to watch that auction.

Regarding the door hand I think Matt over at Back Alley Creations is remaking them sometime soon.

That went yesterday evening. It was up almost 24 hrs with 5 offers (I was one) then someone did a bin @ the $350, I believe.

Hi All, does anybody have a scan of the apron cards they could send me? ,My cards are missing .thanks Tony

sorry if its already been asked.I didn't read through all 13 pages

I surely hope so BR owes me one or banker. Either way I hope it's done for this game no matter what.

I didn't know there were custom ones.eather or both if someone has them thanks .Tony

I bid on it... the guy got it for 275$ + sh.
Hopefully the person who bought it paid that crazy money to mold it and do a repro... I had guys at my office to it for me in a 3D model that looks pretty good - if I ever get to it with all my other projects I might try to 3D print it, but if someone comes out with a repro for a reasonable price (275$ + sh being unreasonable IMO), I'd much rather go for that...

If you'd be willing to send me the model, I'd let our objet30 take a stab at it. It would be printed in white, but would be a good way to see if it's a viable method. If I got really talented, I could try to match the color of mine as we'll by painting it...

Well, I'm away from home for 6 months, so I'm kinda putting that project off until then. By that time, if nobody came out with a repro yet I'll start by triple checking the model and all the measurements on my machine at home, and then get to doing a prototype.
I'll let you know by then if you're still into it...

I was looking for the apron cards.does anyone have, (or is willing to) scan them? and send me the files .it would be much appreciated. thanks Tony

You can download them for free from PinZach. Or better yet, have him print them for you! You can find them on his site. See this thread...

http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/happy-to-print-and-mail-my-custom-cards-now

Thanks for the link much appreciated.

Sink hole lighting mod that I finished this weekend. Two led lights. The blue is always on, the red is synched up with the Creature Feature red insert. I added some side mirrors at the same time.

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looks cool...

That looks awesome!

That door handle that was up a few weeks ago is back up, for anyone who missed it last time. ebay.com link: itm

It's nice but not $350 nice.

Has anyone tried to make a chrome edition so far? Just set up mine yesterday again and thought it would fit quite nice with high gloss lockdownbar and siderails?

Put some Mirrored Blades on my TFTC this weekend. It really made the playfield pop with the LED's and all, really brightened things up. I would highly recommend this mod. This pin has an awesome light show!!

Pics? I've been debating about putting some on mine, but wasn't sure how'd they look. I think doing the black mirror blades would be awesome, but it doesn't seem like they're available for DE games; unless I'm missing something somewhere.

I'll post some tonight. I put blades on 3 other pins over the weekend, TZ, FH and T2 but TFTC was
the most dramatic. got a great deal on blades so I did 4 pins

Sweet, can't wait to see them! I was thinking mirror blades + black light mod would make it really pop. I still need to get around to building my custom topper as well. I only want to do a few mods to mine and not go too overboard.

Here's the pics with the mirrors, camera really won't do it justice, blurry without the flash

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Looks very cool--where did you get these?

Please tell!