Well the club lost a member but also gained a member at the same time. I was fortunate enough to be the one who purchased it from @transprtr4u. What an amazingly well taken care of machine!! Looks brand spanking new and was on my wishlist.

The wife and I look forward to many years of yelling at this machine in frustration. Lol

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PS - Can anyone direct me to where I can get the finger mods?

Pm sent.

Also....anybody know where I can get the flipper fingers? Not the boney ones....but the colored ones that look like the crypt Keepers nasty lookin fingers

I'm still looking for this flipper mod. I reached out to a few pinsiders and they referred me to eBay. (I can't seem to find any on eBay either)

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

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You don't know his username by chance?

trade only? not interested in cash?

Now that I have my TFTC finally dialed in......here are a few pics
This pin is such a masterpiece!

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Only added three.....one for each ramp and the scoop. They look real disgusting when they are flashing or lit

"Eye" don't mind

eBay....lotsa cool Halloween stuff on sale now

It's hollow plastic....that's why the original pinball is in behind it. Otherwise it would never hit the switch.....being too soft & light.

The missus just got this high score yesterday (she was warming up before we headed out to Pinball League night)

She doubled my personal best +40 million!!!!

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How do you activate & enable the knocker on TFTC? Is it in the diagnostics?

Would anyone be kind enough to to take a picture of their functioning TFTC knocker please?

I need to install mine...

Disregard....someone said they will PM me one.

That sucks!! Hopefully something will pop up again

Well, it's official...the wife knocked me off the high score board. She owns all 6 initialized high scores & she's not showing any sign of letting up either. She regularly gets 500+ million games....when my personal best is 401 million. She is seriously destroying me at TFTC & I need to up the ante to give her some real competition.

So with that said....I'm looking for any suggestions regarding a strategy that some of you TFTC owners may utilize.

Do you try to hit crypt mode's in a particular order? (extra ball 1st, electric chair 2nd, etc?)
Do you aim for drop targets to hit the x8 on each ball?
Do you try to get multi-ball enabled every chance you get?

Anything.....any tips/suggestions at all would be appreciated!! She needs to be taken down a peg or two

Be sure to work the super VUK in the upper right hand corner to see if it operates as it should. It gets beat to crap and abused quite a bit on this pin. It may require a rebuild (which is cheap), but worth checking out.

That looks pretty sweet. Simple and easy solution

You have an extra one you'd sell? I'd install that on my TFTC in a heartbeat.

Awesome Jake!! Thanks and happy thanksgiving!!

Anyone try replacing the two rubber rings behind the guillotine drop targets with a flipper rubber?

I had two rubber rings there and one snapped....causing the ball to get stuck. Ended up replacing the two rings with one flipper ring.

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I never noticed the metal wire missing on mine. Shucks....good eye!

They look great!! PM'd you with my Canadian shipping information.

No problems here. The ball runs along the side rail....through the spinner and onto the upper right flipper. Never leaving the rail. Could the right orbit spinner be causing the ball the come off the rail?

Yea, good suggestion on the VUK wireform GRB1959 .....that didn't even cross my mind.

So there's no way to keep that light in between the plastics if you install the air-ball guard? There's no room whatsoever?

Not a big deal really....a small sacrifice to get rid of air balls.

I had a problem with trough switches. Ended up replacing one and when I took it out it also crumbled apart in my hands.

Must be a DE thing ?

Question about the crypt kicker....

When you start a new game and get a ball....does your crypt kicker lightup right away?

The wife claims that the crypt kicker light used to be activated the second you started a new game or began your next ball.

Now....after 5-10 seconds of the ball being launched...the crypt kicker light would turn on.

Is this normal?

I meant the crypt kicker that saves your ball on the left outlane.

**edit: Boat beat me by 32 seconds....

I haven't reset to factory settings in a long time so it can't be that. Let me know what happens when you play a few games. If anyone else can chime in with their results it would be appreciated.

The only reason I can see the light not being activated right away is because of the possibility of a freeze. Once the chance of a freeze is gone...the crypt kicker light would be activated. (Because who would want to waste the crypt kicker outlane save when you could have just gotten a freeze ball with a left outlane drain?)

Well thanks for confirming the crypt kicker light for me.

I do recall fiddling with the adjustments at first when I got the machine. I will take a gander sometime this afternoon.

Thanks Gord

Well my difficulty settings are set to moderate. So I'm unsure as to why my crypt kicker light isn't activated right away when a new game or ball begins.

The left outlane switch works. The laser kicker works.

I'm really at a loss as to why this is happening

Thanks Gord. I changed the difficulty levels and they all result in the same outcome. The crypt kicker light won't activate until 10+ seconds after the ball has been shot into the playfield.

Additionally, I hand fed the ball into the left outlane at the beginning of a ball and it resulted into two freezes. Upon the third attempt, it resulted in a drain. The crypt kicker light never even came on.

I'm really at a loss here....any suggestions are welcome.

Have a great weekend everyone!

The diagnostic I ran the lamps/lights are good. The switch works and so does the laser kicker.

I lifted the playfield and checked if anything was loose or disconnected. The wiring looks fine.....everrything seems fine underneath.

I'll do a more thorough investigation once I finish my set of nightshifts this weekend....

Thanks for all the help Gord

Yes it does. I noticed that today while fiddling around
12hr later edit: after getting home from work I fiddled around some more & noticed that the left + right outlane inserts only light up after the pinball strikes 1 of the 6 KEEPER eyes (3 eyeball targets on each side of the playfield)
I tried this numerous times with the same results every time. No outlane insert lightup unless a KEEPER eye is struck

Added over 6 years ago: 24hr later edit. Did some more fiddling and the left + right outlines only light up when a KEEPER eye that ISN'T lit gets struck by the pinball.

If the KEEPER eye is already lit and gets struck....it won't activate the left + right outlane inserts for some reason.

This is really perplexing me

Sorry if I've been posting a lot lately....but I just got my air ball guard installed. Looks and works great so far!!

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All summed up into a video....

I'm not really sure how to do this exactly..... But could Q66 be the problem?

Thanks again for the help guys

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Thanks @ChadH....thats all I could find with my amateur eyes. I'll see if my tech guy can fix that.

PS - what's that Q66 tip called?

Sorry I meant product name. It's not a diode is it? Or a board tip?

I'm just trying to familiarize myself with the lingo as I go through repairs.....

You da man ChadH

Transistor tested fine. Looks like garbage and I plan on taking out the board and having a tech friend help me with the work later on....

Would anyone be kind enough to post a pic of the right sling switches from under their TFTC playfield? Specifically the wiring under the playfield for the right sling switches.

My right sling's lower switch (closest to the flippers) isn't working at all. It won't recognize during the switch test either.

It would be much appreciated because I suspect the wiring on my lower right sling switch is missing something. It would help me compare.....

Enclosed is a pic of what mine currently looks like.

Thank you guys & gals

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That's what I was thinking...

Hoping someone could post a pic of their TFTC for me so I can compare it...

Jakers + @grb1959...thanks for the replies and help gentlemen!

I've noticed that my (inactive) switch only has one prong (not counting the one sticking out on the side). And both of yours looks like it has two and then the additional one sticking out on the side.

I just want to confirm where the wire should be soldered.

Yellow = prong on the side

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Excellent...thank you @jakers! Here's better pics for you just in case....

But if that's the case I'll solder a wire according to the diagram you made in post #2633

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Thanks a bunch Jakers !!

Just to confirm what you meant by "unused prong" .... You don't mean the side one that needs bending do you? Because I was going to go on the picture where you drew the green line.

So the wire should be like the green line in the photo?
or...
It should be like the blue one?

Sorry for my numerous questions.....

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Thanks again Jakers !!

6th door is as far as I ever got

It's the mode called "door prize select" and you select doors to open on the DMD. Eventually you get a hangman behind a door and you return to your game on the playfield

Happy 2018 Crypt Keepers!!!

Would anyone be kind enough to snap me a picture of their knocker? (Specifically the wire setup and if there's a diode that is required?)

Thanks

Gord to the rescue again. Thanks so much!

Happy new years buddy!!

I have a color DMD also. It looks so smooth

That's happened to me only once. It made some miraculous jump from the right outlane as it drained back into play. Some funky music played.

Experienced it with the newer ChadH updated ROMS. Not sure if it occurred prior to that

I somehow managed to snag a full set of new CPR plastics online. They should arrive next week....lucky me

Just wondering if anyone can tell me what the circled (in red) plastic pieces are for?

- Sean

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Ok, that's good to know. Thanks Gord....again

edit: My current crypt keeper plastic (with his arms extended) is being used behind the tombstone. So when the tombstone goes up it gently pushes the crypt keeper up with it. It eventually falls back into place.

And when the ball enters the left ramp, it gently strikes the crypt keeper extended fingers. (It's just a neat effect that doesn't impede the ball whatsoever)

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When I got my TFTC it was already colorized. But it's very smooth and has no dots whatsoever. So I'm thinking it's an LCD...

Hey guys/gals,

Just wondering if anyone has had any issues with their EXTRA BALL/MULTIBALL not being activated when it enters the middle spinner. (The VUK works great and is registering when the ball lands on the cup)

Here's a description of my issue.....

1- the extra ball or multiball is lit
2- ball zips past the middle spinner and falls into the VUK
3- extra ball or multi ball won't register but the VUK recognizes the ball right away and spits it back onto the playfield.
4- extra ball or multiball will still stay lit

I'm assuming it's the switch from the middle spinner? Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.

Bend the VUK switch? I thought about that but the VUK detects the ball the minute it lands on the cup and spits it back onto the playfield.

If it's being detected in the VUK, shouldn't the extra ball/multiball be activated simultaneously?

Thanks

Or do you mean another switch?

I'm assuming it's a trough switch then. Thanks....I'll take a look later on and report back

Bingo!

Noticed the switch wasn't activating in the diagnostics test. I'm not sure the exact switch # as the playfield was up. But its the one circled in red in Gord's pic. I then noticed that the white/brownish wire wasn't connected to the switch. I soldered it back together and it's working again.

Thanks again...the wife will be happy to play all weekend now.

My plastic set arrived yesterday and I checked it over this afternoon.

I'm assuming they come with a protective film/paper on both sides that needs to be removed before installation?

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http://www.theplaydiumstore.com/category_s/2309.htm

It's a Canadian coin-op distributor. It was their last one. But they do have other rare plastic sets.

Gord to the rescue again Mine cost 175$ CAD....so they are pretty much the same price. Snap up that set of plastics ASAP!!

Thanks again Gord! I figured as much but asking questions never hurts

Good to know! Thanks for the tip Jenniebear

I know I've been posting a lot lately....but I just wanted to thank Jakers again for the air ball guard. That thing works great & there haven't been ANY air balls since installation a few weeks ago. Quite the dramatic change from before when the ball was catching some serious air.

Also....

The wife has a wicked habit of putting 3+ balls into the super VUK at the same time....causing it to have a real hard time spitting the balls back onto the playfield. I ask her how she is the only one who manages to be able to do this & her reply is "it's not my fault my shots are accurate."

If there's two balls the VUK can handle it....sometime three....sometimes. But anything more than three balls and it struggles.

I just want to know if this is an issue for others?

My personal best. It's still 200+ million short of the wife's best....but I'm getting closer. She will eventually be dethroned

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I posted a WTB ad on the marketplace but figured it didn't hurt to post it here as well.....

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/wtb-tales-from-the-crypt-playfield-nos

Looking for a NOS TFTC playfield. If you have one or know about a lead on one feel free to PM me. Cheers!

I just missed the boat (no pun intended) on that playfield.

I would like to have a NOS playfield for down the road. I don't see myself ever getting rid of my TFTC, so it'll be good to have a NOS playfield as a backup.

Just checked the audits on my TFTC. The wife & I have put 2300 games on it in 4 months. LOL

Like Lermods said, just buy some NVRAM and it's plug and play. Then you'll never need to worry about battery replacements or leakage ever again!

You should see the prices jump north of the border. I paid 3700$ USD (converted from Canadian) for mine. I was lucky as mine came with....

- alternate translite
- tons of extra parts (coils, plastics, flippers, switches, etc)
- new decals installed
- tombstone underside light mod
- color DMD
- Cliffy scoop

Doubt I'll ever get rid of it. It's simply magical

Well..... TFTC has become the wife's pin. I'm just the guy who holds her purse while she's plays.

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Can't help with the 3D model.....

But I can take pics of mine. What specifically do you need?

Inside or outside the cabinet?

I have a pin2DMD in my SF2 and a color DMD (LCD) in my TFTC

Go with color DMD...pin2DMD isn't worth the hassle.

Color dmd all the way!

Just found these flipper toppers on eBay...

Thoughts? They seem to differ slightly from the original ones I was looking for a few months ago

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Yupp....nothing like the fingers that are on the playfield underneath the flippers. I can't figure out where the images/graphics were taken from when they made these.

Thanks for the input.

Looks like the waiting game continues....

I'm not a fan of those bony flipper fingers

You mean the air ball deflector guard? Jakers made mine and it appears Djshakes has made some as well

Try cleaning the contacts...

Try adjusting the little gate thingy that prevents the ball from returning down into the shooter lane.

Mine will periodically hit the left and center drop target together. But for the most time, I aim for the center drop target and it'll hit.

It never hits the right drop target.

I'm broaching the idea of emailing and asking Mirco to see if they would be interested in making a production run of reproduction TFTC playfields. Just trying to see if there would be any interest from TFTC owners here on pinside.

If others are interested please let me know and maybe we can get Mirco to make a bunch of there's enough interest.

Thanks everyone

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/interest-in-micro-nos-tftc-playfield#post-4381425

I contacted Mirco via PM on pinside. Their websites "contact" button wasn't working for me.

The waiting game begins...

Wondering if any crypt owners have Pinstadium and could help me?

I have the leds mounted on the side and everything ready for a power source.

There's just one thing I don't know how to do.

Where do I clip these alligator clips? And can you be specific because I don't know where the flashers/GI are located. Sorry I'm a bit of a novice with this stuff.

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Thanks @lermods. Scott at pinstadium and a TFTC owner are going to help me out regarding that.

Another question I have that arises after the install is about the service outlet in the cabinet. It's constantly active...even when the pinball is turned off. I'm wondering about installing a remote power outlet then I don't have to constantly plug and unplug things.

Any suggestions for a remote power supply / outlet??

If the pinball is plugged in, but turned off....the service outlet in the cabinet is still turned on.

I plan on using the cabinet outlet to plug in the Pinstadium lights. But I don't want the lights to remain on when I turn off the machine.

But I also don't want to unplug the pinball everytime I turn it off. (If I don't the Pinstadium lights will remain active)

I'm just inquiring what remote power outlets would be best? So when I turn off the machine, I can hit the remote to kill power.

It's wired to connect to an outlet. The gator clips connect to the GI and flashers.

I use the service outlet in my SF2 for colorized DMD and a bartop mod. But the service outlet in the SF2 cabinet has two outlets. One that is constantly active and one than only activates when you turn on the machine.

So I have a power bar plugged into the service outlet that only activated when you turn on the pinball. (And the DMD and bartop mod are plugged into the power bar) Everything turns on together and turns off together.

I'm just trying to do the same for my TFTC. But it only has one service outlet and it's constantly active.

Am I over analyzing something?

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Second pic is my SF2 setup

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OK thanks Jake!

Pics do absolutely no justice to how amazing this mod is.

Off / On 100% / UV Glow

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I love it! And there are so many options and modes you can enable and manipulate yourself. All through an app on your phone. No wonder it won mod of the year!!

Just scroll back on the last few pages and maybe message the guys that made the air ball protector? It works really great.

As for the plastic protector set, not sure where to get those.

Best and most important mod would be a color DMD. Then pinstadiums.

But something cheap and fitting are these eyeball props I bought on eBay. They look real and I put them over the two ramps and creature feature scoop.
I just needed to dremmel them a bit so they could fit onto the LED bulbs.

You can get them from eBay user : deadheadprops

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I know which ones your talking about. I saw those and wasn't impressed. Too fake and over the top....looked more like a toy.

The deadheadprops dude on eBay has some gruesome looking props. They look so real and disgusting. Glad I could help you out

I like that alternate translate.

I knew the guy you bought it from. I suggested the eyeball prop for the scoop hole to him. Lol

It really is amazing how much of a difference it makes. Night + day....

If I wanted to place a washer or two on the left side of the super VUK in the top right of the pin....would anyone know what size washer is needed? Reason I ask is because I would like to see if placing washers on the left side will ensure the VUK wireform doesn't "settle" back into place after tightening.

(By placing the washers on the left, the VUK wireform would lean a little more to the right. Seems like when I physically press the VUK wireform slightly to the right with my hand, the pinball is spit up beautifully and consistently on the first try)

One more suggestion after close up look of your pics.

Get a cliffy protector or mantis protector for the creature feature scoop hole.

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