Baltimore, MD
I recently bought the hobbit and only realized tonight that I have not seen the goblin pop up.
I went into the settings and the goblin and warg was in red stating “malfunction”. Any ideas how to fix this?
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Check connections under those two mechs, then the thinner wires that go to connectors mine were chopped kinda thin by mechs going up and down.
At the bottom of the assembly is a nut, with a rubber stopper on a threaded rod. If the character pops up and down smoothly, raise the stopper up a little so the plunger rides higher in the coil.
If it doesn't move up and down smoothly, then figure out if it's dragging in the hole in the playfield. Or if the mech itself needs adjusting - which is remove from the game, three connectors and 5 screws. And then loosen, tweak, tighten, learn new curse words to get it lined up so it pops up and down smoothly.
LTG : )
Thanks for the replies...
The Goblin is working again, after moving it manually a few times, I guess it got stuck. The Warg needs a new spring for the coil, and the white and green wires going into the mech are completely cut.
I had two of my pop-ups on Hobbit cut wires underneath them very early in my ownership of the game (it was NIB). It is a common problem with the pin. JJP support seemed unaware of this at first as I spent hours on the phone with them looking at circuit boards and multiple other connectors to try to determine why my "L" wasn't lighting up and one of my pop-ups wasn't working. Both were wires cut by the pop-up mechs. Hopefully they are more aware of this problem now as that has been a couple years.
Quoted from TRAMD:I had two of my pop-ups on Hobbit cut wires underneath them very early in my ownership of the game (it was NIB). It is a common problem with the pin. JJP support seemed unaware of this at first as I spent hours on the phone with them looking at circuit boards and multiple other connectors to try to determine why my "L" wasn't lighting up and one of my pop-ups wasn't working. Both were wires cut by the pop-up mechs. Hopefully they are more aware of this problem now as that has been a couple years.
That sucks, you would think they would have a better solution.
I noticed the zip tie that holds the wire to the side of the mech broke, and I assume the wire was rubbing against the metal part. Unfortunately it was cut too short and I am not able to splice it. I'll have to solder new longer wires onto the mech, and then splice the old connector.
2 years later
Hi guys, I know this post is old but one of my pop up seem to touch the playfield a bit witch someone prevent it from going down smoothly.
Where is the adjustment made?
Thanks
Quoted from skwal:Where is the adjustment made?
For a start I'd loosen the five screws under the playfield and pull the whole mech back as far as you can and then retighten the screws.
See if that got you enough room.
LTG : )
Quoted from LTG:For a start I'd loosen the five screws under the playfield and pull the whole mech back as far as you can and then retighten the screws.
See if that got you enough room.
LTG : )
I ve did that it seem to have worked for a bit but now same issue with the popup dragging against the back of the playfield. It s the only one out of the 4
any other sugestion?
Quoted from skwal:any other sugestion?
Nothing easy. Figure out what is dragging. Then remove the whole mech. And fix it.
You'll have to remove the metal flap on top - 2 clips 2 springs. I'd have a magnet near them for when they go ZING.
Under the playfield. A few connectors and 5 screws.
While you have it out and analyze the situation. Before you put it back in the machine be sure it goes up and down smoothly. Plan on tearing hair out and spending a lot of time getting it all back lined up. If you loosen or remove any of the screws around the frame.
I've found a good start is start all the screws - sides and bottom. Then squeeze the whole thing together. Then tighten the screws. Sometimes this works. And other times it loosening and tightening stuff back and forth, until it goes up and down smoothly.
LTG : )
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