Has happened to me and same X files type experience, no idea how it happened

congrats on the addition. I love mine and is a keeper. Hope you enjoy it for years to come

Not absolutely sure but your opto may be set too sensitive. I have had this problem a lot and now may have it occur quite infrequently but still will happen. Try desensitizing the opto. I know when I had it real responsive I'd get phantom hits etc etc. This may help, good luck.

Oh I am assuming you know how to adjust this, if not let us know.

Sorry mate I meant the eddy being too sensitive. I had trunk problems, double hits being recorded, phantom multi balls etc because the eddy was picking up hits too easily. Hope this helps

The backglass does look very nice. Any chance of a full photo and maybe with it removed and on so we can see what colours were used? Thanks

Thank you very much for taking the time to take the photos, much appreciated

Try this guys. I played just doing loops for theatre and multiballs, did not try for illusions and stayed away from the trunk as much as possible. Got a couple 100M and a few theatres and multiball jackpots. 3 balls plus an extra ball and got 2.3B score. Risk free, easy going. I only started 3 illusions, 1 via skill shot and did not attempt to complete them. Boring way to play ToM but if you're into scores this is a safe way of doing it.

My highscore on 3 balls is 4.5B approx btw

I've had a ToM for many years an have never noticed this problem. Will have to check it out on mine. Thank guys

Anyone know the part number of the original metal post that sat on the front right corner of the trunk. It 's the one that's basically a rod with a groove for the rubber not the ones with a point. thank you very much

Thank you very much. I have seen the post spacer in place of the one you have pictures and the t nut as is. What is screwed into the t nut and can it protrude through it, I'm guessing not?

excellent, At the moment I had two of the pointed posts there and no t-nut on top, so I'll proceed once my playfield is touched up and clear coated, to install the post spacer and the pointed post. thanks for your advise.

I could be wrong but try pinball spare parts australia I am sure I saw one of these there not long ago about $22aud

Hey guys have this problem where fuse 105 (i think) blows when the ramp magnet diverter activates and I use my flippers a lot, usually during multiball. I had a rottendog driver pcb installed. I swapit for my original driver pcb that i had repaired ages ago. The problem seemed resolved. However before trying to repair the rottendog, i checked the fuse ratings. The manual says 3A slow blow. Rottendog had 3A but my original bally pcb has a 5A slow blow. I figure that's why its hanging in there and maybe the rottendog is not faulty. Any ideas where to troubleshoot? Magnet tested 4.5ohms. Btw my game is in pieces waiting on the playfield resto to be completed in a week or two. I have the harness to test though. Any advise would be appreciated and step by step instructions

Metal pieces shouldn't be too hard to find, I have all of them for my trunk as spares. Why I don't know????

Would be appreciated if you could video the tiger saw in motion as I've never seen that decal before. Looks like it would be real neat in action

I do but I'm in Australia. I have several in fact sorry

mr pinball I think used to sell the insert decals. I'm not sure but I had a set but again I'm in Australia unfortunately

I believe so. Test magnet ohms. I had a similar problem but unsure of my solution. I changed out my driver pcb. So it could be a transistor issue etc. I also noticed my trunk mech up/down had worn a notch in it that could have put excessive load on the coil. I fixed this as well

I have one that was in my tom and is now sitting in a cupboard not working. My original had been hacked that's why i replaced it but it's back in again working fine. My opinion is not positive for rottendog

The fuse connected to the spirit ring magnet check blowing mainly during multiball. When it did the trough etc was also dead.

Not 100% sure this is what you want but have a look at this. At least if it is the correct one you'll have a part number.

https://www.rtbb.com.au/product/machine-screw-pin-02-5161/

Having similar issues i think. When the fuse blows, the trunk magnet, is dead which is my indicator. Seems to happen during multiball so hard to track what kills my game

Was reading somewhere here recently of a upper flipper fuse blowing. I had the same thing happen to me and believe I found the issue. On my game the trunk and left magna save eddys were out of adjustment. On power on they were off, but once triggered they remained on or were definitely flakey. I think the trunk Eddy would sometimes remain on when the magnet was activated and hence drew too much power. I adjusted both seeing they both were flakey and not had an issuein many games. They may need a little more sensitivity but I'm still in the testing phase to make sure no fuses blow. I think f903 was going on me

Is the eddy pcb light on all the time?

That means the switch is stuck on. You need to adjust it so it goes off and only on when the ball makes the circuit or goes over the eddy. Try that and so how you go. You must need to do finer adjustments once you solve the initial issue

I had this blow also. It is 3amp. Now i posted what worked for me but am not sure if this is the solution but now my game has not failed in many plays.

The trunk eddy and my right hand lane Eddy would remain on (led stays lit) when they are activated. They should turn off when the ball rolls away from them. I believe either or both magnets in my case where probably triggered and remained on blowing the fuse. Fuse always blew during multiball. So you need to adjust the eddy switches so the led lights when the ball passed them and turns off when gone. Took me awhile to notice this as the eddys would reset when the game is switched off. Fine tune these and then let us know the result. Adjustment is with a small screw driver turning the pot adjustment

Is this a known problem. I have on occasions shot the ball into the trunk (I think while it was moving? ) and heard the ball hit the bottom of the cabinet. I think in the 15 years I've had it, this has occurred maybe a dozen times. Am I missing something on the game I'm not aware of? The subway ramp entrance on my game does have a decent gap between the side walls and the pf timber

You can either take it off its mount and place it on the cabinet floor or I cut a rubber post sleeve and placed it over the bolts. It made it a little quieter. I also had to make an earth wire to touch the plate and transformer

And some ss games like space invaders

Most probably a switch not being activated to say a ball is there trapped or the trap coil is broken ie. Wire is off etc. Try test firing that coil to see if it fires. If yes then look at the switches the ball rests on
Most likely the switch for the first ball lock

What is missing exactly. I have all the metal pieces and motor/gearbox and maybe wire harness. I have plastic trunk as well. Also I am in australia. Let me know via mail and will see exactly what I have you need and whether I am will sell and risk my parts trunk doesn't break

Here is what I have found so far
All are new/never used except for trunk eddy pcb. Obviously you can easily get the screws and hardware needed to put it all together.
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Just looking at the manual, I think I also have the opto assembly, led sensors, magnet decal. Will need to look harder to see if I have anything else though.

I also have complete trapdoor assembly, hell I still have lots of parts for tom.

Shoot the ramp first time, lights spirit ring, shoot again the ramp and ring should grab the ball

I think this game a quite easy with long ball times. Magna saves on the outside, ball saves at the start, I think having this pop will make it too easy once you master the device. I wouldn't put it on my game. But then again I like ghostbusters as factory without larger flippers etc

Looks excellent. Are you able to take a photo of the backglass off so I can see the colours you used, the type of led and their position. I leded mine and it's close to yours but not as nice.

Thank you very much

Possibly an age thing and needing to see the ball better, but I decided to try and lighten up the playfield without going the pinstadium and light it up like a football field. I simply added two spotlights up the left side and think it has done the job for me. The photo doesn't clearly show the effect but it is very noticeable in real life. The room was pitch black at the time of taking the photo and no camera flash.

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Cleaning the rabbit poop out of the game must be a challenge though lol

They look like they attach to the pop bumper globes that you feed down through the pop bumper bodies. They are flat thin metal strips that comes off the light sockets

You can buy new style holders with black leads.They're similar if not the same found in spotlights . I've installed them, the down point is they don't seat as well inside the pop bumper. They tend to lean towards one side. Sort of fix is the cable tie the leads again the globe holder to stabilize it a little.

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Now we're talking. I wish I'd seen these before and doubly wish they were available in oz.

I can't see where this would go either. I can't see it in my photo during a restore.

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Mate I'll get out all my resto pix and make sure this piece wasn't part of the pf

gone through hundreds of my resto photos and here is one that shows all the wires except for those anti bounce back ones under the flipper area

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Hiw do you install a shaker and does the original home rom utilize it?

Can you buy say Tom shaker and put it on a Tz and simply get the coding from them like you can do with colordmd

I have had this issue since changing to the home rom bit I think I changed back to 1.3 and it persisted so went back again to the home rom
I cannot get the trunk balk save to work. It did work pre rom change but since the change it doesn't matter which rom I use it won't function. I have balk save on and works and I turned trunk ball save on but no go. So if you hit the trunk with a Sdtm shot you get no ball save. The trunk reed switch works otherwise the modes wouldn't work.

Any ideas on what to look at?

Yes thats my revision and I have trunk save set to on.

Yes thats my revision and I have trunk save set to on.

Looked at sorens thread, how do you get a copy?

That's OK soren just sent me a copy I believe. Thank you all the same