(Topic ID: 286835)

TOM trouble - balls in subway to trap door

By fanuminski

3 years ago



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  • Latest reply 3 years ago by isJ
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#1 3 years ago

I can play a game or two and it will work fine , then it will not kick out a ball after locking ball one -but usually after locking ball two. It won't "find" it either.
AFter tilting it and restarting, it will spit out one of the two balls, but
It will say "missing ball" - but it's in the subway to the trap door.

I went into the Trap door test and dropped the remaining 3 balls and it then it spit out all 4.
However, upon subsequent tests when dropping in the 4 balls , sometimes it went through
the sequence of switches 44,43,42,41 in correct order of open and then closed and spit out all 4, but
sometimes it started with switch 43,42,41 instead.
sometimes it would kick out all 4 balls, but sometimes only 3 .

I'm not sure what the problem is - is there a flaky switch or something in the switch matrix screwed up?
I'm terrible at understanding the switch matrix...
any help is appreciated. The game is unplayable as it stands...
thanks
M

#2 3 years ago
Quoted from fanuminski:

is there a flaky switch

#44

LTG : )

#3 3 years ago

would that be the first switch - closest to the trap door?
Upon checking those switches earlier, for continuity, they all seemed to work correctly -
should I try and adjust the wire triggering the switch , or just replace that switch?
thanks L
Mike

#4 3 years ago

ok - dropped balls again and 41 is the closest to the trap door - but
when I drop all the balls together into the trunk, the sequence to kick them out (open and closed switches)
seems to vary from one test to the next. It's hard to tell which switch is really screwed up.
but 1 out of 4 times, it only spits out 3

I'll try just dropping 3 balls in and see if I only get 2

#5 3 years ago

Ok - I tried dropping 3 balls and 1 out of 4 times it only kicked out 2
I dropped 2 balls and 1 out of 4 times in only kicked out 1
I dropped 1 ball and 1 out of 4 times it didn't even register and kick out a ball
(I then dropped another ball in to get the 2 back)

Now I'm really confused as to what switch or why it didn't even register one ball (switch 41)

#6 3 years ago

"I dropped 1 ball and 1 out of 4 times it didn't even register and kick out a ball"

This is telling me that your suspicion that the last switch nearest to kick out is flakey and is the likely culprit.

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