Strange.
Attached to the ramp, I have:

1 2-pin connector for the entrance switch that has its own hole near the entrance
1 2-pin connector for the middle switch that uses the hole that you described
1 6-pin connector that uses the hole that you described
The famous 4-pin connector that is in the zone that I marked in red and thus wires are not long enough to return to the hole that you described.

Ok found. It's in fact the connector in which you plug the "Shoot here to load Gumball W/lit" lights.

Thank you for your help.

Scrolling through Craigslist ads and ran across this photo in a Twilight Zone ad...talk amongst yourselves!

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"Needs a good shop job!"

Hate seeing faded cabs! BAM has cabinet decals in stock.

LMFAO! What the heck?!! That’s hilarious, i can only imagine what story is behind that photo.

My center lock opto is really finicky. I align it and a few games later its off. Anyone have any ideas/tips?

Cold solder joints. Reflow the solder on them and see if that makes them work consistently.

You've just crossed over into the Twilight Zone... (watch your back for yetis and spiderman)

I need to replace my inside cabinet decals, somehow the previous owner chewed them up. Does anyone know where this exact set might be available? The ones on Pinball Decals are different. Also any advice on how to remove these safely and place new ones on. Thanks in advance for any info.

EDIT: They are from the Modfather.

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You should also take a look at these: https://pinside.com/pinball/market/shops/1073-sillyoldelf-mods/01073-twilight-zone-custom-high-resolution-playfield-decals

They perfectly match the playfield art - not only in style; but, in the actual locations. It's like the playfield extends to the walls.

I had a really weird thing happen with my TZ last night..... My ball lock popper solenoid has need adjustment for some time, so last night I finally did it. After putting the game back together, (drop PF, reinstall balls, glass lockbar) I played a few games and during game play, the entire game died. Now, I have color DMD installed, so it's screen was lit, but all black. I cycled the power, and still the game was in the same state. Powered down, unplugged the game, removed the backglass and went through all plugs, ribbon cables and re-seated them all. I then pressed on all socketed chips on both sound board and CPU including the ASIC.... Turned the game back on, and worked fine. I did have the vertical bars in the display, but after screwing with the ribbon cables, I fixed that too.

I then played about 10 games, and it all seems fine.

Any Ideas?

EDIT: It was definitely the TWILIGHT ZONE!

My secondary ball launch (where multi-balls are automatically launched from) isn't powerful enough for the ball to make it all the way around and often drops back into the rocket launch. Any thoughts on what might be causing this would be greatly appreciated!

These are great, thank's for the tip!

Coil sleeve, bad kicker arm plunger, bad coil, gunk in the kicker arm. Take it apart, rebuild it.

That's wild. Mine was losing balls and I thought the same thing!

... and I'm out of the club. I've had a sample TZ in my gameroom 'on long term loan' for about 18 months but the owner was ready to reclaim it so I delivered it to them this weekend. The good - it was in pretty bad shape when I got it and I brought it up to snuff in a lot of areas. The bad - I think I'm going to miss having it downstairs. My Kickstarter that ends tomorrow was partially inspired by the pyramid references on the game. Oh well, maybe it will come back to me some day!

-Rob
-visit http://www.kahr.us to get my daughterboard that helps fix WPC pinball resets or for my Pinball 2000 H+V video sync combiner kit
-check out my Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2111218102/pinball-pyramid?ref=bcsjqr

If you ever head west, lemme know. You're welcome to get your fix on mine!

That was yours at York this year, just a few games down from where my vendor booth was set up, right? It was awesome!

-Rob
-visit http://www.kahr.us to get my daughterboard that helps fix WPC pinball resets or for my Pinball 2000 H+V video sync combiner kit
-check out my Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2111218102/pinball-pyramid?ref=bcsjqr

Help needed please. Was playing a game and the screen did this and the flippers stopped working. I turned it off and back on the the screen goes blank all the way now. I can start a game but the ball will not eject and flippers will not work. sounds work as should but random coils just start firing(not the flippers)????? If I eject a ball manually games seams to work but I still can't use the flippers. I can also get into test modes but can't test anything as I can't see the screen.

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Yup! I'm still working out the little bugs it picked up at the show, too..!

Where can I test that?

Check all voltages on your power driver board. There should be test points (TPs) for the voltages on the board. Assuming you have the WPC board. If you have another make (Rottendog, etc) then you'd have to check with their documentation.

It was a bad fuse on the 12 volt. Thanks much for the help

Glad you got it!

I have an extra TZ playfield. It is not is the best shape but would be a good candidate for restoration. Supposedly it is the old PF from the Pinball Hall of Fame TZ in Vegas for whatever that's worth. Lol.
Is this thing worth anything as is (I know it depends on condition but just asking in general terms) or restored? Searching the interwebs, I cannot find any TZ PFs for sale at the moment...

I believe Mirco is still selling his. http://www.highclasspinballs.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=85&osCsid=8684541ba25d9996c877177c4bb472f9

Hey thanks,
I have never heard of Mirco. So are these repro playfields?

Yeah, he re-ran them about a year ago, I believe.

I have a Mirco TZ reproduction PF that was cleared by Kruzman. I never did the swap. It is so shiny it looks wet. I should post a few pics.

Don't worry... next week is house league and you'll get to soak in mine as much as you want

House league is a blast. But I just checked who I'm matched against and I suspect I'll be doing more watching than playing! Guess I'll come plenty early to games during warm up...

-Rob
-visit http://www.kahr.us to get my daughterboard that helps fix WPC pinball resets or for my Pinball Pyramid bracket

Hey guys, I just installed a pinstadium in my TZ that already had a colordmd. I wasn't played so I don't know what happened but the flippers don't work the dmd and pinstadium are out. Fuse F116 looks good but i'm assuming it's a power board issue related to J116 or J118. Any help would be nice as I'm no expert with these types of issues.

1. The machine powers up
2. Flippers and dmd don't work

Thanks for any help

Check the test points for all the voltages: http://pinwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Williams_WPC#LEDs_and_test_points_on_WPC-089_Power.2FDriver_Boards

That will help you identify the fuse/component that could have blown. I'm going to guess the 12V circuit, but I don't know what voltage colordmd and pinstadium run on.

Thanks, turns out it was just the 12v accessory fuse like I thought. It must have had a micro crack because I couldn't see anything and just replaced it anyway. Works fine now.

I'd say 100 bucks would be a good price! Are you selling? I'm buying!

I've been slowly working on my TZ restore. (currently everything is off and reassembly is about to start) I purchased Ingo's clock board (looks awesome but will be a while before it see it lit up) I also have a blue housing so swapped everything over to the new.

Found a odd screw that needed to be replaced on the back of the clock. It is a #6 sheet metal + pan head 1-3/4" long screw. Was a bugger to find. I now have 99 extras. If you are looking for 1-4 let me know and I can ship some out for the cost of postage. (USA only/Paypal) It doesn't have the little cut at the tip of the screw but I don't think that would matter much.

I'm new to pin side and not sure how to join clubs. I think I would fit in good here as I own two TZs, one I bought new in box when they first came out and a second in really nice condition a couple of years later off of location for about $600. Before e-bay, operators in my area were getting about $500 trading in machines to the local distributor. I built a relationship with operators who took good care of their machines and traded often. I would meet them at a location, help set up their new pin, that they had gotten a better deal by not having a trade, and got an extra hundred in cash from me. That is the only reason I have the collection I have today. Now why have I turned down many offers for my "extra" TZ . I have three sons and of all the machines I have they all want a TZ when I go. Not sure who will lose out but it will probably be two. I'm retired on an ok fixed income. And the extra TZ is looking like money under the mattress that could be better used elsewhere. Please no requests yet. I'll let you all know if I ever really need the money.

Here is my NIB TZ next to my $600. FH

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Awesome story on your TZ's (and FH). Thanks for shaing.

OT: My sis just arrived from Orlando and she brought me this lovely mug:

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hello it's me, your long-lost fourth son

Welcome dcannan !

No need to worry about joining clubs... its just a delimitor identifying a thread for general conversation about a particular game, nothing special. I think its a nice way of organizing and focusing discussion and general news. If something going to be in debth such as restoration documentation, people will typically put that on a sepetate thead then post a link in the relevant club thread.

Hey fellow TZ owners, I'm having some weird intermittent issues with Column 7 on my TZs switch matrix. was wondering if any of you can help. I posted the original help thread in Tech Modern Games here:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/twilight-zone-switch-matrix-issues#post-4094122

I know that it's meant to pay homage to the B/W era, but TZ's colordmd could use a little bit more colors...

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As tricked out as you've got that machine, a monochrome DMD might actually provide a brief interlude of sanity.

I was going to write that it's more to pay homage to the black-and-white original TV series as I took B/W to mean Bally/Williams. I'd love to fit my games with ColorDMDs, but they're very expensive and I'm currently holding out for a MM or TAF.

I don't quite get what you mean... pretty much everything that can be colored is colored. The JACKPOT animation and LITZ start is fantastic.

I have mine set to dots. The colors are great!

In fact, for my money, TZ is the only game I considered NOT using ColorDMD on, because it looks so good in monochrome. I would love to get just grey dots on there, but seems like a waste of a colorDMD...

If you're keen enough, you could replace all the orange LEDs on a DMD to normal white ones.