Hey guys! Maiden Pro owner here!! It seems as if my ball lock for the trooper multiball or even mode starts is very slow. The posts come up but it’s a few seconds after it happens. I did just wax the playfield and cleaned thoroughly. The optos all register but for whatever reason, when I hit the center orbit/spinner to lock the ball, the post is very delayed to come up! Any help is greatly appreciated!! Thank you all!

Figured it out! Just needed switch adjustments! All good!!

A link, please?

I don’t know how to .I’ll have my kid show me later but go to Little Shop of Games .It’s under The Art of Pinball .

Spectacular work. Very well done.

Great work Sleal

Hooo boy hooo boy!
It looks amazing!
And great painting job!

Awesome!

Love it !

Up The Irons

Looks awesome! Thinking of selling these? I'd be interested for sure.

Me too, how much will it be ?

Just like your Godzilla mods, this is a must have. I will be looking out for a list if you start one.

Anyone have an Iron Maiden premium/le playfield they are willing to sell /trade?

I would be interested in a full color one for sure!! Looks amazing!!

All that $$$ for the Art of Pinball mod and they don't even take the time to cover up the screws on the Pharaoh.

Cheko for the WIN! Nice attention to detail my man.

And me!

A few days ago my left up post missed a few times but it passed the coil test so I just kept an eye on it. Today after several thousand plays and exactly a year and a week past the machine's build date it had it's first actual hardware breakdown when the post stopped working entirely.

Checked for technician alerts but had none. Tested the coil in diagnostics again and confirmed it wasn't firing. Unsoldered 1 lug and tested the resistance and found it wasn't passing power at all.

Pulled it out for a closer look and found a cracked solder joint in the coil itself where the copper winding attaches to the lug. Looking at it the joint was pretty sloppy to begin with with no metal-metal contact just a big, ugly glob of solder with the wire stuck in. I'm surprised it lasted this long. After removing the glob and redoing it right everything is back up and running 100%.

Eyeballed the joints on a few other coils and they looked fine but food for thought if you have a coil failure on one of the Aug/Sept 2021 builds.

Big shout out to Sleal16 for this mod! Loved painting it, and it looks amazing in my machine!!! You rock!

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That looks great. If you decide to do a run, I’ll take a fully painted one. Nice work!

Good Stuff

Not sure if has been mentioned in this thread, I may have missed it ?

Anyone installed SiC in their Iron Maiden ?
Worth while addition ?
I am thinking about if any value adding Insider Connect.

Its ok on Godzilla but SiC kit is $400 aud here its either that or put the money towards more mods.

Appreciate any feedback about Insider for Iron Maiden please.

If you still have that Godzilla on your profile page, just buy an sd card and wifi dongle for Maiden and register using Godzilla's scanner if needed. Then just use home team for IMDN. Much cheaper option

Ah awesome, thanks!!!
Is there any reference guide or key post to make this happen ?
That would be so cool not to have to install another scanner. I really like the custom apron cards on my Iron Maiden

^^^^
This

Most people are really shitty techs, lack attention to detail and often make the machine play worse for a blinky light.

And the mods are often a loss when selling.

Paying lior prices for a sculpture, no thanks. I play pinball, it is a kinetic + sound experience for me not a beauty contest.

The only really cool mod I can think of:
tron Eli ramps

Got my precision flippers installed. They feel great. Lots of power and consistency. I was hitting ramp shots so much easier than I could before.

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If you don’t mind , what did the whole set cost for IMDN ? i was on his site it’s a little confusing .Also , any worry about playfield damage ? Just trying to get a feel but seems everyone that has tried them have been saying good things .Like I need something else to spend $ on in pinball

I'd recommend the full kits with bushings. That's the combination that gives the great feel and precision. A 3-flipper full kit with colored bats is $157.50. If you want to add the mini-flipper (currently only available in silver), you'd have to manually add a miniflipper bat, shaft, and bushing. About $60 for all those.

Been seeing alot on those flippers…at what point is it pseudo cheating if it truly impacts the game. I know we’re not talking tourney play or anything like that and it doesn’t matter for home players.

Thanks ,I read your review and it’s what got me interested in it .I’m fine with it ,but also worried it will make me somewhat upset to go out for league night .Either way I’m going to try it in 1 game and probably should go with MET since it will be cheaper

This debate has been going on in the topic dedicated to the flippers. I think it all depends on your personal situation. If you're a tournament player you probably don't want them since you will have to adjust to normal flippers when you play competitively. If you're like most of us and just having fun I think they can be a nice improvement since the game is still working as intended, just better.
I also think if you're a really good player it probably doesn't matter as much at the end of the day since those guys can hit shots at will already, but for us mere mortals I like the idea that they take some slop out of the parts and give a more consistent shot. Maybe it's more mental than anything though.

They are definitely snappier and you will have to turn down the solenoid power to avoid overshooting, but the plus side of that is that it gives more room for adjusting the game to exactly how you like it. I am able to hit the pharoah ramp from the right flipper with a lot of power now when before the shot would just barely make it up the ramp and onto the target and I like that.

Whether it's cheating? I wouldn't go that far, it's more like the difference between a well maintained game and a poorly maintained one that misses because of reasons beyond the player's control. The tolerance on the shaft/bushing is quite amazing compared to the parts Stern uses.
I don't think they give enough of an advantage to be considered cheap or cheating but I would like to see if the really good players get even more consistent when they use them. Everyone seems to feel differently about this kind of topic so it's really going to come down to personal preference.

Being able to adjust the flipper angle quickly is probably going to be a big selling point for some people too since it's quite a pain to do it on the stock Stern setup.

They look pretty sweet too which is always a bonus.

I don’t think it’s cheating, it’s your machine set it up however you like. People spend a lot of money on their machines, they should set them up however they want to make them the most amount of fun for them, if someone wants to play on 10 balls on their own machine I think that’s fine too.

I like having flipper fans and Titan rubbers, I won’t be getting the precision flippers though. I feel like the fans just make the game work as intended when I play for a long time. The titans are partly to make the machine not get as dirty. I think these new flippers, if they make shots easier, that’s actually going to make me a worse player over time. There’s other settings I’d rather play with to make a game easier. I played with a really loose tilt bob for a while and it made me worse after a while because I knew I could just slide the machine around endlessly to save any bad shots so I didn’t have to be as accurate.

I also hope they don’t become so standard an add on that designers start making games more difficult because their games are becoming easier than they intended.

Mine used to work great and then I waxed and now it’s all over the place. Is there a post number discussing the filing of the guide?

That mummy captive ball, brutal I finally got mine pretty well functioning but really had me down on the game for awhile. But when it’s working, one of my favorite, played all night tonight.

Just feel the end of the guide where the ball exits that little gate from the plunge lane and see if you feel any bur or roughness on the edge. If you do get a file and try to flatten it out.

You can also take off the plastic and there is an adjustment screw. Loosen it a bit and push the guide in whichever direction it needs to go based on how yours is failing, then tighten it back up.

I will say though even after I upgraded the solenoid on the autoplunge to be bigger, removed the bur and adjusted the guide mine has never been 100%. It might have to do with the machine not being perfectly level, but I think it's just a design that is flawed and expecting 100% is unrealistic.

not to start a pissing contest but mine is 100% and has been since I dialled it in .

On the captive ball ,I reverse crimped the the leaf switch and it’s stayed over 2 years now .I’ll send a picture tomorrow night .The first game I miss 2 auto plunges I replace the coil sleeve ,Sand the coil stop and wax .It’s always gone back to 100% after .Get roughly 200 games each time .

Reverse crimped the top leaf .So it has a hair between it and the next .I sometimes use this truck with pneumatic stats at work so figured why not

lol, I believe you! I just find that even when mine seems adjusted as well as I can it still misses occasionally. The floor my machine is on is really uneven though so I think as I nudge it becomes slightly out of level and that might play a part.

I'm intrigued by this because I know it will fail again (once something comes loose, etc), but I don't know what a reverse crimp is. Would you be able to get a picture of what you did that works? I switched from the round post to the pencil tipped post, which works better except when it goes over center and gets stuck outside the spoon.

Absolutely ,I’ll get a picture up later tonight or tomorrow latest .Basically I took needle nose pliers and crimped the top leaf (roughly in the middle )toward the longer leafs underneath .I do this at work with sensitive pneumatic controls and I learned this from my mentor .The crimp holds its place very well .I can’t remember having to ever go back on any I’ve done over the years .I was having fits at first adjusting it over and over then crimped and have not had to lift this playfield (besides a few mods ) in over 2 years .

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I am looking for left backbox decal

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Yeah I was going to say the same thing.

Sometimes the pinball gods are unfair. Best game Ive ever had. Got to number of the beast and can i play with madness for the first time ever. and my score ended up being like one slingshot away from a billion. Come on man!

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I know that one.
But dont really want to pay 43$ in shipping cost to Europe.

Please excuse this mini-rant, it's not directed (mostly) at you. I really, really wish folks that post open-ended requests would put the parameters around those requests with them. In this case, someone asks for a specific part. Several folks quickly provide the links for that exact part. Only then does the OP state something to the effect "I only want something available in the EU". If you had noted that initially, it would have saved several folks the hassle. Sorry. /rantoff

But in this case i dont only search for EU.
And i never wrote that, so stop lying.
And yes i think you are a rant-dickhead!
Maybe someone has on laying around or know some other place where to buy it with less shipping cost. Lets say one in the US that could send it for far less then 43 $

So i search the whole world for one with ok shipping cost.

I’ve done this on a few pinbsll switches and have never needed to go back to it for what it’s worth