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PF pitch?!
IM has been at 8(!) when I got it and I can hit all the shots, but maybe not as much I could. I did lower it to 7, and my wife prefers the way that shoots better.
What has been peoples' go-to pitch settings? I've seen 6.5 reading though a lot of posts.
Got intimate with the machine tonight,
-Lowered it to 7 pitch
-Leveled side to side.
-Installed quiet fan from pinmonk
-Sorted the autoplunger so it would work without bricking and make trooper multiball work like Lord Elwin intended. The autoplunger was rubbing against the guiderail when auto-launching the ball
-waxed with p21s
- changed the paper subwoofer (but really need an amp to make a difference)
Now it plays buttery smooth. And It’s awesome. TY for the input to get the most out of this machine!
3 weeks later
My issue was the autoplunger was rubbing against the side of the outer ball guide. I could see it rubbing when I moved the auto plunger with my finger.
Yours look close in the picture. Maybe it moved over a fraction of a mm when you changed the rod?
I tested it by pulling on the side of the guiderail with my hand while the ball was being launched. Watch them fingertips!
1 month later
Quoted from Flynnyfalcon:So I've been flipping through all the old posts in this thread and found a number of possible fixes for my inconsistent shooter but none have helped. Has a definitive fix been noted?
I've tried:
Waxing the shooter lane
Adjusting the ball guide
Adjusting the shooter
Adjusting the auto plunger
Levelling playfield to within an inch of its life
What am I missing? Plunges are consistently inconsistent. Going high, then low, then high etc etc.
I've only owned my Maiden for a couple of months and absolutely love it, but geez the plunge is a let down.
I tried all those, but eventually I realized the right tine on the autoplunger just "barely" scraped the side rail. It was very fine, but it was the culprit.
The ball plunged fine when I used my hands to pull on the side of the rail away from the autoplunger (warning: the autoplunger will f* you up if it hits!o!), so I drilled a hole and put a screw there to keep the rail away from the autoplunger tines. I'm at 100% now auto and manual.
1 year later
After a year of having mods, I finally got into putting them in last week; shooter rod, "flipper stickers," orb light up sphere and colored lens tree for the modes...but did the color coding change on the game, or did I get some janky lens tree?
Pin monk's is color correct, but the one I have is not. I bought it over a year ago and don't have the label where it's from so I cannot recall the maker, and I didn't order it from pinside apparently.
Quoted from PinMonk:Is yours installed upside down? If it's mine, that's a common error. Post a pic of the install and I can talk you through it if it's mine.
thanks. I don't think it is...but I'll take a look this afternoon.
Added 8 months ago:Doh! Pinmonk you were right. It was upside down! I feel so dense. Thank you for the help!!
the ball hitting the upper flipper is typically, oddly, from the autoplunge teeth from hitting the side of the lane.
check for rub marks on it; ideal is the autoplunge teeth should NOT rub on the metal of the lane (right side).
Quoted from Jason_Jehosaphat:Oh, man! This is comforting - knowing that my pin isn't the only one with an interference issue involving the auto-plunger's kicker arm and the stainless ballguide that hugs the playfield's stability girder running up the right edge of the playfield!
My kicker, like yours, was rubbing on that fricking ballguide! The auto-plunger is VERY sensitive. It does NOT work right if it rubs on nearby objects! The ballguide can NOT be moved over to give the kicker more room, and neither can the auto-plunger assembly be moved over to the left. So, you really have to either remove the ballguide and plane its face down with a long bastard-cut file, or you need to deliberately tweak the kicker so that it clears the ballguide. The kicker should be perfectly vertical, so tweaking it left will make it lean a little and look odd. I also think it won't work quite as well this way, but it will work better than it will with the rubbing.
I tried bending, but the only way I could keep it vertical was by drilling a hole and placing a screw!
Quoted from Jason_Jehosaphat:Yours is a very good point! That rail absolutely MUST be vertical, but it sometimes isn't because that stupid girder it's attached to leans left! Are you telling me you drilled an additional hole in the girder and secured it with a long screw from the bottom of the playfield? Nice work if that truly straightened that girder to vertical!
I wish it were pretty! -_- Once I got 100% autoplunge, and left it like that!! (you can see the bite marks on the right of my pliers trying to get a bend that never came)
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