I have been worried about protecting my game in hopes to keep it a long time and decided to add the slingshot and rail guide protectors from PL. They were easy to install and I did notice that the plastics already had a couple dings so I think it was a good $10 investment. I chose clear but they also had a neon green that would have illuminated nicely if I played in the dark.

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I know there have been several posts about this previously but I wanted to share my experience with coil stops. I have played over 1000 games on my machine and check the stops for obvious signs of failure which didn’t seem to be the case. Tonight I was fed up with missing the S shot due to weak power and decided to replace the left flipper coil stop and clean the coil sleeve while I was at it. I will include a picture of the old and new coil stop for reference but immediately I could hit the S shot easily. I will replace the other coils stops another night but the right flippers don’t seem to need as much power and aren’t sticking or anything.

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I have always played with the lights turn on because the playfield was too dark in the middle, however I like the arcade feel of the dark setting. I wanted to experiment with the idea of pin stadiums without dropping $300, I decided to build a prototype version of their x-stream version that can move from game to game easily. I was surprised how easy this project could be and what a difference it could make. I’ll post pictures but essentially a $15 LED strip, $2 worth of plastic and $5 worth of Velcro works. You could get black plastic and a few other things to make it look less tacky but whatever. Oh yeah, the candy cane effect of lights is more pronounced on camera than actual.

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I feel like Raptor multiball has a bug/opportunity for improvement when playing multiplayer. It seems that if one player locks a ball in the raptor pit, the next player can start multiball with extra gate hits, I don’t have an issue with this. My complaint is that when the player who locked the first ball gets back to their turn, it seems the gate should raise and only require the necessary amount of gate hits to start multiball, then the game could shoot two new balls into play instead of the normal add one to make it a three ball multiball. Also I noticed that after multiple players had unlocked raptor multiball the game would occasionally stop raising the gate and players could only start raptor multiball with a bunch of target hits. Can someone explain if this is by design, a bug, or expected?

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This happens to me once every hundred games or so, it’s been so rare I haven’t even attempted a fix. I just put the ball back in the shooter lane to avoid losing the ball. I seem to get more air balls since replacing with Marco standards, maybe they are a little less heavy or more polished and move quicker.

So I accidentally order 3/8” flipper bands instead of the standard 1/2”. They are noticeably shorter on the flippers but initially I didn’t notice much difference. Is there a reason I should not just use the stock I accidentally ordered?