Fun idea. I would consider staining it to give it a weathered look that would blend in better.

Joined the club a couple days ago. Great game! Glass slide is perfect. No complaints about my build. Pinball machines always need a little tlc tweaking here and there. This game is no different. Nothing unusual so far except how fun it is. What a terrific design. So many excellent and challenging shots!

Is there a way to disable having the action button act as another start button? We keep accidentally starting games leaning on it. I looked in the manual but couldn’t find a setting for this.

Found it. Game adjustment #60

After just a few days of being in the club, my Trex has stopped working entirely. I’m also having trouble even testing it in the diagnostics due to crappy menu buttons on the coin door.

When the menu buttons do work, it seems like the horizontal test goes okay, but the vertical test does absolutely nothing.

I emailed Stern, but thought I’d ask here too in hopes that someone here has run into this and could offer some advice.

I checked the horizontal and vertical boards. Like you said, the horizontal board has two red diagnostic leds. Both leds on the horizontal boards are fine.

There appears to be two similar leds on the vertical board. Neither of those are lit.

Another question: I noticed that I can easily and freely move the trex side to side by hand, but it won’t budge vertically. Is that normal?

Eddie at Stern solved this for me. Just needed to reseat a connector. Here’s the full explanation:

“You should be able to move the assembly by hand horizontally, but not vertically.

Reseat the CN5 connector on lamp board 9A. From 9A, it goes to the serial motor driver board, this controls the vertical movement.
The horizontal movement is controlled by the stepper motor driver board.”

Great, prompt help from Eddie!

Time to get intimate with my Trex! The lower jaw just flew off mid-game. Judging by the holes in the jaw, I’m on the hunt for three screws somewhere in my game. If/when I find the screws, how do I access the underside of the jaw to put it back together?

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Finding the screws was easy. No wonder they came loose! They only stick through the lower jaw by about 1/16th of an inch. Wondering if I should get some slightly longer screws or use locktite and cross my fingers.

Well that was easy. Hopefully it stays put. I put some blue locktite on each of the screws and got the screws back in with my trusty offset Phillips screwdriver that I bought over 30 ago. I originally bought it to remove the lock hasp from the Art Department roof at my college. My friends and I would go up there on hot summer nights and take in the night, always being careful to cover our tracks and put the lock back on when we were done.

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Aside from having to otherwise slum it having a separate thread is total bs. Hell, the Star Trek owners club thread covers not only all three Stern trim levels but two other games that are totally unrelated except for the fact that they have “Star Trek” in the name.

That’s not a reason for two owner’s threads. Specific mech issues such as the Trex or raptor gate can and should be in threads of their own like every other game on Pinside.

And rampage and t-Rex chase and….

Yup - had that happen more than once.

How are brand new balls magnetized?

Brand new in my mind = never been used.

I’ve never heard of a jack for a playfield. Do tell….