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What to do with my first pin: Jurassic Park

By accidental

11 years ago

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Quoted from blondetall:
I'll also add that mine had Cliffy protectors on the bunkers, and I ended up taking them off because it made the bunkers harder to hit and the ball would get stuck coming back out of the far left bunker. I don't know if they were just installed wrong or what, and they certainly looked much better with the protectors on, but it plays better without in my opinion.

Sounds like they were installed wrong. The ball should have no issue when getting ejected from the left scoop. If you look at the third step of the installation instructions on Cliffy's website (http://www.passionforpinball.com/jp.htm) you'll see that you need to make sure the scoop assembly is moved all the way back.

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Quoted from accidental:
I'm curious about what would have caused it and what would return it to it's optimal state.
The right flipper doesn't have this problem but the EOS switch is still disconnected from that one. I guess whatever it was that made the left flipper stop operating strongly like the right (which was somewhat remedied by reconnecting the EOS switch) is enough to make it necessary to rebuild it.

In its optimal state a raised flipper on Jurassic Park should give about 1/16 of an inch before full power kicks in and brings it back up. If it is more then that then a flipper rebuild and EOS adjustment should correct it.

Checkout out PinWiki (http://www.pinwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Data_East/Sega#Flipper_Issues) it covers what the EOS is used for in Jurassic Park and the difference between Data East and Williams flippers.

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Quoted from accidental:
Hopefully that's it. Are those switches under the playfield or inside the rex? It's pretty tough to work on that part of the playfield underside as it's right at the bottom of the cabinet when fully raised.

Sounds like you may not be making use of all your available playfield positions. Take a look at position 3 of the attached page from the Lost in Space manual. You can do that with Jurassic Park as well.

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