I picked up this game on Friday and I have to say, what a really great game, nice suprise. A lot of cool shots, great interaction and just flat out fun to play. I had a bad switch, which I replaced and had to rebuild a gi connector, but it's in good shape overall, no pf wear. I have a crack in the left ramp at the inlane mount, the translite has a lot of touch ups and one cracked plastic. Where can I find a ramp and translite? They seem unobtanium or prohibitively expensive, at least for the translight...$160 shipped from Australia. I found the cracked plastic from Bay area for $7.

In the process of adding leds, the game was very dim with incandescents. How to you get to the lights insite the reel?

I cleaned the subway underneath, what a mess, and I'm going to flame polish the ramps without decals and shop the rest of it. It will clean up really nice.

Are head decals available? Head is banged up a bit with touch ups and scrapes.

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Thanks for the tip on the center ramp, I was going to flame it tonight. I'll give it a good cleaning instead.

The stepper mechanism seems to move, well, in steps. Assume it's designed that way? Rises halfway, then all the way.

Translite is $155 from Australia, how can it be they are the only ones that have it. Shipping is $30. I may break down and get it since mine is destroyed, but man that's expensive for a game in this price range.

Yes, seems to move half way up, I make a few shots up the ramp, then it goes all the way up,hit the targets a few times and then it drops all the way down.

Are there only supposed to be two positions, all the way up and all the way down? Thoughts on what the issue might be?

Ok, thx. Read somewhere an earlier version of the code caused some issues so I'll make sure I have the latest rom in the game.

Fixed the 3-bank targets. Both motor and targets were loose, holes stripped for target bank so had to use thicker screws, tight now.

Started shopping it a bit took off center ramp, still pretty rough, but not a whole lot more I can do. Cleaned and flame polished the right ramp, came out nice. Right ramp has a decal all along it so can't do too much except clean ithe. Very easy game to work on.

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Got my game all shopped out, plays great, lot of fun. Added a few led accent strips, purple along the back, white in the trough. I have a new translight coming in, this one is trashed.

Now I need to read the rules to figure out what ia going on.

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I notice the ball gate coming out of the shooter lane is busted. Can't seem to locate one, Marco says out of stock. Anyone have an extra? Part number is a-20431 for the assembly or 12-7297 for the wire part.

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Made some target decals...not good to have ocd and own pinball machines.

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I was waiting for someone to say that, I didn't realize it til I saw the pics, too late, the decals don't come off so easy.

I'm getting a lot of airballs shooting the telephone? Is this common? Any adjustments to make? The plastic just under the telephone is slightly cracked, I assume from the air balls.

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Is the plastic cover over the slot reels flush? If it's not, you will get airballs and that will hinder the ball from going where it should. Check that the elevator is also flush. This is the reason there are always cracked plastics on the game.

To adjust is pretty simple, but you will need to remove the motor. Once the motor is out, there are adjustment screws for the plastic cover.

Game is a lot of fun, has a nice rule set and gimmicks as well as some very nice light shows. I just found the game to have too much stop and go.