Looking good Willie!

I'm as honest a guy as they come... but there is no way I would pay for that auction, better to just take the negative feedback. If there were multiple bidders he can relist it and still make money, sounds fishy anyways..

Seriously, the guy should feel bad for even asking for that much when he knows full well there are ramps out there for $60.

Just joined the club! Bought Pinwillies WCS94 at PAGG this weekend and it is the nicest one I have ever seen!

If I have but one disappointment its that I did not realize how loud the ball is when you have it in a small room in your home and not playing it on location. Waiting to hear back from him if he lubed the gearbox and motor yet, if not I will try that. I also might try using the cork tape someone mentioned on page one of this thread. Anyone else done anything to quiet their ball a bit? Anyone disabled the ball altogether? I did not see anything in the adjustment menus that lets you do that. I know that's blasphemy, but may be an option.

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I was looking at new motors on marcos website today, but hearing you say that make me think twice.

This was the tip I saw about the tape quoted from page 2 "I wrapped my gearbox in cork insulation tape. I did this while it was removed from the playfield.
The tape is black and self sticking. I made a huge ball a round the gearbox and some of the motor.
I quieted it down some."

sounds like it could work, thats all the info there was though and its from almost a year ago.

I just got my WCS so I haven't taken a real close look at the motor yet, but if someone wrapped it in a big ball of tape, couldn't you get some foam and wrap it around the the motor, then wrap in tape? that way at least you are not putting sticky tape directly on the motor. How hot does the motor get? Just spitballing ideas.

let me know your results, I played it more tonight and already I am noticing it less, I think it was just so new to me that I really noticed it.

Nice! Thanks for getting back to me. Great results and nice to know you are an industrial technician so you have some prior knowledge. I am going to look into this and test some stuff out, but may take me a couple of weeks to report back, but I will. I am thinking some kind of foam, something used in the recording industry for sound and maybe just wrap it and use zip ties, still need to open it up and really look at the motor, but since I have only had it a few days any free time has been spent playing it.

I thought about that too, hate the thought of drilling holes in a playfield, but may be an option.

Got to the world cup multiball for the first time last night and that is one exciting multiball! This game is staying for quite a while, that was such an adrenaline rush! I love the way the flippers die at the end, such a great touch!

Yeah I will try that next time, I was so excited I just kept plunging them. It was so fast I was not paying attention. During the game against Germany, is the goal always lit or do you need to shoot a ramp to relight it like in regular multiball?

I believe thats there for a two (or more) player game. So if you lock the ball as player one it stays there, and if player two locks a ball behind it, the first one drops down instead of a new ball going to the shooter lane, and it catches the second one in a sense creating a new locked ball.

This guy... one of the best in the hobby.

Damn, I swore it was the guy who did the announcing on SNL. Been telling my guests the wrong info.

Ok guys, have a small issue with mine I recently noticed.

Sometimes, but not always, as shot to the goal is awarding the Striker award. Any tips on what I should look at first?

This machine was SUPER clean when I got it (huge props to pinwillie!), the nicest I have ever seen. Because of that I have not done much tinkering on it and haven't looked under the playfield too closely.

Ahhhhhh that would be great news as it means I don't need to fix it. I will monitor it more closely.

Thanks for the further clarification, I was the one who wondered if I had a problem.

I plan to go home and pay further attention, didn't realize that the goal was supposed to award "striker" at all. Like I said it only happens sometimes, and since I play multiple games in a row usually, I probably haven't paid close enough attention that there is a good chance that it happens once per game as designed.

I will say that the goal is scored every time when lit, and when it's not lit I get the correct video on the DMD and I have no problems with that.

Excellent further clarification. I didn't have time to look at mine last night, but plan on doing so this weekend.

Also didn't know this and wondered about it. But I figured in this case it was built into the software, but great to firmly know why it happens. I am usually good enough to get multiball before ball three so it seldom happens when I play, but that will be great to point out to guests that come over and are not as good a player as me.

And there you have it. After playing last night I was able to see that my machine is behaving 100% normally.

Thanks everyone!

is it different than other games? Is this your first? I can look at mine later but on every apron I have ever removed you want to lift the playfield up a little (maybe put a rolled up rag between it and the cabinet) and you will see two screws right on the edge of the playfield. Then you need to push the apron up toward the backbox, there are two little tabs on the apron that are under brackets. look in the attached picture to the left, above the cross hairs on the playfield, thats one of the metal brackets that the apron tabs are under.

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Dont all the suppliers let you buy rings separately? I dont think I have ever bought a kit. I think you are out of luck as far as going down to the local hardware store to get a rubber ring.

If no one answers I will take a look later when I can.

Great, now say what it was in case others have the same problem later and they come looking in this thread.

I also have never gotten a ball stuck there.

forgive me if this was covered in the 33 other pages.

I plan on taking my WCS to a show in a few weeks and I have a concern. Whenever I have guests over it bugs me if someone stops playing mid game and the soccer ball just spins endlessly. At home though I can pop open the door and reset the game, wont be able to do that at a show. Is this potentially damaging or should I not worry? Is there a way to put it on a timer so if no switches get hit it turns off?

Also, how do you remove the extra ball button mech? mine is sticking and I need to take it apart and trouble shoot it.

And honestly I know that, and know how silly that sounded. Hell, I BOUGHT the damn game after it had been at the same show all weekend last year with the ball spinning like crazy. Its just my baby, by far the nicest pin I have ever owned.

Will take another look, I looked at that damn thing for half an hour a couple weeks ago and couldnt figure out for the life of me what the hell unscrewed on that.

Big help, thank you

The score cards on mine are nice, probably from pinball rebel, will have to ask my friend and get back to you all.

My buddy confirmed mine are from there.