Another tron unboxing thread

[MadocOwain]

I'm loving it. I'm really glad that I did this. That being said, I have had a few problems with it. Noisy recognizer motor, I had a pop bumper go ape$#it (going off randomly), and somehow my wife managed to do this:

Mine does this often as well. Sucks, what can be done to rectify?

Balls are also getting launched over the playfield and into the far top-right of the playfield, above the actual field, behind a couple of artwork support posts. Thinking of trying to put some wire or something up there to bounce the ball back down to the playfield again - happens when shooting the ball during multi-balls.

 

[AUSyTyIN]

I pulled the tension on the front side, so I'm hoping that will work. My only other though is getting the next size down. I've actually twice had it pop the rubber over the kicker mechinasism.

I'm thinking part of the problem is if the ball has back spin when it hits, which lifts the rubber up over it.

I've actually had a ball launch from the spinner onto the left one of bumpers (not sure what they are called, actually), off the glass, and it landed at the ball launcher. I haven't had one launch to the upper playfield yet though. I've also has a ball shoot out of the spinner, hit another ball, and slam into the glass (again, probably from a $#it ton of english on the ball). I was about to clean my spinner so it would really wing them out, but not after I've had these instances. Has a ball ever broke the glass on a pin?

 

[Frax]

Im pretty sure its next to impossible. The balls in my Shuttle were poinding the crap out of the glass until I flipped two cone bumpers last week. Its scratched quite a bit from prior owners...

Im sure someone will shoot me down in about five minutes.

 

[Fattrain]

I was able to get the ball stuck similar to that behind my TRON Drop Targets.... Happened once on day 1 or 2 and never had an issue since.... The rubbers and everything else get settled in over time...

 

[AUSyTyIN]

My buddy managed to get it stuck in the recognizer spinner after the targets were raised. I'm thinking he just shot it up there arty the wrong time, and it bounced around long enough for the targets to trap it in there. The system automatically lowered them after a bit, so I didn't have to pull the glass again

 

[Fattrain]

The ball getting stuck in the recognizer once the gate raises is fairly common...

It happens when you finish a mode that requires the disc shot so the target bank is down... When that mode ends, if you shoot it right in there before the gate lifts then it will be trapped after it lifts.

Ball search activates after 5-10 seconds

 

[AUSyTyIN]

Yeah, I wasn't worried about that one. It just chuckled and told him to wait a second. Heck, I was playing two days ago, and I was just barely tapping the ball, and it literally wasn't hitting anything for so long that it tried to search for the ball. I was a bit embarrassed.

I have had both bumpers get the kick arm (or whatever it's called) pop over onto the wrong side of the rubber too.

 

[back2the80s]

I have less than 100 plays on mine and the problem I'm having is when I play a game mainly in the middle of a game when I'm getting a great score and I drain a ball the game just sits and doesn't do anything like start a new ball in the right plunger lane? a few seconds it kicks all the bumpers and flippers as the game is trying to search for the ball and it's supposed to start another ball and it doesn't? Sucks because I have to turn the machine off and start a new game done this to me like 5 times thinking about calling Stern about this problem?

 

[treborlicec]

I have less than 100 plays on mine and the problem I'm having is when I play a game mainly in the middle of a game when I'm getting a great score and I drain a ball the game just sits and doesn't do anything like start a new ball in the right plunger lane? a few seconds it kicks all the bumpers and flippers as the game is trying to search for the ball and it's supposed to start another ball and it doesn't? Sucks because I have to turn the machine off and start a new game done this to me like 5 times thinking about calling Stern about this problem?

Sounds like the game does not recognize that you drained. I'd check the trough optics first. That is, I mean on a game that was out of warranty. Call Stern and see what they think.

 

[LUCKYMAN]

awsome man.. now this is from BEST BUY?? how long did it take you to get it after you paid for it??

 

[back2the80s]

Sounds like the game does not recognize that you drained. I'd check the trough optics first. That is, I mean on a game that was out of warranty. Call Stern and see what they think.

I was thinking the same a bad optic hopefully I can get it replaced from Stern thanks for the advise.

 

[AUSyTyIN]

awsome man.. now this is from BEST BUY?? how long did it take you to get it after you paid for it??

5 days, with a weekend in the middle