The Village BBS
Florida Arcade and Pinball Collectors => Buy/Sell/Trade/Auction => Topic started by: Turboderf on March 14, 2011, 09:58:18 AM
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At times when the ball hits the ramp with some speed ball comes around by the VW bus at the S turn the ball will jump the track sometimes the ball will go back into play other times ball will drain can this be fixed or i need to just live with it thanks for your help
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ill come over tonight and check it out for you.
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Do you own my old Junkyard or did you just use one of my pictures? I fixed two issues like this before. One on my BSD and one on khabbi's LOTR's. On the LOTR'S, the problem was on the inverted ramp that kicks the ball straight up out of the playfield and 180's it into the left ramp. Kind of looks like a candy cane shape. I slowed the balls down by putting a strip of Velcro (the fuzzy piece) up inside the 180 curve. It can't be seen and instantly solved the issue 100%. the fix I did on BSD was on the diverter. Same fix applied and solved the issue. The only thing is, you can see the Velcro strip on BSD. You hardly notice it though. You can use black, white or even silver Velcro to blend it. I cut the piece to the measurement of the metal diverter plate so it looks like it belongs there. It doesn't look bad at all and it is a permanent fix to your problem. The Velcro just slows the ball down enough to eliminate the problem. I am not sure if this fix will apply to your Junkyard. Good luck!
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When I had junkyard, I had this too. I tinkered with the leveling, more so on the right side, with raising the back. It made the shot a little more challenging, and the ball only dropped very infrequently.
The velcro should work. and I have heard of people placing dot size rare earth magnets strategically.
Art
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Creature this junk yard came from herman i did use one of your pics i like the VW bus. looks like it had mods ...Iam just checking if theres a esay fix for the problem i have tryed to shim the rail but it stills want to jump track at times if i can slow the ball down that would fix the problem its not so back if the ball jump and stays in play but when it drains it sucks i will try some velcro on the back side on the ramp let you know what happend thanks fred
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try the velcro and ill come over after i get off work and check it out. i cant wait to get some time on a junkyard again. good game for sure.
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sure eric call me later thanks man
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I use the Velcro on the side walls, not the bottom of the track. I am not sure if the area your talking about is a wire form. I don't know if it will work if it's a wire form.
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well i put a strip of velcro on the back side of the ramp to try to slow the ball down played for about 2 hours an ball did not jump the rail maybe we fixed it Thanks for the help