Subject: Re: TECH: Circus Voltaire, Ramp Lockup
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 18:44:20 -0600
From: foxtrot@frii.com (Fox (Mike) Morrey)
Organization: Town Square Madness
Newsgroups: rec.games.pinball

In article <7iscdm$d0i1@WS01IS04.highway.telekom.at>, kollmann@aon.at
says...

> I have a problem with the ramp lockup. There is a bar that releases the
> balls. If he has to release only one ball he takes too much time. So the
> second ball will be jammed to the frame of the rail. Do you know a
> possibility to shorten the release-time?
> Thank you in advance
> Hans
        Several things you can do:

        1. If your game is PROPERLY leveled at 6.5 degrees, and you have
the Update Kit in- more specifically, the spacer unre the middle support
for the ramp- take it out.
        2. With one ball in the lock, bend the 'roof' bar down, so the
balls have very little vertical play between the roof and the ball
guides. (Be careful not to bend too much, the ball will jam under the
lower edge of the 'roof'.)
        3. Adjust your leaf switches. Often, what happens is that the leaf
for the second switch bounces up when the ball rolls off of it, and when
the post raises back up, the ball is pushed back against the raised leaf,
getting jammed. Either replace the leafs with the roller-type, which have
a small roller on them (used in Later Data East ball troughs) or adjust
the leaf, so that rolling a ball up across the switchs BACKWARDS dosn't
catch on any of the leafs. Do this AFTER you've done the top two, as this
could give you problems with switches not actuating, etc..

Me.
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