Bram Stoker Dracula - Ball alley fault????

[Marty Machine]

Hi All,

I've been playing my BSD a fair bit recently, still needs some minor attention, but having too much fun playing it rather than fixing it....

at the moment, the MAIN hassle (that really annoys me) is when the ball is ejected into the plunger-lane (ready to start next ball), the ball keeps bouncing back into it's launcher within the apron.
When i look closely, it appears to ball is kicked out and bounces directly off the planger-lane-wall (right side), and immediately back into the kicker solenoid.

Is the solenoid driving too hard? or something is on the wrong angle?, i'm almost about to put a slim strip of damping sponge on the ball-lane, so the ball will hopefully settle and land at the end of the plunger-tip as it should....

The ball kick/bounceback can occur 10 times in a row until one of the kicks finally lands it at the plunger rod.

This doesn't seem to be the opto fault and so on, it actually knows where the ball is, kicks it out, but sadly the ball keeps bouncing back into the solenoid instead of staying in the plunger lane....
This really appears to be more mechanical/alignment issue, instead of electronic fault.

Anyone seen this? fault? other?
MM.

[Homepin]

mine doesn't do it and never has???

Maybe adjustment (IE - bending) of the kickout lever is required???

[Pintoxicated]

I did have the same issue at one stage.  I can't remember if I gave it a subtle tweak i.e. bend or whether I loosened the assembly under the playfield and moved it a touch to change the direction of the ball travel.  It hasn't done it since though so it should be an easy fix.  It only needed to move a mm for it to be enough to stop the problem.

[ktm450]

I had the same issue with my HS2, a little tweaking of the guide above so it gives the ball a little spin, fixed the problem. 
I also cut a couple of thin (3-4mm wide) strips of mylar and sat them across so the ball would not roll back in.

[Marty Machine]

Thanx Guys,

I'll rip the glass off over the weekend, and look into bending/re-positioning whatever's needed.

MM.

[Homepin]

May as well replace the mist control board while you are at it before it gives trouble:

http://www.homepin.com/bsd.html

 

[Marty Machine]

May as well replace the mist control board while you are at it before it gives trouble:
http://www.homepin.com/bsd.html
 

Cool, great idea.......just waiting for my sample to arrive 

MM

[Homepin]

May as well replace the mist control board while you are at it before it gives trouble:
http://www.homepin.com/bsd.html
 

Cool, great idea.......just waiting for my sample to arrive 

MM

No problem - sample price is + 20% as they are personally hand built and calibrated 

[Marty Machine]

May as well replace the mist control board while you are at it before it gives trouble:
http://www.homepin.com/bsd.html
 

Cool, great idea.......just waiting for my sample to arrive 
MM

No problem - sample price is + 20% as they are personally hand built and calibrated 

I'll take 20% off, i don't know where those hands have been