How loose is your machine?

**dishpan** · 04-05-2006, 05:20 AM

I seem to recall reading somewhere that in the Parlors, the balls hit the Go/Start pocket once every 30 seconds on average. I am curious to know if anyone knows wether that statement may be true, and secondly, what are your machines doing? If you adjust your own nails, what do you set them to? It seems to me that the averaged "number of seconds between starts" seems a reasonable way to measure this.

I've adjusted my machines to be in a state of almost continuous Spins/Starts after adjusting the shooter to the sweet spot(s). I've also adjusted the other pockets to pay out in total approximately equally to the quantity of used shooter balls. In this manor I will have run out of reward balls at about the same time that i've run out of shooter balls. (No cyclic action for me. Playing with the balls is an important part of my playing experience; and before you ask, I shave my palms!)

**drcrippen324** · 04-05-2006, 07:29 AM

ajusted the nails so they are quite open over the start claw but not to friendly over the payout pockets as i got fedu pwith filling the payout hopper id rather try and keep as mutch up there as i can for the bonus rounds

will alter them though when i get it cased and i can hold more balls above the hopper

**slotter** · 04-05-2006, 10:47 AM

It depends on the game, too... a couple of my machines are easy to keep in continuous mode. I have the nails adjusted basically straight out over the Start and still am able to keep continous. That doesn't mean that the machines are easy to get into bonus, though.

As far as the ball-reward pockets, I have them ever-so-slightly open from straight. In general, 600 balls starting out in the tray to play will end up being about 1000 balls to reload (after receiving the reward balls).

**arbycoffee** · 02-09-2007, 08:22 AM

I open all Nails up stright, as they come basicly from factory. Than depending on the buyer and if they got children (besides themselfs

), I loose the start pocket and open up a payoff pocket on the left bottom.

**slothappy144** · 02-09-2007, 05:01 PM

the Julie has 2 starts and they run (start pocket hits) almost constantly at Metz's very loose. Star wars is loose as well. Vicki is a different animal much harder to get a start on.