Star Tech Journal

STAR* TECH JOURNAL
MELTEC
December 1994
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MOUTH
AIR BALL
SYMPTOM
There seems to be a problem with
some balls not reaching the tar-
get. This only occurs on some
balls and not on all balls.
PROBLEM
The problem lies in that the balls
wear with time and become
somewhat smaller. This allows
the air that is present in the sys-
tem to escape around the balls as
they are shot from the air cham-
ber.
Shoot a couple of rounds of balls
during a game and notice
whether some of the balls fall
short or all of the balls fall short.
The ones that do fall short should
be suspect and should be re-
moved from the game to see if
there is any difference with the
remaining balls.
fall short of the target, you should
then consider checking and ad-
justing the air pressure on the air
chamber to bring up the pressure
to where the balls (be careful of
the settings on the air pressure
indicators) are on target.
CAUTION
If the air pressure has to be set to
a much larger than normal level,
you may have other problems.
Also, if you adjust the air pres-
sure up too high, you could be
causing excessive wear on the
loading chamber and air cylin-
ders.
At several locations, the Sega
shifters have started to wear out.
The first symptom is that the
wires that go to the shifter
switches start to break loose fre-
quently due to the extended mo-
tion of the mechanism allowed by
the loss of metal -due to being
shifted so many times.
PROBLEM/SLOPPY SHIFT
The next symptom is that the
shifter feels sloppy and loose, fol-
lowed by a severe mechanical
breakdown of the shifter mecha-
nism.
NOTE
SOLUTION
This information is also valid for
BoomBall, Shootout and any
other Meltec air game which uses
the Teflon balls.
One owner of the game replaced
his with a comparable Happ Con-
trols shifter as a substitute. The
Happ unit costs considerably less
and it performs as well as the
original -as well as having stur-
dier mechanics than the original.
SEGA VIRTUA
RACER SHIFTER
PROBLEMS
SOLUTION
If there is a difference in the re-
maining balls and they are suc-
cessfully reaching the target, then
you have found the problem. If
the remaining balls still seem to
SOLUTION
PROBLEM!LoosE WIRES
The shifters continually have
loose wires and have started to
show excessive metal wear from
the players' use and abuse.
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