Ramp mod added to TZ.....

[ALJO]

Hey everyone.
I've been having problems with the ball , when the diverter throws it down on the ramp, NOT rolling down against the ramp wall, it rolls down in the middle and makes the piano shot very hard/unpredictable, in the past few years and I've been thinking about a solution and found it.
First I bought these small magnets in 4 different lengths:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/166511894453?var=466150071185

Then I installed them behind the ramp but found out they were too strong, the ball would get stuck on the ramp, I just removed them and placed them on the top end of the inner ramp as high as possibles so that the pull is present but not too much as to not hold the ball and everything works great, no more "middle ramp ball falls, as soon as the ball diverter activates, the ball stays along the ramp wall and the piano shot is much more predictable, to not say easy because the piano shot is not necessarilly easy.

 

[Chris Bardon]

Interesting-are you doing that in addition to the magnet on the diverter? Usually that one is there to keep the ball from bouncing off the diverter and rolling back up the ramp, but I'd suspect this would also make the drop to the ramp cleaner. I don't recall this being a problem on my TZ, but now I'll have to check.

 

[ALJO]

Yes, it's in addition to the magnet on the diverter, it does'nt make a difference whether there is a magnet on the diverter or not since the diverter magnet is usefull for avoiding ball bounces and nothing else, the ball would still drop in the middle and not stay along the ramp's wall before I added the diverter magnet as well.