Rubber Ring Replacement
Jessica and I spent a few hours this weekend installing the new ramp protectors we bought from Cliffy. Well, really it should have taken about 10 minutes, but then we decided to replace a few rubber rings while we were at it. And clean the plastic. And, oh, that area’s pretty dirty! By the end of it we had replaced every single piece of rubber in the pin, cleaned most every bit of plastic, and waxed areas the ball will never hit.
It was exhausting, but worth it, and amazing how different the game is, the ball bouncing all about where it never did before. It bounces tantalizingly on the right and left drains — stay? or go? stay? or go? — before settling into one with a satisfying wiggle. I’m not a very consistent player. I have good games (and streaks) and bad games (and streaks), and the new rubber had set me into a real rut.
Last night, however, I opted to play one game as we were getting ready for bed. The first two balls went pretty quickly, but during the third I managed to score two extra balls. During the fourth I hit the jackpot, which was around 3.6 million, which bumped me up to get another extra ball (above 2.8 million gets an extra ball). The sixth ball swiftly made its way down the center, ending the game, but somehow I’d managed to rack up 6.5 million, bumping Jeff off the High Scores and putting me in the top 3. Jessica wasn’t too pleased (she’s #4 now).
