I got AFM LE #21.

It’s the first table I’ve ever purchased and I’ve wanted AFM for over 20 years.

I tell the story of why I wanted it on my show here:

I can confirm that PIC 2.0 is out because it came with it already installed.

Unfortunately the playfield itself still has the well known issues. Ball jumps the ramps. Left popper doesn’t eject like it’s supposed to. And one of my left flipper bolts was missing and the other was so loose the flipper barely worked.

Glad I found this forum (even though I had to pay $5 to post).

I have a lot of reading to do to get my machine to proper working order.

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Popper strength for that one is set to max out of box so I can’t increase it.

I can try turning the flippers down for the ramps. It does seem like they have a lot of power.

The missing bolts I found when I opened up the machine. So my flipper mechanics are sorted.

The seller has been very responsive and helpful but I am in California and they are in the east coast so I need to either get up extremely early or take time off of work to leverage the support.

I’ve learned a lot more about pinball machine repair and maintenance in the last 3 days than I expected I would need day one for a brand new machine.

Still happy I bought one. Just hoping I can get everything sorted while it’s under warranty.

As cool as it is to have a machine in the double digits I have a lot of reading yet to do to figure out all the fixes/tweaks I need to apply to get this up to the latest and greatest. So yeah, I’d say you dodged a bullet.

You are correct. They do.

Got most of my issues sorted. Just some minor cosmetic issues I'm working through with CGC. Ruled the Universe for the first time on Saturday. It was awesome!

Put together a video of the arrival, setup, first plays, and first time ruling the universe on my machine!