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Quoted from FatPanda:Did you cover a timeframe for the "legacy" playfields?
I looked around the site yesterday and didn't see anything on that front. I'd like to know this info as well.
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Quoted from leonml:Yes, but that cheap a pf would mean a playfield would be trash in a couple years five or take, of playing and most don't want to rebuild that often. With a more durable pf with clear, perhaps you'd get 4,6, maybe 8 years out of it, and you break that down it's as cheap as swapping out throw away playfields.
I guess you could mylar the cheaper ones with no clear but they don't look as nice and you could get air bubbles.
How long? Playfields started getting cleared in the early 90's and a lot of them still look and play really nicely today. I don't want to spend insane amounts of money on a playfield. I just want replacements to be available when it does come time to replace it, or you find a game that never was waxed or the balls changed. My biggest concern is when that time comes for modern Sterns. They keep a stock of some, but once those are gone, that seems to be it. Same thing with game specific toys and whatnot. It's a long ways out, but I'd be a lot more comfortable knowing that Stern playfields have a future reproduction possibility.
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