Officially in the club! Though I have a (VERY ROUGH) galaxy in my shop, pending Quicksilver conversion, I've missed having a classic stern in my lineup since I let loose of my Meteor a while back. Swapped my problematic hardtopped Eight Ball Deluxe for this and cash. I've got some minor adjustments to do and it badly needed the GI redone but it should be a decent player soon.

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It's a solid enough original playfield, but definitely not perfect. It's within the realm of touch up and clearcoat possibility someday in the future, I think. The plastics and backglass are CPR replacements.

I'll probably work on gradually molexing the drop banks and getting it closer to being ready for a teardown someday if I decide to do that.

Pretty pleased with the game thus far, it's a real ass-kicker!

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Yeah, no complaints from me on mine..it's as good as I'd expect from a pin 5 years older than me. Just pointing out it's not perfect

I'm getting BOATLOADS of airballs (and unfortunately left drains following the plastic down) from my left flipper. I know there are resistors that can be wired in, EOS can be gapped wider, coils can be downgraded, etc... what's the consensus in 2022 on what's best? Might as well add some more parts to my next pbl order...

Looks like mine has AQ-25-500/34-500 coils for all four flippers.

Also, my tilt....only kind of works. If I HOLD the bob against the bracket it *might* tilt. Maybe. Sometimes. I really need to sort that out... :/

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Damn, eagle eyes! Yep, I see that wire now. Soldered back in and tilt is good to go. Maybe a bit too sensitive now.... lol. Guess no more slide saves

Ordering some coils, I'll swap those all in when they're here. Might as well rebuild flippers while I'm at it, God only knows when it was done last.

My center drops were sitting a hair low so I shimmed them ever so slightly in order to prevent stuck balls, but other than that they seemed okay to me. Inserts don't seem too out of sorts (although those riptide arrows are slightly raised I believe). I'm going to try all new coils (600 up top, 475 down low) as indicated above and see what happens.

Finally got the top coils swapped over to 600s. Still getting airballs unfortunately. With deflectors no longer being available, what's my next step? Resistors? EOS? Smashing my head into a wall? Haven't swapped my lower 500s to 475s but I don't really expect a lot of difference tbh. Power from the flippers seems fine as is.

Also got my Evos installed. Didn't like the translucent blue caps I bought so I swapped the OGs back in while I look around for something different. Think I may try changing GI over to cool white to see how I like that, I've never been a huge fan of how the cool white underglow of evos contrasts against anything OTHER than cool white GI. My High Speed is a similar deal with warm white GI and Evos and I just don't like the contrast. But imo cool white GI only SOMETIMES works. Witch might be the case where it does.

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I really need to do something about my Galaxy lane guide situation too. It's....sad. these classic sterns are going to be the death of me.

Blue GI?! Noooooooo!!! Gotta stick with the various tones of white!

I keep trying to come up with a reason for you to come visit Tecumseh but man.. there's not much here lol

Haha! Come play em!

I'm sure my pitch is......high. I've got it slammed in the front and pretty sure it's jacked up most/all of the way in the back. Idk, I'll check when I'm home. I just figured it would be best set up aggressive. I can't stand when games play slow and lazy...

Not that I'm entirely certain my phone is accurate buuuuut...it says 7 degrees. The back feet actually aren't as high as I thought they were.

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Cool white looks good. I'll roll with this.

I swapped out some of my (incorrect) star posts with new jeweled ones also.

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https://www.pinballlife.com/britecaps-evo-pop-bumper-lighting.html

Evos are LIFE. I've got them in my Black Knight 2000, Taxi, High Speed, Seawitch, and World Cup Soccer. They're outstanding.

I find that yellow LEDs are almost always a complete bust, in all applications. Much safer to stick with warm white in that case.

I use those same sockets. They're great.

I'll be right over to load up that Star Gazer...

Looks outstanding. I like how your lighting looks bright enough without being too much. I feel like mine is honestly a bit "too much" at times.

Great game, I absolutely adore seawitch.

Pm sent

It's a cruel game lol. I'm not particularly amazing at it either, but I finally knocked off my friend's high score yesterday, albeit only by 2000 (I tilted away my last ball). I love Seawitch though!

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Man I dunno. Granted I haven't played ALL the classic sterns but of the ones I have, I put seawitch up there on the challenge scale. I think the kinda funky geometry lends a hand to it being a challenge. Granted, the objectives are pretty straightforward, I just think putting it all together can be a challenge. The consensus, at least from the novice pinball players around here, is that Seawitch is by far the most challenging game in my lineup.

Girl, you fancy. Nice work.

My buddy Bill was astounded that I successfully cleaned and polished my Galaxy apron without ruining it. He said his success rate is very, very low. Heh. I'll have to make an apron, with this same approach, for Quicksilver.

Has anyone ever tried and been successful with lighting up more of the backglass? It drives me bonkers that half of it just doesn't have bulbs behind it because it's such wonderful art. Just feels like it could (and should) be better.

I'm still mixed on whether or not I want to try to open the orbits any. Part of what makes the game great for me is that those loops are a nightmare to make. It's supposed to be nasty -- and it is.

My P4 display just took a dump while playing and I can't seem to get it sorted.

I don't suppose anyone has a spare 7-digit Bly/Stern display laying around that they'd sell? All I have are 6-digit displays in my shop. D'oh!

That's what she said.

Interesting. Mine has modern hooded replacements and they work fine. No issues with bricking or anything like that. My Meteor on the other hand.... Original tombstones worked great in the 123 banks. They were swapped with modern hooded targets for...some reason...and they were awful. They're much better with the Swinks targets. My Meteor bank is also better although I still have two targets that only like to drop about half (but they register, so it's more just annoyance than anything else). I've rebuilt it multiple times but my results never changed, so I gave up for the time being. The targets work great, it's something else.

Interesting note on the flippers too, I guess I never saw the need to switch away from Stern bats.

Some plastics, a flipper, and toss 'er in any ol Bally/Stern cab and you're in there!

Good point. I guess I didn't realize that.

I'm still planning on building out my Goldeneye frankencab to house Bally/Stern stuff. But it obviously won't accommodate any original glasses since its a DMD cab. HOWEVER it will absolutely accommodate speakers which are front-facing which will be *perfect* for all the games using Arduino-based code and a WavTrigger rather than a SB300 and a down-facing speaker (although I may well cut a hole to integrate an in-cab subwoofer, I haven't decided yet). I've got big plans for that one, but I'm slow-moving on it right now.

Man, I haven't turned my witch on in several days after my P4 display blew up. I suppose I should start trying to get that dealt with. ;|

You KNOW I'm in on this one, PM sent!

Got mine and installed immediately. Love it! No more ridiculous side drains.

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Yes. I bought the yellow.

Mine airballs a LOT from that upper left flipper. If yours doesn't then you probably don't need it. I've played around with various coils and resistors and it doesn't seem to matter in my game. The deflector 100% prevents the dumb left drain.

I have no idea tbh. I've not really messed much with playfield position. The deflector fixed all my issues and my game is a mean-spirited bitch. I'm good with it.

I love my Witch when I'm good at it. But they're are frequent "dunk on me" games, full of house balls, etc. which make me much more mad. Lol

All in all I'd hate to not have it here.

Oh boy. If you started out with Beatles you may haaaaaate the Witch. Good luck! Lmao

I love my Witch. Seems the common complaint is that the geometry is clunky and the loop is hard to hit. There are some modifications you can make to improve on that if you want. The S deflector (scroll up) is absolutely something you should grab just in case you have issues with airballs.

Witch is fast, and simple. And mean.

I love the game, so you won't ever see me in the group of people complaining about it. But it's nowhere near the 'buttery smooth' feel you'll get out of a Beatles. For me, that's part of its charm. The art is a stunner, too.

Quicksilver and Meteor are buttery smooth :p

Easy fix: Meteor 2021 code. Awesome sound package!

Nothing that I'm aware of. I'm pretty okay with both sounds and rules on Seawitch personally. I think it's very well done.

Welcome to the club. Just don't go grab all the ones I want, bud!

This is me with the awful F2K I picked up. Once I know it's in good working shape I can look at potentially swapping, etc.