Quoted from snaroff:

My NIB JP2 build quality is great. Approaching 500 plays and the dimpling is minor. PF artwork and inserts all look great.

Quoted from DerGoetz:

JP2LE
terrible graining, looks like ass.
removed apron and did test drops. Craters, not dimples, right away.
i pulled everything needed and install a playfield protector before even the first ball was played.
made the graining almost invisible and no dimples for me.

Quoted from Fytr:

You people do realize that there are existing threads for "dimpling", one going back 9 years!

Quoted from TomGWI:

I really don’t like complaining about Stern. I love their games but this was the playfield I was sent as my replacement playfield. It looks okay in the front. The back looks like the scene from the end of a porn film. There is clear everywhere.
It took 5 months to send me this one. Sure I can sand the back and get the large drops of clear off the back by the shooter lane switch. This is the quality Stern is accepting now?
If I was the Quality Inspector/Director, I would be pretty embarrassed with my product. I am glad the front at least looks okay.
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Quoted from zaki:

dumb question, but you had a bad jp playfiled and they sent you a new one...they expect you to unscrew all the parts and install everything on that wood?

Quoted from Bublehead:

Well, the shit storm I stirred up has no logical basis for an argument. HUO, means, as I used it, it went into my home, for my use only. Now why the arguments have no merit or logical basis is this one fact only- I am not selling this machine, and more specifically, I am not selling this machine to any of you. That said means that I am not representing this machine as HUO to anyone. I have never sold any of my pinball machines. Don’t plan on ever selling this one either. So if I say I bought it after it was used in a tournament (specifically the Chicago Expo 2007 Flip Out Tournament) where it was used in the final match of that tournament, where the top two contestants went head to head on a Family Guy machine... Andy Rosa and Greg Davis... yeah, I bought that one, from Mike Pacak, two minutes after the tournament ended, where it went into my rental truck and I brought it home to Frankfort Ky, where I was living at the time. Since then it has 2822 plays on it, of which 2567 of them I (and my house guests) have put on it in 12 years. It will remain in my home for my use only till they haul me out boots up. Here is a picture of the tournament lineup, care of PinGame Journal.[quoted image]

Quoted from zaki:

dumb question, but you had a bad jp playfiled and they sent you a new one...they expect you to unscrew all the parts and install everything on that wood?

Quoted from zaki:

dumb question, but you had a bad jp playfiled and they sent you a new one...they expect you to unscrew all the parts and install everything on that wood?

Quoted from Jediturtle:

Yes, when people talk about "unpopulated", that is what it means. There is literally nothing but the playfield itself. Everything, top and bottom, needs to be transferred over. Stern used to give out populated playfields when needed, which meant everything was there, just drop it in and hook it up. Unfortunately this past few months they have decided to go unpopulated only in all but a tiny few cases. And quite frankly if Tom's playfield didn't warrant a populated playfield, I'm not sure what does anymore. Please note, this is not just Stern...JJP has been pulling that same crap.

Quoted from floyd1977:

My JP looks like the clear was put on with a brush. Is that what you guys mean by graining?

Quoted from TomGWI:

I really don’t like complaining about Stern. I love their games but this was the playfield I was sent as my replacement playfield. It looks okay in the front. The back looks like the scene from the end of a porn film. There is clear everywhere.
It took 5 months to send me this one. Sure I can sand the back and get the large drops of clear off the back by the shooter lane switch. This is the quality Stern is accepting now?
If I was the Quality Inspector/Director, I would be pretty embarrassed with my product. I am glad the front at least looks okay.
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Quoted from TomGWI:

I really don’t like complaining about Stern. I love their games but this was the playfield I was sent as my replacement playfield. It looks okay in the front. The back looks like the scene from the end of a porn film. There is clear everywhere.
It took 5 months to send me this one. Sure I can sand the back and get the large drops of clear off the back by the shooter lane switch. This is the quality Stern is accepting now?
If I was the Quality Inspector/Director, I would be pretty embarrassed with my product. I am glad the front at least looks okay.
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Quoted from pinballaddicted:

Whatever that is all over the back of the playfield will also be in the back of the inserts making them looked shit when the LEDs are on.. We have some games like that.

Quoted from TomGWI:

I really don’t like complaining about Stern. I love their games but this was the playfield I was sent as my replacement playfield. It looks okay in the front. The back looks like the scene from the end of a porn film. There is clear everywhere.
It took 5 months to send me this one. Sure I can sand the back and get the large drops of clear off the back by the shooter lane switch. This is the quality Stern is accepting now?
If I was the Quality Inspector/Director, I would be pretty embarrassed with my product. I am glad the front at least looks okay.
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Quoted from Rager170:

Why would clearcoat on the back of an insert look bad, when all play fields have clearcoat over the inserts normally? Wouldn't it just be clear like the playfield?

Quoted from Rager170:

Just wanted to chime in. I got my Wonka game over the weekend, build date of late October. No issues.
It was interesting to see a page JJP gives with machines saying how dimpling, ghosting and craze lines and other things of the play field are normal (no mention of pooling).

Quoted from Rager170:

Just wanted to chime in. I got my Wonka game over the weekend, build date of late October. No issues.
It was interesting to see a page JJP gives with machines saying how dimpling, ghosting and craze lines and other things of the play field are normal (no mention of pooling).

Quoted from JodyG:

I guess when the majority of your machines have clearcoat defects, the defective ones become the norm, and perfect ones are abnormal. Congrats on your abnormal machine!

Quoted from chuckwurt:

For what it’s worth, my STH LE looks awesome. Much thicker coat than the pro, no pooping or chipping. From what I understand with that the pooling is immediate and I don’t see any.

Quoted from chuckwurt:

For what it’s worth, my STH LE looks awesome. Much thicker coat than the pro, no pooling or chipping. From what I understand with that the pooling is immediate and I don’t see any.

Quoted from Rager170:

Just wanted to chime in. I got my Wonka game over the weekend, build date of late October. No issues.
It was interesting to see a page JJP gives with machines saying how dimpling, ghosting and craze lines and other things of the play field are normal (no mention of pooling).

Quoted from pinballaddicted:

The clearcoat (or whatever that is on the back of the playfield) over the back of the inserts is small droplets and it make the inserts look like they have small bubbles in them or look crazed. Stern do not use picture mode in the code so it is extremely difficult to snap a photo. I realise that I am fussy and most people do not worry about this at all.
I have not worked out how to get it off yet.. I need to find some time to do a little more research. I want to try some naptha on an old playfield. Novus No1 did not work.
It is no big deal but just another small thing that adds to all the other small things.

Quoted from JodyG:

I guess when the majority of your machines have clearcoat defects, the defective ones become the norm, and perfect ones are abnormal. Congrats on your abnormal machine!

Quoted from 85vett:

I had this on my BOP repo PF. It was one of the first runs and had some touch-ups done. The PF basically had overspray in the inserts. I took a small art paintbrush and some fresh clearcoat and applied it to the bottom of the inserts. It cleared them up perfectly. May be worth a shot for you as well. Start with an insert that's not super visible just in case it doesn't help though.

Quoted from romulusx:

That’s bullshit!Anything after the first run of defective Wonka’s has been perfect as far as I’ve seen,and I’ve been watching closely.Maybe you meant to say Sterns abnormal playfields

Quoted from harryhoudini:

To be fair JJP has had playfield issues from the start, pretty much on every game in some way AFAIK.

Quoted from romulusx:

Well AFAIK the issues started with a portion of the POTC run and continued with the first run of Wonka’s.At this point Jack called up Mirco and said get your shit together or else!

Quoted from romulusx:

Well AFAIK the issues started with a portion of the POTC run and continued with the first run of Wonka’s.At this point Jack called up Mirco and said get your shit together or else!

Quoted from romulusx:

According to Pinside Mirco doesn’t make Stern playfields.And yes a phone call and righteous ass chewing can change bad manufacturing real quick.My uncle Charlie was VP of a finishing company I worked for as a young man.I watched him make calls to vendors and the problems were resolved when new material arrived

Quoted from romulusx:

According to Pinside, Mirco doesn’t make Stern playfields.

Quoted from romulusx:

According to Pinside Mirco doesn’t make Stern playfields.And yes a phone call and righteous ass chewing can change bad manufacturing real quick.My uncle Charlie was VP of a finishing company I worked for as a young man.I watched him make calls to vendors and the problems were resolved when new material arrived

Quoted from littlecammi:

Copied from my post in the Pinball Expo 2019 thread:
Stern tour showed Elvira + JP + SW comic art edition all being assembled. Per our tour guide playfields are cut and routed at Stern, sent out for printing and clear coat, then returned to Stern where they are placed in racks and left for weeks to let the clear cure.
If this information is correct, then no wonder Stern wants to replace as few playfields as possible. The outside vendor would only refund Stern for the printing and clearing cost of defective playfields, and not the cost of the wood playfield itself. To try to salvage a playfield from bad printing or a bad clear coat, Stern would have to sand the top surface and send it out for reprinting and clearing.

Quoted from smalltownguy2:

Pretty sure this issue wasn't resolved with a phone call. I'm fairly certain Mirco got an earful "in person." I have no actual evidence to validate this assertion, but I was told that Jack was "out of the country" when I opened my claim in August. Shortly after he returned, I was called by him personally. I just put two and two together.

Quoted from gjm7777:

I have it on good authority this is actual footage from the Mirco factory around the same time Jack was on his trip.[quoted image]

Quoted from DerGoetz:

That's not him, he would have opened up with a cartwheel to the nuts

Quoted from gjm7777:

I have it on good authority this is actual footage from the Mirco factory around the same time Jack was on his trip.[quoted image]

Quoted from PanzerFreak:

Some comments from Joe Kaminkow on recent playfield quality when asked about it on the Super Awesome Pinball show.

"For those at home in their underwear and in their wife beaters and drinking PBR and bitch in the words of William Shatner get a life"

Quoted from romulusx:

I’ll concede the one on one meeting that’s what you do when you really want to put a boot up someone’s ass!I can hear Jack yelling how his reputation of a quality build just went out the fucking window and you knuckle heads will be replacing playfields

Quoted from PW79:

Man he got us all wrong.
I figure most of us are in front of the fridge @ 2am stoned to the mother fuck'n bone in our underwear eating cold leftover crab rangoons & watching Ancient Aliens whilst surfing pinside.