Fuuuuuuudge. (Only I didn’t say fudge. I said the word. The big one...).

This is in a showroom? My brain is spinning about 100 mph. I have a JP2 on order and I don’t have any desire to relive the experience I just went through with JJP on my JJPOTC chipping. This stinks.

I had a clearcoat+art lifting chip on my POTC near the base of a post. I used a small amount of super glue to lay the chip back down and put a neoprene washer under the post. There wasn’t any damage to the playfield wood on mine though. It was just the clear and art lifted up as a chip separating from the wood underneath and the wood underneath was still smooth.

With this JP2 flipper post it seems like it might be a different issue where there is playfield wood damage caused by the loosened post getting hit and bashing into the side of the post hole? If that’s the case then it seems like the post needs to be secured with threadlock and/or a nut, because any time it comes loose and gets bashed into the side of the post hole it’ll probably do the same thing.

Here's where Jack was asked about it at 2019 Expo. Fast forward to 52:25 into the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3174&v=vdNMZ2cjCV0&feature=emb_logo

Here are posts showing what I did and what I used under my apron and one of the ball guides on my JP2. Would be really good if manufacturers put washers under ball guides and aprons when they assemble them.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/welcome-to-the-jurassic-park-le-club/page/17#post-5225712

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/welcome-to-the-jurassic-park-le-club/page/66#post-5328991

You don’t need to take the rail off. All you really need to do is loosen the nut under the playfield holding down the end of the rail. Then if you snip a wedge out of a fiber washer you can just pry the end of the rail up a little bit and use the gap you cut in the washer to slide it under the rail and around the screw. Then just retighten the nut (but not too much).

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/welcome-to-the-jurassic-park-le-club/page/66#post-5328991

I’ve had the game over a year and the balls in mine haven’t worn any faster than in my other games.

Not sure where you “found this out” but in comparing that playfield pic to the playfield in my machine just now it looks the same with art backed away from the posts. Here’s a pic I just took of my own playfield (and yes I recently waxed so there’s some wax buildup at the base of a few posts that I didn’t get off).

I completely swore off JJP games after the crap customer service I had on my POTC so I’m no fan of theirs at all. But I wanted to post this because it seems to me like the idea that there was art removed on prototypes but not on production might not be correct. Even though I won’t buy a JJP game and don’t give a rip about them I felt a fact check might still be in order here.

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Lol, you gotta be kidding me. I just saw @yelobird's post. You swiped his picture and told a story about it without checking it out, and tried to pass it off as you "finding something out" as though you got some inside scoop somewhere? This happens on Pinside way too much with people spreading around other people's pictures and telling stories that aren't their own and that aren't checked out. Again, I'm not a fan of JJP but I am also not a fan of telling someone else's story or spreading their pictures without any reference to the original person or checking out whether or not it's accurate.

So what you posted was inaccurate, and you even had pictures of your own that you could have checked in order to see that what you were about to post was inaccurate? Awesome. I see you've now gone back and removed the pic from your original post and edited that post to remove your statement that JJP removed art from around the posts on prototypes but not on production machines and your conclusion that their whole mess with playfields could have been avoided if they hadn't made that change (the change that didn't happen).