New Member here. I'm buying a friend's ES and it's a beauty with new ramps, Moving building kit, new plastics, and the top header.

Getting it tonight.

I'll send pics after it's home.

Here's a couple of pics of the ES I just got from one of my best friends:

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Funny that you say that the Basement Arcade mod is different since we tested next to a real original one and they worked the same. It's possible that in the last 13 years of making them, that we sourced with a faster motor along the way, but that can easily be adjusted with a resistor if someone wanted to slow it down (not exactly sure why you would want to though). And one piece of advice, printed parts are not going to work as well as what we use. I guess you'll figure that out though.

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PS - Sorry if it sounds sarcastic - I feel like I need to defend our product since we were the only one to try it for all of these years. We still make more from time to time.

Replace the pins on the board with new. Use Trifurcon pins on new connectors and your problem is solved forever. I replaced the connector pins on my Doctor Who back in the 90's with regular pins and never did the board and 2 years ago I had to do it right.