Ghostbusters (LE)
Stern, 2016
Ghostbusters (Premium)
Stern, 2016You're currently viewing posts by Pinsider extremepinball.
Click here to go back to viewing the entire thread.
Quoted from Manimal:I appreciate your attitude. If it is just the shooter lane that is chipping, you can sand that part down and re-clear yourself without having to strip the whole playfield. I've done it on a couple of old Williams games. Whatever you decide to do, good luck
The shooter lane is THAT chipped after 20 (twenty) games. Sanding and re-clearing that small section does nothing for the entire rest of the playfield which also has defective clear coat.
Quoted from xfassa:Here is the chipping that occurred on my playfield within 20 plays. Honestly, it hasn't been played a whole lot but I imagine it will only get worse with play. As you can see, there is a big chip and below it is lifted. I see similar lifting at the drain hole.
Quoted from xfassa:I am not starting this thread to create endless debates about Stern quality.
So, knowing what you know, I trust that you've already sent them even more money for a BM66 and an AS. Or, did you actually learn from this experience?
Quoted from playernumber4:Being that so much clear is peeling off these playfields they will have to be sanded right down to the color to get rid of ALL the inferior material with the adhesion problem. I cannot imagine how you could remove only the clear without removing some of the color for the artwork.
When most playfields are recleared they simply sand down the clear to get a good smooth surface and then work up the coats from there with additional sanding and reclearing until the desired effect is obtained. You are in a completely different world of playfield work because you have to get every bit of that defective clear off. I don't see how it can be done without being prepared to repair artwork after the sanding.
I understand your motives....but they should be covering it and once you start sanding on that playfield you void any future warranty coverage should they ever decide that refusing to fix these playfields is harming their sales.
How dare you bring logic, based on facts, into this discussion. 
Everybody already knows that a light sanding and a little fresh clear coat on top will correct adhesion problems all the way down to the original playfield surface. This strategy works especially well on spot repairs. 
Quoted from vid1900:I put a new clearcoat on my TRONLE and my KISSLE; and there was nothing wrong with either of them.
Perhaps you should re-read the exact sentence that YOU wrote, specifically....."there was nothing wrong with either of them". Even you must understand that this is a completely different situation. There unquestionably IS SOMETHING WRONG with the original clear coat.
You're currently viewing posts by Pinsider extremepinball.
Click here to go back to viewing the entire thread.
Wanna join the discussion? Please sign in to reply to this topic.
Great to see you're enjoying Pinside! Did you know Pinside is able to run without any 3rd-party banners or ads, thanks to the support from our visitors? Please consider a donation to Pinside and get anext to your username to show for it! Or better yet, subscribe to Pinside+!
This page was printed from https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/ghostbusters-le-playfield-restoration-begins?tu=extremepinball and we tried optimising it for printing. Some page elements may have been deliberately hidden.
Scan the QR code on the left to jump to the URL this document was printed from.
Las Vegas, NV