no ghosting here anywhere. Over 200 games in. No wear on the shooter lane either.

I don't know the date, tried looking for a stamp, but there isn't one on the edge of the field.

you don't need the lane kit. Knock the rails up 1/4" with a drill bit and a hammer. Takes like 3 min, and not only fixes the jump over, but reduces your outlane drains by 30%

I know they are fixed. It could be leftovers from before. I have one of the first of the new playfields and I dont' have a speck of ghosting.

you talking about the left side or right side rail on the ramp? The one holding the blue rubber or the wall side? how to you find a shorter version?

I did this as well. I explained it in my solution. I lowered the hex about 1/4" and attached the exit of the ramp, under the plastic and washer so that was lowered as well. Have no problems with the exiting. Actually might be exiting to fast, because sometimes it gets spin on it when it exits, and goes upwards. I wanted to find a way to shorten, the blue rubber side. this would increase the entry point a lot. I may trim my blue rubber down by half. Would allow a much better angle for the shot. They should have just rotated the ramp slightly clockwise about 2 degrees more and the entry point would have been much more natural.

you can't really pull to the left with the blue rubber section. Because then your loop will be messed up. right now, balls coming down that side out of the pops, or from slow shots, barely catch the tip of the flipper already. If you move that wall out even more, everything from that orbit will just go down the middle. No room to play there.

that's Toonces. And we all know why he's a ghost.

because we live like an hour away from the stern factory and people that work there, are all interconnected around here.

If you want to be in the know, you have to be over here. Not way over there in, "my balls are draggin in the sand because it's so hot AZ".

i was told playfield issues were resolved and I still don't have any ghosting going on. I think i'm in about the 500 game threshold right now.

not at all.

my field says 9.8 on it. Still don't have a speck of ghosting. I think it depends on who made your field.

please, cracking in the shooter lane? Then you better sell all your machines because any game with clear on it, will crack in the shooter lane no matter what. TZ, TAF, CFTBL all of them crack in the shooter lanes. They all get ground in dirt and it's ware and tear. It's going to happen. What's the point on owning a car if it's just going to sit in the garage. If it bothers you 20 years from now, have the playfield restored. It will need it anyway, because inserts will shift and raise anyway.

it's the type of ball feed system that effects that. How the ball is brought into play has a lot to do with the damage done. WPC95 games don't fire the ball all that hard up the system. The way they are setup, the shooter lanes usually don't get that worn out. Sometimes they do, but usually the through is bent or misadjusted. I have to repair and restore a lot more WPC shooter lanes than WPC95.

I think the biggest issue is that people think that their game will look like it has more gameplay than it really does, as the shooter lane takes such a beating early in it's life. But really doesn't effect anything, and 7 and 8 years ago, people didn't even ask about the shooter lane. Collectors didn't give a shit and it was secondary. Collector market has become more anal about stuff that really doesn't mean shit in the grand scheme of things. Back in the day, you were happy if all the plastics were there, and only 1 was cracked. That a playfield wasn't worn beyond the edges of the inserts and the cabinet still had red or orange still in it.

remember, those are white star games. different setup in the ball feed system. Spike and SAM systems I think are harder on the playfield on how they extrude the ball.

I don't think they are. My LOTR doesn't have chipping or crushed in the shooter lane but my AC/DC and TF do. I think the system is different. The ball fires hardcore on my SAM systems ,and not so much on my whitestar games. I think the top of the exit has changed. Where it's directing the ball more up and then downward instead of out to the wall.

if you want the good prices, you have to pick up yourself.