Quoted from jimwe5t:This is the most baffling argument in the pinball world, that weight equals quality somehow. That is a very old school way of thinking and I was also caught up in that antiquated thinking until my son pointed out, that a heavy door on an automobile, doesn’t mean it is quality. Today heavy weight in anything mechanical, other than a tank, means it is poorly engineered. Since JJP is such a small boutique pinball maker at best, they can’t afford custom and have to use heavy and bulky old off the shelf pinball parts, instead of custom parts like Stern uses. This along with poorly engineered heavy back box mechanics, heavy PC parts, poor use of tons of wire, poorly engineered layouts, excessive use of posts, etc.
Absolute horseshit.
Ask anyone in engineering about metal parts being replaced with plastic.
Less wiring and full sized transistors in machines does not mean the machines are better. Cheap Chinese PSUs are not better. Removing coils (knocker) is not better. Lighter wood is not better.
Newer Sterns feel like flimsy picnic tables. Give me an old w/b or jjp for WEIGHT any day. The extra effort to move the damned things is with it.