Clear tends to chip along the insert edges to create the classic "insert wear" that we see in Williams WPC games.

Ghosting does not mean that the inserts will sink or lift, just that the clear is pulling away from the face of the inserts.

Could go either way.

It could stop lifting, or it could chip around the edges.

Or both

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I'm sure it won't be the last, either.

I can usually find a little bit of ghosting on any clearcoated playfield somewhere; it just sucks when it happens on such a new game.

The plastic and the wood expand and contract at 2 different rates. The poor clearcoat gets caught in the middle.

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One week will probably not matter in the overall scheme of things.

Those playfields were produced months before assembly; and if they came from Germany, then many months have passed before assembly.

Some owners paid extra for what would have occurred over time for free.

Best thing you can do is keep the game in a stable climate, both temp AND humidity.

The only games that can't get ghosted inserts are games that don't have a clearcoat on them.

You don't see any ghosting on Orbitor, Elektra or New Canasta

Every game since Funhouse will probably have some ghosting somewhere.

Stern's clearcoats are the best they have ever been right now.

Games used to be left on 24/7 all the time.

But if a flasher transistor shorts on, the heat can melt plastics in a short period - long before the bulb burns out.