Put me down for two - already told my buddy he has to purchase one also - have to support those who support the hobby!

Also trying to notify our local Florida group about this topic.

And tell Kerry to offer ramp customers the stainless 5-target lift plate as a combo purchase!!!

Everyone needs to inspect their target lift plate. I am the person that worked with Kerry to template, build and test the plate. The original aluminum plate gets chewed up from the leveling screws. A 1/16" makes the difference as to whether your PF gets chewed up behind targets that drop too low or not.

Axl, how long would Kerry need to hang on the the ramp?

Thank you for the project contribution. I was going to offer my ramp, as my machine is down right now anyway -- just received wireforms back from Chestnut, just received all new plastics from Australia, plastics scanned and waiting on PETG protectors from Pinbits, and still waiting on Cliffy to template the NOS playfield we sent him for protectors.... Needless to say, my machine is taken apart right now....

Mike,
Once Kerry templates the original ramp, he'll be able to make you one, even if you miss out in the initial order. I would imagine that the goal of 10 orders was to get him motivated. I'd expect his initial run to be 2 or 3 time that so he should have inventory on hand.

Wondering if anyone else has noticed a divot to the ramp diverter when they went to install the ramp... The soft metal diverter on my machine seems to be taking a bit of a hit on the edge of the ramp. See pictures. Wondering if anyone else has noticed this? Perhaps approach Kerry to make us a stronger SS diverter.

between the target lift plate, ramp and now the diverter, this machine can be preserved... if we use stronger SS materials.

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So, I just pitched the idea of fabricating a stainless diverter to Kerry, thinking it would be nice to bundle with the ramp.

I was shocked when he told me that of the 10+ people who all committed to the pre-order to get him to build the ramp, that he ultimately only received a total of 4 orders. Heck, I committed to ordering two ramps and gave one to a friend.

Kerry told me that because of this, he's rather turned off on any future PM projects...

This is real disappointing to hear. Kerry is a hobbyist just like us and without him, our hobby suffers. I'd hope that anyone who didn't fulfill their obligation to purchase would step-up and do what's right...

-Brian