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Is your Stern ghosting / crazing / insert lifting / other ?

By flashinstinct

7 years ago


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#265 7 years ago

Met Premium - no issues
IM VE - no issues
ST Premium - no issues
GOT premium - no issues
GB LE (jun 20-2016) - about 120 games, LOTS of dimples, surely because this game has the most amount of airballs I have ever seen, ghosting is starting on 2 inserts, if it was possible to lower the coil power (coil power in the menu already is on soft but seems to have no effect) then it would play a lot better and probably cause less damage to the playfield, even the autoplunger sends the ball into the backboard or into puff, balls from the plunger that hit a target, bounce off so hard they will fly anyywhere, against the glass or plastics or side of the cabinet, directly into the outlane or shooter lane, on top of the buildings, into the subway etc.
Direct balls from the flippers even hit the rail above the playfield which causes metalflakes to jump off.

Originally ordered a premium but because of a cancellation the LE came available, bit of a risk after hearing the stories, but I mostly buy a pin for playing and not just for watching, of course it does hurt when your playfield is falling apart and you see the euros wash away....

When I got it, I only had to adjust one switch, and had to remove a lot of pieces of black plastic from the cabinet (looked like broken parts but could not find any damage or from what they should have broken off) and slimer is dragging against the building and the black plate right to the ghost target (any way to raise it a bit??) but that's about it, although sometimes very unforgiving, the game is really a lot of fun, everything looks and sounds great, so no regrets so far.

#267 7 years ago
Quoted from embryon:

The black plastic is from the playfield glass channelling. You probably noticed it was or is difficult removing and reinserting the glass. I think Stern made it this way so the glass didn't rattle too much when the shaker vibrated??? Anyway sometimes when reinserting the glass, it would shave the plastic channel and eventually that would fall onto the playfield. You may notice some curled and attached to channel waiting to be torn off next time the glass is removed.

mmm that might be, I'll check it next time opening, and indeed the glass is hard to get out or put back in...
But the plastic parts that I found where on the bottom and looked like in the picture, I can't imagine that's only shavings, even some metal part that looked like a broken magnet or something fell out of the box when opening....

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1 month later
#524 7 years ago

Today 3rd insert (light extra ball) started ghosting and the clear on the shooter lane is cracking, 300 games played...not happy

#531 7 years ago
Quoted from robotron:

so how many of you lemon edition getting 2 balls ? mine does it very often, can anybody tell me if they had this issue and a fix? i have to say this is the worst 8k i ever spent in my life!! i think i am gonna take a hit and put it up for sale soon.

Had this a lot too on my Metallica, found out that the switch in the shooter lane was not adjusted properly, when the ball was launched from the through in the shooter lane the switch got activated for a second but then when the ball lies there, the switch was not activated anymore, so it launched another ball in there. After re-adjusting the switch it never happened again.

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