I love the hammer lock effect. I have the new magnet board which has helped. However I would say every 30 or 40 plays the hammer does the phantom lock. The funny thing is the phantom locks now happen even when the ball was nowhere near the magnet... Kind of like it was with the old magnet board. I get the ones where it rolls over and the magnet misses the ball for a phantom hit but when the ball is nowhere near it? I don't get that one and it does have scary memories of the old magnet board where the hammer was just going off randomly it seemed.

Yes my replacement board worked great when first installed. Seemed when 1.51 upgraded the phantom hits came back. However not nearly as bad as with the old board. All in all I have no complains about the hammer right now. A phantom hit every 30-40 games is bearable. However are the phantom hits coming more often? I hope not. How long will Stern agree to fix these kind of issues? My new drop target assembly worked great for the first month... Then started not going down when hit. I tightened the spring and that helped for 40 games but now today the first target did not drop again. Also I have never seen a machine destroy pinball like this... Mine look like they have been chewed by and animal... Is that from hitting the hammer plate then?