Just bought my first pin (finally!) as I have tons of room in the new house, and went with MBRe SE and what a fun/amazing machine/experience! While my wife isn’t really a gamer, outside of pool and some potential interest in MTGA, she did play the pin last night and had a mixture of fun and stress lol. One great thing to come of it was her idea of “let’s not put the TV in the arcade and instead have 8 pins lined up;” music to my ears!

Anyways, my question has to do with the supposedly non-existent magnets, as way early in this thread they were discussed and found not to exist. However, and I may just be ignorant, I see what appears to be magnet activity all the time, especially around the flippers and the CD on the playfield. I can only describe the ball movement as obvious magnet-like deflection as the ball passes through the area at lower speeds. What am I seeing here if not magnets; is it just the coils for the flippers creating some (un)intentional magnetic field? Cheers!

Must be the balls then, but odd it’s so very consistent in which areas of the PF it happens in. It’s a NIB game and just setup yesterday, and everything looks clean as can be expected, but will take a more exacting secondary look. Pitch is at 6.5 and perfectly 0 on the horizontal. I have some tweaks to do though as having issues with balls occasionally getting stuck on both ramps, or flying right out of the mummys ramp, but have read on the fixes for the prior, and hoping some specific bending will also solve the latter.

Which aftermarket balls are ones enjoying these days?

Ninja balls ordered - thanks!

Good point. I didn’t wax it myself but wonder if distributor did when they had glass off to install HD glass. I noticed there was no packing material or ties around any of the toys, when I unboxed; not sure if that is normal or not.

I’ll try to catch the action on video later today.

Nah, NIB. Sounds from other posts that it may just be the fast action and the ball coming off certain toys, which makes sense.

I tried to record a video of it today but not confident I caught the issue on video; only felt it 2-3 times and it was subtle. I’ll just post the video here and if action all seems normal, then it probably is. Cheers!

*Eh, doesn’t look like I can (or don’t see how) to post video here.

Oh I’m a ninja there, was just confirming there wasn’t a native video upload option - cheers for confirming LOL

Forgot where I saw them, as I wasn’t looking for them at the time. Anyone know where to get MB themed cup holders for the leg bolts? Now that I want them, my G-fu skills are failing me.

I remember seeing at least one person, but that was before I noticed it happening to my machine, but noticing a ton of pitting/dimples already in the middle of the pf just below and to the right of Frankie. A bit disappointing only 5 days in, as I'd say I could quite easily count 100+ of the little buggers. Anyone else experiencing this, or did everyone Mylar down that area before playing?

Going to contact CGC and see what they'll do about it, talking to another member on the phone this AM regarding purchasing their pin, sounds like CGC is pretty good about support and may just send out a new pf (THAT would be quite a "first-maintenance" project thrown in my lap). Unfortunately cannot register for the support portal on their damn site, tells me captcha is invalid when I hit submit, even when I get the nice green checkmark on the capcha after clicking their dumb pictures. Oh well, now I contacted support for support to get into support

Geesh, just realized I'm an idiot and your Learn to Google (LTG) at the end of your comment was your damn username/signature... unless

Margaret really is the best in pinball parts; she bent over backwards for me with nary a request, getting out node boards to me, watching for delivery truck, calling me to manually run card when online store wasn’t working, and got them out overnight. Felt like a real team player, on team chickenscratch.