Thanks for sharing Chris!
Always an education watching and seeing your work

Especially nice as I have just recently picked up an IPB MM playfield!!!

Chris, what diameter dowel were you using to illustrate the shooter lane fit? I'm assuming that wrapping some sandpaper around that sucker to re-shape it would do the trick?

Now that's an awesome Christmas present to pinheads. Thanks Chris

WOW!!!

HUGE thanks for sharing!!!

Awesome, I'm pretty sure that's my NOS Paragon playfield.

Christopher,
Always good stuff... but upload video to atleast 720p next time for better resolution

HEP,

when you end up getting a Mirco pf for MM, would you mind letting us know of any issues with it and what your overall opinions are of the differences are?

When I looked at the Mirco ones with my noob eyes, they looked much nicer and the first thing I noticed was that the shooter lane appeared correct.

thanks again! already looking forward to other videos.

Man, you talk about enlightening stuff! It's really great that we have these new repro PFs obviously, but they certainly aren't perfect, so sending them to Chris for the corrections makes a ton of sense. How many people would have realized that the shooter lane on the MB repro isn't right?

Thanks for sharing Chris!

Great! Always good to see all the modification needed to get everything working perfect. I thought fitting the MB creech window was cool and then you took the wooden dowel w/ sandpaper to the shooter lane I started to cring!

But then I remembered I was watching a pro... :-p

Great videos. I hope you post an episode on any issues with CPR's TOTAN pfs after they release them in mid-2013. As a novice having never performed a pf swap, I would be very hesitant to drill and dremel away on a new pf. Do you accept repro pfs to make corrections only? My guess is that it wouldn't be worth your time, but the answer is no if you don't ask, right?

ladies and gentleman thats what 5k worth of nos es pf's look like As usual 2nd to none Chris amazing work.

Thank you Chris !

LTG : )

I love this stuff. Thanks for sharing Chris!

I swear I could watch this stuff all day!

Thanks for sharing these, very useful info!

Chris, thank you for sharing these with the world. You make it a better place.

These are so fascinating to watch...thanks for sharing with us Chris!

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I find it amazing that these new PFs are in need of so much work.. The price of these PFs should be much cheaper if they take 15 to 20 hours to make right ! Thanks Chris for showing us the issues,very enlightening .

Jim

wow those videos are great, thank for sharing.

awesome, thanks for posting this

I think whatever is easiest for you is great for us. No one should complain if all of one playfield is documented in a single long video. A few seconds of skipping ahead for us is no big deal if it saves you a ton of editing time. I know it takes a long time to thoroughly document things and keep it organized.

Agreed. The presentation doesn't change the content, just happy to have the videos.

Hi Chris,
we spoke on the phone a couple days ago when I called, asking about a European routed MM.
(I'm still impressed that you answered the phone!)
Can't tell you how valuable these videos are to us. Those of us new to the hobby may be saved hours and hours of frustration, having not known about these defects/imperfections. The others who can learn from these videos have the opportunity of being near-video mentored. There simply aren't enough knowledgeable people like yourself in any proximity to most of us, or who are willing to take the time to teach. I would happily take a night-school course in the restoration of pinball if I could. This is the closest thing to it. Keep up the good work!

Digging the vids.

Thanks for doing them!

whatever is easiest for you is best. I just feel very thankful that you are sharing!

sincerely, a big thanks!

Chris,

Any chance you can do a video on when a playfield is too far gone, when you just have to say no. Thanks again for what you bring to the hobby.

Kidchrisso

Chris, I believe that the greatest people in this hobby are the ones who take time to put together tutorials or instructional videos in order to share their knowledge with everyone. Thank you. Wally

These are awesome. Thanks very much for making and posting them -- I'm strongly considering buying one of the new-run Mirco AFM playfields and so the timing is perfect for me. Hopefully they will take note of your corrections and correct future runs.

I am curious about one thing though.. A friend who I consider highly knowledgeable about pinball told me that some of the early run Mirco AFM playfields had flipper holes that were spaced slightly too far apart, adding about 1/4" gap to the flipper spacing. Do you know if that was the case, and if so have they fixed that particular issue on their newer runs?