Keith’s

Does anyone know where to buy these cabinet reinforcers?

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Easily added the heavy duty brackets and upper corner L brackets. Ordered them from Marco. Used #10 1/2” pan head screws on HD bracket.

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Yes, there's chance that's why I stayed with the 1/2". You could go a little longer at your own risk.
I do not think predrilling is needed with #10 screws. I agree, the wood is soft. In fact, don't over tighten. Set you drill clutch properly.

btw, added the leg bolt heavy duty brackets from Marco to the BACK of the cab with the playfield pulled forward. Easy to do with the new long rails. No need to pull the playfield out of the cab like I had thought. This was a relief.

Personally, I don't mind making mods to improve my pins and if this includes adding brackets to the corners, so be it. Should Stern learn and fix the splitting issue? Abso-F-N-lutely. I doubt anyone from Stern or any of their distributors read Pinside so as a group of concerned Stern buyers we need to get some of our suggestions and facts to the suppliers.

Me likey these improvemtns:
Replay - added replay animation
Tomb Award - added 'Super Combos', awards 5x combos and deathblows for the rest of the ball
Tomb Award - added 'Power Jackpot X+5', adds 5X to the current power jackpot multiplier
Tomb Award - added 'Boost Power Jackpot 15M', adds an additional 15M to the current power jackpot
Flight of Icarus - changed the starting score from 500K to 1M
Flight of Icarus - boost the combo time from 4s to 6s
Hallowed be thy Name - orange arrow shots score changed from 500K to 3M
Hallowed be thy Name - award shots increased from 3M, 5M, 7M to 5M, 10M, 15M
Number of the Beast - starting attack value changed from 4M to 10M
Shoot Again - added background animation and 'Shoot Again' text
Attract Mode - idle flipper button speech added

And I'm hoping this is what I think it is:
Improved stability