Ughh, that really sucks. Sorry to hear that Anthony.

we should all post on the ghosting thread. i have posted with more concerns i have found 2 cracked white inserts by the magna slings the inserts are lower than the playfield. i have some inserts you can feel the lip around the edges with your fingernail!!
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/is-your-stern-ghosting-grazing-insert-lifting-other/page/6#post-3294312

post you issues on that thread

Anyone install art blades on their machine yet? I purchased some from Stern weeks ago but I haven't tried putting them on yet. I have a few questions for anyone that has already installed them.

- Do I need to completely take the playfield out or can I lift the playfield to install the front portion and then lower the playfield to install the back portion?

- Is this something I could easily do by myself or should I grab some help?

- Is the wet method the best method for these particular blades and if so should I use soapy water or can I just spray some Windex down first?

- Is there any risk in scratched the blades when I raise and lower the playfield in the future?

Pretty easy to do, and you can do it with the playfield in the game. Dry fit them first, so you see how they fit. I just then peeled half the backing off, tilted the playfield and slid it into place. Once I got the back half aligned, I pressed it into place, and then peeled the front half of the backing off and stuck it down as I went. Took a total of 10 minutes. Like I said, slide them in a couple of times with the backing on to get practice first. That will tell you if there are any pinch points. If you are really nervous about improper alignment, you can spray some windex on the back, but then you will need to squeegee the liquid and air bubbles out. Make sure you unplug it first, and put some rags in the cabinet to catch the drips. Don't over-think it, they are pretty easy to do.

The Zombie Yeti blades look awesome- they really complement the overall look of the game's artwork. I had my tech over recently to add some mods and he installed the art blades. First he unplugged all necessary cables, (there weren't too many), then the two of us together removed the playfield from the cabinet.
He then easily applied the decals on to each side. We then smoothed them down and ensured they were straight and nice & flush. He indicated that he has also installed decals with the pf still in the game; peeling a portion off at a time but found it more finicky to do it that way.
When I do lift the playfield up now, I'm just more careful not to scuff the sides.
Another cool mod are Cointakers color changing speaker lights with the GB acrylic logo.

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Depends on how tight your PF is with the cab and it's different on every machine. Examine the black painted sides and see if you see any marks or scratches. Sometimes you'll have a single part (like a PF support post) that sticks out a bit and hits in one spot. You can loosen the part underneath the PF and try to tug it back a bit to avoid this.

Still it might be a nice idea to have some large poster board kept handy to slide in each side so when you lift you won't catch the edge of the decal when let it back down.

I've seen quite a few machines where the interior decals (hate the term "blade" for a sticker) have that semi-torn "lip" on the top edge where the PF caught it going down.

Pinblades look aweful and after a while they get torn up. No thanks

I created a video for my YouTube channel showing how I put Game Blades on a machine without removing the play field.

Good news with SPIKE is, it's easy to remove the playfield.

Thanks everyone. I'll probably try and tackle that today. Sounds easy enough.

Nice vid but those are the removeable type, that's their advantage, the ones that you can reposition. The Stern ones for GB are NOT repositionable, once their stuck they are STUCK. I just peeled back a small section of mine and had to reposition it and I just about ruined mine. Sterns are SUPER STICKY.

Thanks.MustangPaul,i think your spot on!

Back up his video. He sprayed the back of them with soapy water. That makes them removable a bit to preposition.

Hay,folks,a question,please??What color Cab are the Premiums??Same as the pro,and the Le's are Green??Anybody??

same as pro.

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Thanks,delt31,i'm gonna have a few LE lane protectors for givaway pretty soon! Been buying the wrong color

Paul, thanks for the info. Never installed a pair of Stern game blades before. Pingraffix and Tilt Graphics give you some freedom especially after spraying the back with soapy water.

#58 has Been in the House for a few weeks now
Love it!!

PS
Pinblades/Gameblades are supposed to wrap around the Back ( should be close as possible to the nut)

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It was a gift from a good friend
Unfortunately not for sale anywhere

installed my pinball life outlane kit, wow what a difference much smoother now. beware I was playing the game with glass off to make sure everything working smoothly and no issues, had a ball fly 3 feet almos landed on another game. these flippers are very powerful.

wow - nice topper there.

Iceman and others, what are your thoughts about the shaker in this game? I am on the fence about putting one in my premium (once it gets here).

Day 8, about 75 games. Build date 8/1....no playfield issues so far

shaker pretty good i had to lower mine as it was really ashaking!

I'm knocking on (ply)wood too! So far so good. I only played a handful of games for the first 2 days then was on vacation for 8. Maybe extra curing time? Maybe not.

The game is awesome.

Is there a setting or something inside the shaker?

Still having major trouble with Slimer dragging on the metal plate. Even after raising the arm on the post, he still collides enough to get completely hung up in the first position.

Does this mechanism look right to everyone else? I'm hoping that some of those pieces are in the wrong order, but it looks correct based on the drawing in the manual. Also, I do have the ability to slide him up and down about 1/4". There's enough tension on the wire to hold him, but after being smacked with the ball a few times he's back in the lowest position. It doesn't appear that it's supposed to be a fixed mount given that the plastic ball is free floating on the wire. Thoughts?

Note that he is specifically getting caught on the metal, and this happens both with and without the clear airball protector in place.

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Well my Tobins started ghosting! And I have a giant chip and shooter lane damage.

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Not saying that its right, but why are people not putting mylar over the drain edge if its already known to wear clear away in that region? All my Stern's playfields, good or bad wear hard there. With GBs art so close to that edge and the known issue with the clear, I will be for sure preemptively protecting that area whenever my premium arrives.

Pull up on your spade connector. Is there any play in that wire?

From day one when they first showed the LE's, and Jack danger playing it. The slimmer was hitting coming out and going back in. I brought that up in a message to stern and was told it is just bumping out of the way and will not do any damage. I said to myself then that anything moving and hitting something multiple times a game is going to have wear or damage at some point. But what do I know! I don't make pinballs. But common sense seems to go out the window in pinball!
Magicchiz

I don't know if you saw the video I created already of my friend's GB LE. In one part of the video I focus on slimer. He seems not to drag without any adjustments to the game. This was right out of the box. Check out 14:50 of the video to advance to slimer.

I'll take your shooter lane wear and raise you 6 chips (of clearcoat)......

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200 games in.

Yes, about 1/4". Should there be?

There certainly seems to be some variance game to game. However, I think your bracket is lower since you don't have the captive ball fix that raises the metal by about a washer height.

Damn that is bad... my condolences. For my TWD I took a page out of Ice's "lazy man's playbook" and put down a rectangle of clear cling vinyl. It gently sticks and is thick and later if you want to add a Cliffy or something you can just pop it out. It's the "temporary" protection that you'll probably never bother to replace

Not sure, but mine has this too. I solved my slimer dragging by pulling the slack all the way up and then adding a zip tie. Using a black one would make it blend in a lot more.

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His machine has the new captive ball fix. Irregardless, Slimer was dragging since the beginning, before this fix. Stern's first video had him dragging.

I think they have made other fixes for Slimer.

Slimer's butt dragging on the black metal piece isn't a big deal to me at all. In fact, it kind of fits well with the Slimer character - Awkward, and clumsy. What does bother me is clear chipping after just a few plays. It happened to me near Scoleri and I immediately put a Mylar square over it to prevent further chipping. Why isn't everyone doing that?

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Balls banging the glass are the least of your worries. Balls banging the play field are the problem.

UNLESS YOU LIKE DIMPLES, DON'T BUY GHOSTBUSTERS PINBALL.

The airballs, while livable during gameplay for the most part, will dimple your play field more than ANY other pin you own. Combine that with the questionable play fields, NO WONDER you're going to have insert issues. And if your inserts aren't ghosting, you're probably going to have to live with the mess.

It looks worse than any 30 year old Bally/Williams I own and any Stern I have. I don't have this on Metallica with 4000 plays!

Hard to show in photos but in the purple they stand out in the pics. They are EVERYWHERE. Just unacceptable.

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Dimpling is pretty normal

All my pins have dimples, so not sure why people worry about those. What's more concerning is this: Stern is shipping out LE's still when they know there is an issue. That's just wrong.

Yeah in the right light I can take photos of dimples in all of my Stern games. Airballs are much worse on GBLE than any other game I have seen. They desperately need to put a plastic piece over the 2X and 3X targets near the left ramp. Joe from laseriffic said he would make one if he had access to an LE. Any Chicago folks that can help? That would fix the majority of them. What is crazy to me is that Stern uses this frequently to prevent airballs - See TWD....

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True and true. But at the start of Storage Facility Multiball, my play field looks like the bottom of a steel drum.

Yikes you lost part of the paint to, whats the build date?

Build date 6/27/16. The chip happened on day 3. Delivery July 6th.