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Play meter total. What's typical?

By adowns

8 years ago


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    #43 7 years ago
    Quoted from jrpinball:

    A good indicator of the amount of play a game has gotten is the wear on the upper arch. Meters can be misleading. The four or five digit ones are not very good at indicating the total plays because they have most likely turned over an unknown number of times. I once found a Gottlieb wedgehead that had around 16,000 plays on a six digit meter. From the looks of the game, it was probably an accurate count.

    I agree with jr. I don't normally even care what the meter reads. I look at the ball arch wear and that will tell me if it was a low, high or average played game

    #45 7 years ago
    Quoted from apc7654:

    I agree with all of you regarding the meter not necessarily indicating actual game wear/use. I just wanted to restore this game to the original working condition, including the correct operation of meter.
    The only wear on this playfield is in the ball arch, however the rest of the field does not show any indication of wear.

    that is why we use that area as an indicator. the pf can have no real wear but the arch will show wear if it is a high play game.

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