Ocala, FL
My Metallica seems to have a lot of these dimples. Anyone else have them on there Metallica?
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1 year later
Quoted from vid1900:Here is another great example.
A Steel magnet core (you know, made of solid steel) is covered in dimples from the hardened steel ball.
Now tell me of ANY wood that is harder than solid steel?
Got any clearcoats that are harder than solid steel?
Good one.
3 months later
Quoted from CaptainNeo:keep in mind the game you are talking about as well. No airballs means....no dimples. That's why these older games don't have dimpling. I don't get airballs on my alien poker, but I sure the shit get them on INDY 500. And guess what. It dimples. And has a shitton of them. So many in fact, that the field almost looks flat again.
Even if you use some insanely hard clearcoat. The wood under the clear is going to flex. If the clear on the top is soooooo rigid, that it cannot flex with the wood.... It's going to let go of the wood and cause a ghost dot where the dimple would be. It's better for the clear to have some flexibility so it can move with the wood, as the ball is beating the living shit out of it.
Have any pics of the INDY 500 where the pf has evened out?
This is a photo of another posters ST with thousands of plays on it. Zoom in and you can still see dimples everywhere. Even with all those plays the playfield is not evening out.
Quoted from vid1900:There is NOTHING to debate.
Sugar Maple comes from the same trees it always has. There is no sacred 'old growth Maple' because Maple dies young.
There is no wood harder than steel, thus ALL playfields made of wood dimple if you use steel balls.
There is no clearcoat that can prevent dimples, your car caught in a hailstorm is obvious proof.
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If you can't handle the truth, stop buying new games.
Stick to the 30 year old games that have had hundreds of millions of plays.
Why are the thickness tests showing some play fields are harder?
3 weeks later
Came across a new ac/dc ve which I am comparing to my game and made a month apart. The wood/playfield on that ac/dc has very few dimples with the same amount of plays (500 GAMES). I even tired firing the cannon on prone areas to create dimples on the other game with NO LUCK! I am convinced the wood is different and MUCH softer on my playfield as compared to the other, which is a shame.
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