What is your opinion of video cassette recorder technology?

I bought and installed mine about a year and a half ago. It was obviously hand built, but the solder joints were fine. Nothing broke during the installation, and it has held up since then. Maybe he has someone new assembling them now.

I installed a set on my RFM several years ago. Everything worked and fit perfectly.

I'm possibly getting a RFM soon so wondering if this is a mod that requires me to buy the kit from him or can it be created from scratch? I will want to do it but don't know how to get the kit or when/if it is available.

Edit: think I found where to get them - ufopinball

It would be extremely difficult to create the exact same mod from scratch. It comes with its own controller board.

It's definitely a worth while mod but I would say connect it before installing it and make sure all the connections are good. If they are add some hot glue for structural integrity.

I installed both the saucer and hallway mods when I did my PF swap a couple years ago and had no problems with soldering or wire length.
The game has had over 1,000 plays on it and it still works fine.
I did change the routing of the wires for the hallway mod, this is much cleaner and easier than the way shown in the instructions.

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Lets be honest here. The real question is will AFMr include this : )

No.

Negative.

And it won't look like this, either:

Gorgeous AFM restore and love the Epilepsy warning sticker

Holy crap...that AFM is amazing. Never seen anything close to that nice.

Very nice, Doug Watson signed my apron when I took the game to PPE, it has been to PAGG twice since I restored it.
I hope PPS makes this one next and sells it for less than 8K.

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Just think of what Bill is thinking of the possibility of an AFM remake. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Thanks guys.

All the credit goes to Jim McCune for the restoration, and Chris Hutchins for re-working the repro PF.

I've told you this before, but I think that was my favorite machine at PAGG. Was right around where Doug Watson was signing ironically since you did it at PPE.

A few people said the same thing, there were a lot of really nice games there, the CCC was really nice and so were Steve's sys. 80's and so many others it is hard for me to pick a favorite.
That was great to have Doug there and the row of his games, there were quite a few nice examples in that row.
I will probably bring it again to the next PAGG, there were 2 other ones there and all of them got a lot of plays.
That is the most games I have ever seen and the electrical panels were maxed out, the best PAGG event so far.

Had mine installed for about 7 years, going on 8 with no problems.

Maybe somebody is helping him make these now...?

I have kit #2 installed and we tested two different runs of Pinball Inc. Ramps on my game. They pretty much broke every time we touched them. It's thin wire, it's just the nature of the beast. I put the expansion kit on my game as well. There are parts of that install that are tricky to say the least. It's cool, but it almost looks too stock and only AFM owners might notice what it's doing. Both kits are awesome though!

Did you install this on AFM or RFM?

When I installed the kit on my RFM, it was the beginning of a world of problems I still have not been able to solve

The kit itself seemed fine enough, but like others have said, very thin wire. I don't think you could do it with thicker wire though.

Sounds like you got it going though, so that's good!

Chris

I am surprised so many people are buying them, yes they look awesome but are waaaaaaaay to over priced.

I can't say I agree with that. You might say " it's just some blinking lights", but it makes a big impact on the game. A custom PCB is not a trivial thing, and there's a lot of labor in those light harnesses.

I installed mine about 6 years ago. Took about 1 1/2 hrs to do and that included me hot gluing the LED's in place. The instructions were clear and everything went without a hitch. The impact on the pin's appearance is pretty dramatic and worth every dime of the $149 it cost. It still works perfectly and always has. I dare say it's the best mod I ever bought for any pin.

Right, because $150 is way overpriced when you spend 8K on a machine.

Chris

Milk the status while you can. Who knows what can happen? Look at MMR.