Quoted from sarty51:I noticed this small crack on my Godzilla Premium outlane. You can find it starting near the apron at and extending vertically. Is there anything I should do to prevent further damage? Do these cracks tend to expand or worsen? This playfield is from the April run about 230 plays on it. Thanks.
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I had a couple of these cracks on my new Jan '22 DP Premium. All near holes and none just randomly on the playfield. I took a toothpick and dabbed a very very small amount of Super Fast Thin, Premium Instant CA Cyanoacrylate. Basically water thin super glue, just tracing the crack with a couple runs of the glue to seal the crack line...it blends perfectly when it dries and makes it almost disappear. I could feel the crack line ever so slightly, with my finger nail before. After glue, was smooth with no grabbing, passed the fingernail test. Then I just covered with a small square of mylar and on some of the posts, put a plastic washer in place. The cracks have not worsened.
That being said, I will take this type of slight cracking over chipping and pooling anyday as my DP Premium playfield is one of the most dimple free/resistant, beautiful clearcoats that I own.
What I did is probably overkill, but I feel better for having addressed it early and I have seen no further spreading of the cracks 1000 plays later
I went through this pooling/chipping with my JJP GnR, so I had some small black plastic washers left over and used those near the slings and the 2 posts near the drop target banks which were taking most of the shock from the coils firing.
You can see the before and after example fix below. You can just barely make out the crack from the sling post, after the fix and like I said, it has not spread.
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