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Steve Ritchie discusses Pinball Playfield "Dimpling"

By StylesBitchly

6 years ago

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Post #34 Ancient playfield pic for comparison Posted by vid1900 (6 years ago)

Post #100 Summary of Playfield hardness test with gauge by Procrastinator Posted by PinMonk (6 years ago)

Post #117 Explanation of test method to determine wood hardness. Posted by swinks (6 years ago)

Post #118 Wood hardness graph, contains most woods used in pinball playfields. Posted by vid1900 (6 years ago)

Post #129 Comparing the size of dimples based on hardness. Posted by TimeBandit (6 years ago)

Post #195 What is Maple plywood? How is it made? Posted by vid1900 (6 years ago)

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#363 6 years ago

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Has anyone determined if Predator suffers from any dimpling? And if not, who made the playfields along with the type of wood and clearcoat did they use?

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#582 5 years ago

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I apologize if somewhere in the thread this has already been mentioned but this machine had plastic over the playfield and still had craters! Well beyond dimpling...

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#595 5 years ago

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I don't have a horse in this race, but here is a recently uploaded picture of a HUO BSD.

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#601 5 years ago

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Quoted from kvan99:
Lol....one dimple

Two that we can see on a HUO playfield on a game where the ball doesn't get slammed around like others... Who knows what could be there, as Bally/Williams playfields are to have no dimples!

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#710 5 years ago

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Quoted from Tranquilize:
They are dimpled. You just need the perfect angle of view.

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#714 5 years ago

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Dimples from 1989 and 2007.

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