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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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#134 6 years ago

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For fuck sakes. Can I get a "Pinside rating" on this thread? It's gotta be off the charts.

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Quoted from Darscot:
Your comment was fine,...

Thanks Doc.

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...My wife had surgery and the first they tell you ....

Is SR heading up to back-bacon land for his medical team now?

#270 6 years ago

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Quoted from fosaisu:
But as usual, reports of his death were greatly exaggerated.

I thought as usual it was just somone guessing and then people picking it up as "info."

#332 6 years ago

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Quoted from Darscot:
I'm not defensive personally at all.

#366 6 years ago

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Quoted from jellikit:
Has anyone determined if Predator suffers from any dimpling?

Naw not really.

EDIT: I mean um I have no idea.

#386 6 years ago

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OP
Quoted from StylesBitchly:
Yes, Steve has abused me with F-14. I love to hate that game! But at least it has one pop bumper!

SW needs no pops IMO...He had the right idea then

#396 6 years ago

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Quoted from MrBally:
Dialed In cannot have dimples. It is simply the best-built, highest quality pin there is!

The build quality is eXtremely high on it that's for sure. If you don't believe me, I have a bunch of "sample chips" of the clear coat that the playfield gave my after a few plays to prove it.

#444 6 years ago

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Quoted from Darscot:
Again, maybe it would do more for customer confidence....

Quoted from iceman44:
I bet Stern is really suffering from dimple gate.
I’m sure sales of IMDN suck

Exactly. They don;t need to do anything to make customers feel better, they're doing just fine.

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#549 5 years ago

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Because honestly...who cares about some....

Man Pinside does...fill in whatever wacky shit you can come up with and it will come true.

#563 5 years ago

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Quoted from flynnibus:
The divots seen on these bad PF examples are deeper and more severe than the 'dimpled all over' old playfields.

No dog in this hunt but I always wonder how many games are cratered like that? I keep seeing the same couple pictures over an over so is it a small amount of games or large?

#657 5 years ago

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Boy, thank god those 2 finally cleared this subject up once and for all.

#659 5 years ago

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Quoted from PW79:
I really want to know how this ends.

Old fashioned suck off...the only way to be sure.
Well I guess a Chinese Downhill is another way but Kvan lives in Florida with no snow so that's not fair.

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