I think there is officially more dimpling threads than Iron Maiden threads now.
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Quoted from gmkalos:...SM2K clear coat forum 3+ years and serving no dimples! "Goldie-lox syndrome" ...there's a million clear coat systems out there, but you got to find the one that works for pinball...and YOU did 3 years ago!!! Tested it myself, secret formula of Resins and Acrylics, took a 6' ball drop to leave a dimple in the clear coat! It's all I use to clear coat pfs now. Dimples exist in all factory playfields (except older varnished Gottlieb's it seems), if you look carefully for ball swirls you will see billions of them. But you don't have to add to them with a inferior soft clear coat system.
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Quoted from sudsy7:Implying Steve Ritchie is a definitive materials mechanics expert on playfields is like saying I'm an electrical engineer because I've operated light switches all my life. No surprise here on his "expert" opinion - he knows what side of the bread is buttered. You can almost imagine Gary Stern behind the camera saying "cut and print" at the end of the video.
Steve has been in the pinball business his whole life, he probably knows more about playfields than what you think. Just because he doesn't work where they make them doesn't mean that he is totally clueless about them.
Quoted from sudsy7:Implying Steve Ritchie is a definitive materials mechanics expert on playfields is like saying I'm an electrical engineer because I've operated light switches all my life.
Sorry but its nothing like saying that at all.
Quoted from erak:Just to let you know I also had a HUO STTNG. With 1248 plays on it when I got it from the original owner. No dimples. And not enough plays to be made flat. If what everyone says is true I should have been putting dimples in the playfield every new game played.
Also my MMr LE doesn't seem to have any yet.
But my Stern ST, X-Men, MET and GB. All had tons within the first couple of weeks. The worst being MET and GB.
So this topic is horse shit. Ignore the facts and keep drinking that Kool aid.
This reminds me of flat earthers.
And also :Some of the pics of williams games have "orange peel" not dimples/ craters.
Which it is being confused with.
The MMR that i played had lots of dimples on it. It didnt look bad or anything but they were there just like any other game.
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