Quoted from barakandl:I will say i think they may reuse PCBs. A friend's Metallica had a flipper transistor go out. When the driver board was removed from the NIB purchased game for the first time ever there was obvious rework already done to the board. A couple of parts had been replaced in the past already as there was flux residue and different date codes on a few things. So either Stern reused a board that had been sent back for service or the game needed things fixed around the time of assembly / initial testing.
I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing. The rework was done pretty well besides they didn't clean up flux residue.
I had a bad driver board out of the box on Metallica, with obvious rework on the back. Talked to Chaz, he said that sometimes the boards come off the assembly line with inadequate solder, and that they put it on by hand after visual inspection. I believe him.
Back to this Deadpool..... LE’s are still available new from stern, very few, despite the game being over a year old. I do find it hard to believe that a used LE was drop shipped direct from stern and sold as new, but arrived used with 1200 plays. I don’t think stern would intentionally do this, so either this was a weird mistake by stern, or your distributor had one kicked back to him and he’s trying to dump it on you.
Or, this whole thread is bull crap.
Muskegon, MI
