Quoted from Swainer80:

Is that it? Is that your refute? You slam someone and then have the balls to try to walk it back and say you are not personally slamming someone? You have posted the video of the game goofing off . . . call out the tech to look at it, it sounds like that contingency has been planned as well as paid for, and get it figured out. It is 25 year old machine, shit happens, deal with it. Speaking of doth protest too much, did you hear your self on the video!? . . .sheesh, fking drama queen.

Quoted from Swainer80:

Elevator man, save it! For some reason the Pinbot my friend bought from you, for his mom, was flaky as f**k after playing it for anything more than 15 mins. It took a while to figure out, but after seeing the flashers flicker when the flippers were flipped we found the the snubber diode leads were just twisted loosely through the flipper coil lug eyelets. Don't throw any stones buddy.

Quoted from SDTMinSTL:

I would like to take the opportunity to clear some things up here and give some facts related to this sale and Marshall's ( spacemanratso09 ) attempt at dragging my name in the mud.
Here is the timeline:
-Marshall calls me to come see a machine at my home. He brings his family. He comes over, they all play games for a while and then admits to me later he had no intention of buying the game (it was a Last Action Hero, HUO, mint condition). He had just bought one and wants to see how mine compares to his. I had no issue with that at all. It's pinball. We are all family. He notices my Shadow and flips out about how nice it is. His wife agrees. He says he would love to own it someday.
-He flakes out on another "sale." Commits to it, backs out. Two other opportunities to sell missed. No problem. I say nothing. We talk on the phone from time to time.
-Shadow functions fine all this time. I replace the ramps with Mantis ramps. I replaced the phurba parts I was able to. I end up selling the game to a random guy in Kentucky for a moderate price. He loves the game.
-Marshall contacts me and says he wants the game bad. I tell him I no longer have it.
-Calls again. Insists he wants the game. Is willing to pay, what in my mind, is crazy money for it. $4,400. I contact the original person who bought the machine and ask if there is anyway he would sell the game back to me. He agrees to sell it to me for slightly higher than I sold it for. Despite the 5 hour drive, there is a few hundred bucks profit I am looking at. Marshall is pinfamily, so I go pick it up. In KENTUCKY. I am in St. Louis. I tell him I need a $500 deposit if I am to make the drive. I know his reputation of not following through. He agrees. The machine will be picked up by March 29th to prevent flaking. He pays deposit. I give him the invoice shown. I drive to Kentucky. The machine checks out.
-Machine comes home. It will be a few weeks till he gets it. I set it up in my home. Machine plays fine, but I notice the sound is cutting out. I check connections, wires etc. Everything checks out. I do not want this to be a surprise. I contact Marshall and tell him what it is doing. I offer to give him his deposit back and cancel the deal. He insists he still wants it. I tell him I will pay to have it fixed, and just because I feel bad, I knock $200 off. Both texts pictured below. The tech comes, I pay him double his normal rate and he fixes it and assures me he will follow up with Marshall if it has any further problems at no extra charge. Marshall knows the tech, and he confirms this with him, and also confirms that the machine was tested and working.
-Marshall, of course, flakes on the pickup. It gets pushed back, and back. I never threaten to keep his deposit. I just grin and bear it.
-He finally picks it up yesterday. (4-4-19) He claims he is in a hurry so he asks if I will pack the game, take it out of my basement, and have it ready in my driveway for pickup. I begrudgingly agree.
-He arrives, loads the game, and leaves. Happy as hell. Says he would take the game "even if it wasn't working" and thanks me for handling it the way I did.
-I receive a text saying he didn't realize it wasn't as nice as he thought and he wants his money back.
-I slap my forehead and tell him no. He harassed me via text till 1am last night. He now claims it was not functioning at all. The tech was wrong, I am wrong. We are all lying I suppose.
I take a lot of pride in my reputation. Not only here on pinside, but everywhere. My experiences with buyers and sellers is always near perfect, and my feedback reflects that. I gave Marshall ample opportunity to back out of this deal, refunded him money I didn't have to, and PREPAID a tech in case he had any further issues. Now I am a "fucker." Exhausting. On premise alone, this is absurd.
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Quoted from jonesjb:

Seller looks like he went out of the way to accommodate. The buyer comes across as rather impusive. Why not wait and get a Shadow when it becomes available instead of overpaying to try to get a pin that’s already sold? Just wait.

Quoted from Spacemanratso09:

You know what the weirdest thing
I got lucky and I think all problems are solved
My bad obviously I over reacted big time
I was wrong
Ive apologized to the other side and it’s all good
Nothing to see here

Quoted from ccbiggsoo7:

Pot calling the kettle black!!!

Quoted from Spacemanratso09:

You know what the weirdest thing
I got lucky and I think all problems are solved
My bad obviously I over reacted big time
I was wrong
Ive apologized to the other side and it’s all good
Nothing to see here

Quoted from PinDeLaPin:

how about posting a followup of what the damn problem was and how it got resolved?

Quoted from GRUMPY:

Loose connector from the move would be my guess.

Quoted from Spacemanratso09:

You know what the weirdest thing
I got lucky and I think all problems are solved
My bad obviously I over reacted big time
I was wrong
Ive apologized to the other side and it’s all good
Nothing to see here

Quoted from PinDeLaPin:

Was guessing loose connector also or a cracked solder joint from a bumpy ride home.

Quoted from jonesjb:

What was the issue?

Quoted from Ika:

Hi, haven't been coming here for quite some time (2 yrs or more), haven't been firing up my Shadow much either in that time and now it has developed a strange DMD issue that reminds me of something I read here while ago, but I can't find it anymore and I tried searching all kinds of DMD issues. Namely, the letters shown on DMD are not in the same row anymore, they are alternating a-little-above then a-little-below in a wobbly pattern much more prominent with bigger fonts than with regular letters, they each have a fixed offset and go up and down, it is annoying and looks disturbing and is a symptom of something promising to fail further (DMD also started degassing). Has anyone seen anything like it, is it memory problem, wonky connections? Thanks

Quoted from RCA1:

Yea. It's the right tab on mine. I'll get a pic in here later.

Quoted from GRUMPY:

If it was moved on the roads in my area it would have a split cabinet.

Quoted from RCA1:

Seems I didn't remember that correctly. It's the left tab that's broken.
Here's how it looks.
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Quoted from Scoot:

If you haven't already, reseat your ribbon cables in the back box.

Quoted from RCA1:

Seems I didn't remember that correctly. It's the left tab that's broken.
Here's how it looks.
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Quoted from BENETNATH:

joining the club
a good deal on a DIRTY Shadow.
a good cleaning step and tweaking, but everything works.
what are the current option to repair the burnt sanctum area ? overlay from pinball.center had a lot if negative feedbacks..
first balls were enjoyable , a lot to do !

Quoted from BENETNATH:

what are the current option to repair the burnt sanctum area ?

Quoted from jonesjb:

Unfortunately I've sold my last custom Shadow cityscape decal for a little while ago. I didn't expect so many people to want to the decal, and for it to sell out so quickly!
If there is enough interest, I may run another print run. Please send me a message if you want to be on a wait list.
To those that bought one... Thanks for the support, and I'd love to see photos!
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Quoted from vulcan903:

I like the purple theme going on here. Put me on the wait list please.

Quoted from jonesjb:

vulcan903 you’re on the waiting list!

Quoted from Brog319:

Recently bought this title and just started having a problem with the wire form to the upper playfield. I’ve had a couple of air balls where the ball seems to clip the corner of the yellow stand up target where the wire form dumps the ball onto the playfield. I didn’t really notice how the wire form was positioned until this started happening. There is a slight amount of overlap between the top of the wire form and a corner of one of the stand up targets. Wondering if that bit of overlap is normal?? The wire form is solid, not cracked anywhere and doesn’t appear to be bent at all. Thanks

Quoted from gunstarhero:

Maybe get a picture and we can compare for you?

Quoted from Brog319:

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Quoted from gunstarhero:

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Mines a little off center but not quite as much. Also seems to be a little taller?
Are you sure your battleground is seated all the way down?

Quoted from gunstarhero:

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Mines a little off center but not quite as much. Also seems to be a little taller?
Are you sure your battleground is seated all the way down?

Quoted from Brog319:

Ok, definitely not seated all the way. Take a look at difference in backboard. Problem is I don’t see anywhere that I can make an adjustment. In the second photo it shows where the base of the kicker assembly is bottoming out on the plexi guard piece on the playfield.
Any ideas?
Thanks
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Quoted from RTS:

Lift the mini playfield up and reseat it .
It is hinged and lifts up like a car hood. Probably wasn't aligned properly the last time it was set back down before it was tightened.

Quoted from Brog319:

I’ve had it up and back down. The problem is the base of kicker assembly is bottoming out. It can’t lay down any further. The thumb screw is perfectly aligned and goes in easily.
Maybe this thing was completely taken apart and not put back together correctly.
IDK??

Quoted from yellowghost:

The ends of the panels at the back are not alligned on mine and it should be that way. Wiggle it a bit side to side and it should seat fine. Roll a ball down at the back and if it rolls smoothly, its in right

Quoted from RobDutch:

Just installed my first ColorDMD in my Shadow and it looks awesome!
But I do have a question: there seems to be some delay between animations and sometimes the screen goes black for a second, is this normal?
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Quoted from Scoot:

That is not normal. There should be no change in performance. Maybe reseat the ribbon cables. I have noticed sometimes after installing a color dmd, I may encounter problems with 12v light mods I might have installed.

Quoted from gunstarhero:

The buyer overpaid and was a little emotional.