How well does the brass ramps hold up after 200 games or so? Doing well?

LED's for GI's on shadow are terrible. Way to dark. Really need the 360 illumination a bulb gives off, because there isn't enough GI's to make up the difference. LED's look good in the inserts tho. This is one of the cases, were LED's do not belong everywhere.

yes, keep us updated, because if there is a way to brighten the playfield more evenly as with regular bulbs, that would be nice. Mostly for the GI plugs which get crispy with normal bulbs.

Also, any input on how well brass plating holds up with ball traffic?

and that's brass plating?

You might have the wrong coils in yours then. Seems a little too strong. Which is fine for you, but if you play any other shadow anywhere else or in tournament, your going to be screwed because your tricks won't work.

But, you could backhand the right ramp, with the right flipper if you backhand it up there, then hit the diverter quick to push the ball the rest of the way up.

I did the brick wall as well. But also put a silhouette of the shadows Shadow up against the wall. Really brightens up that back section.

How many drivers you have? Looks like I see 3, I would assume you have 4 or more to keep them in pairs.

Nice AT-AT sitting. The Y wing looks like the repo one released years later, but the AT-AT look original.

I've never seen those for sale. You might just bend and make one yourself. Midland plastics has every type of plastic you can think of. In new berlin. Take yours there, they will tell you exactly what type of plastic it is. Have them cut you a small piece. Trim with dremel, heat and bend and your set. Get it slightly thicker so it holds up better.

36" at the front from floor to lockdown bar
22" cabinet width
29" head width
74 from ground to top of the head.

these measurements should be the same for all WPC normal body games with no topper.

wow, those head decals look good. None of them have good decals from the factory. All are scrapped up. Like STTNG. Those are aftermarket head decals.

well thankfully, for shadow, it's another one, that has every head decal destroyed.

You made the best choice. BSD is not that eventful. Shadow has 10x's the complexity as BSD.

redecalling a shadow head isn't that bad because the art is a small sticker on a black head. You don't have to go to the edges. It's a piece of cake. In fact you can do it while it's on the game. Take out 4 screws on one side, 6 on the other. Heat gun off the old. Mask and spray paint black (if needed). Throw on the new ones. Exacto cut the holes and your done. Should be done in about an hour, maybe 2 if you have to wait for paint to dry.

I have purple LED's in the mode inserts. Looks really nice compared to the white.

take a can of office duster and just spray them out with air, you would be amazed how it just blows out.

I don't like upgrading coils just to make shots, if your flippers are fresh and rebuilt, you should have no problems making the shots. If you put a stronger coil in there, it's kinda of like a crutch, and if you play any other shadow, you won't play worth a shit. Better to keep what's suppose to be in there. it's suppose to be an accurate shot to make it. Stonger coil , i'd be worried about breaking the brick drop target.

congrats on your high score of 3 million.

4 billion? was it on 10 ball? Most i've gotten was 1.4 billion I think.

Only the Shadow knows.......

lift up the mini playfield. There is a black bracket where the side to side coil has a spur gear. That bracket has a very thin spot in one of the corners, that likes to break often. Make sure your metal bracket that has the teeth track on it, doesn't have a broken corner where the spur gear moves inside of .

why not just get yours fixed? If the cabinet speaker is going in and out. Probably a bad connection to your speaker, the plug going to it, the wires or the wires on the speaker itself. if you have extra speakers with the same ohms sitting around. Hook it up and see if it goes in and out or not.

back isn't leveled correctly. Lift up the back left leg about 3-5 threads.

yes, but if you have owned ES and RS and JP before, you will notice a lot more screws and nuts laying in the bottom of the cabinet than other games. Shakers do take a little toll on games more than games without.

I like the LED job, not a fan of the silver sides and back.