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Worst pinball manufacturing decisions?

By jncall21

3 years ago


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#59 3 years ago
 
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Quoted from Tranquilize:

Stern cheaping out on PSUs so the power switch is now in the backbox. Only manufacturer to be soo fucking cheap. I still reach down and find bald wood after a game. Who here likes bald wood??? NOBODY!

Check out the explanation here by Gomez. It's around 4:30. It made me a little less mad reaching for the switch. The real issue is turning on a row of machines and constantly going to the wrong location because you have SAM, Spike, JJP and WMS all mixed up. First world problems. This is a cool video.

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Quoted from cabuford:

Well as far as working on them, I found that being able to pull out the play field buy unplugging a few connectors and being able to put it on my coffee table was nice. Also most of the mechs had molex connectors and were easy to take out of the play field to clean. Then again SWEP1 was the first machine I bought and worked on. Still have it but I enjoy RFM as well (if not a bit more).
But definitely heavy as hell!!

Pin2K had some great innovations. The ability to pull the playfield easily and lay it wherever is amazing and makes a shop job a joy. Some of the diagnostic tools are great as well. Weren't the flipper bases no longer left and right biased? I get it if you didn't care for the screen, but there were some cool engineering ideas that were very much geared toward the people working on the games.

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Quoted from Tranquilize:

So he's saying it eliminates noise and made it cheaper for them to test... There are many ways to eliminate noise. Oh yeah, those cost money, as does the length of wire to meet what is the desired industry standard for switch location.
What's his explanation for the lack of service plug, I wonder? It's fun to run your tools off the machine next door, assuming it isn't a Stern.

I did say a little less mad.

There is still a service plug, it's just in an awful spot. If they put it where it makes sense inside the coin door it would have defeated the purpose of eliminating 120v from the cabinet.

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