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<blockquote data-quote="daneman20" data-source="post: 221711" data-attributes="member: 3925"><p>To clarify my previous post. Compared to the other pinball tables that I maintained at that time (around 13), I believe that F-14 had the largest solenoids. That is not to say that F-14 had the largest coils to all tables in it's class. The other 12 or so tables were a variety of which half were EM. Some were early solid state, and only two others could be said to be of the era of the F-14 table. In other words, I am only speaking from my own experience, which is limited and not one of an expert. I did repairs of all of these tables. That meant that I did replace weak or destroyed coils and such on the tables. The other thing to note here is that the F-14 tables were the newest table I maintained during my tenure at the amusement park. While I have played a number of newer tables, I have never had a look inside other than seeing some pictures on the Internet. I recall asking management at the time (around 1992) why we were not getting any newer tables. I was told, "Nobody wants pinball!" Instead, they were investing in Virtua Fighter, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, and some racing games. They were getting a lot of plays while the pinball tables remained vacant of use. Working in that place was pretty noisy and among all of the video game noise, I would occasionally hear "And now you die comrade!!!!!" over everything else. Sweet!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="daneman20, post: 221711, member: 3925"] To clarify my previous post. Compared to the other pinball tables that I maintained at that time (around 13), I believe that F-14 had the largest solenoids. That is not to say that F-14 had the largest coils to all tables in it's class. The other 12 or so tables were a variety of which half were EM. Some were early solid state, and only two others could be said to be of the era of the F-14 table. In other words, I am only speaking from my own experience, which is limited and not one of an expert. I did repairs of all of these tables. That meant that I did replace weak or destroyed coils and such on the tables. The other thing to note here is that the F-14 tables were the newest table I maintained during my tenure at the amusement park. While I have played a number of newer tables, I have never had a look inside other than seeing some pictures on the Internet. I recall asking management at the time (around 1992) why we were not getting any newer tables. I was told, "Nobody wants pinball!" Instead, they were investing in Virtua Fighter, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, and some racing games. They were getting a lot of plays while the pinball tables remained vacant of use. Working in that place was pretty noisy and among all of the video game noise, I would occasionally hear "And now you die comrade!!!!!" over everything else. Sweet! [/QUOTE]
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