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Message: <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>

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