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I just picked up a Williams High Speed
Boz:
I talked to someone at Marco and as I suspected it's a simple RMA return process. I'll be sending them back this weekend.
On a side note, I took Jim's experience to heart and decided to inquire with classicplayfields.com. Here's the thread.
--- Quote ---> What does CPR stand for?
>
> I just bought a set of High Speed playfield plastics and at least one of
> the
> pieces was broken out of the box/bag (I haven't checked the others yet).
> Then I posted about it in a gaming forum and was informed by someone who
> has
> purchased something similar that these things break if you sneeze on them.
>
> What kind of strength can I expect out of these parts if a heavy pinball
> hits them?
>
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--- Quote ---CPR stands for Classic Playfield Reproductions. You can see everything on the go at the homepage URL below.
The plastics are made of PETG, which is the toughest polymer for abuse.
PETG is *demanded* by the pinball community, so we stick to it as gospel.
People will simply not buy plastics made on acrylic, plexi, or lexan. Not tough enough.
Your High Speed set (if it's the ones from us) would be PETG too. They should never ball-break and are meant to last a lifetime in a machine. They are nothing like the factory originals (which were made on butyrate). We have shipped thousands of sets to individuals and distributors over the last
3 years, across about 30 titles. Only 5-6 individual PETG pieces have
snapped in shipping (not in our packaging) out of tens of thousands of pieces. None have ball-broke in a game. Zero. Unless somebody is keeping it a secret :)
I know you can't do it with your own set, but you can literally take PETG and fold it like paper, creasing it and everything. It goes rubbery at the bend and simply turns white. You can crank it back and forth on the fold about 10 times before it comes apart (like taffy).
The only thing that breaks them clean is some odd event in shipping, usually along a very tiny/narrow place. Which is odd, because hammers don't even break PETG.
KEVIN WAYTE
Classic Playfield Reproductions
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Now, I should mention that I landed on their website before I'd even seen this set at Marco. When their method of e-commerce was for me to blindly paypal them money with no phone number on the site and no shopping cart, I was told that they sell to several other places and Marco was one of them. I suppose it's entirely possible that Marco may NOT be getting his plastics from there, but I don't hear about a lot of other mfg. making this stuff. Also, the protective layer on the plastic peices is "burnt" from what I would guess is the frickin lazer beam cutting so at least part of their advertisement seems true.
Boz:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on January 21, 2009, 09:42:25 am ---The CPR = cornchip was a joke, TheBoz, not literal truth. ;)
Good luck with your plastics.
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I realize that. Thanks. :)
Boz:
Somewhere around here I was asking if anyone knew why the CPR plastics kits come with 3 helicopters for this pin when you can only find a picture with one of the helicopters mounted to the playfield. After talking with Mike from CPR, it turns out that only the prototypes contained a helicopter and there were three different styles that were used.
For what it's worth.
StephenH:
Here is some info for you:
http://www.coinopgamemuseum.com/games/highspeed/highspeed.html
http://www.pinrepair.com/sys11/index.htm
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