I paint all my shooter lanes with Hard as Nails. Use a small crafts paint brush and paint it all the way from top to bottom of shooter groove and eject hole so far so good 2000 plays nearly on tron LE no wear, probably the same on my IM 2000 plays maybe more no wear, SM with painted shooter lane no wear or cracks in paint 500 games played. It's probably over kill but I do about 10 coats!
Oh Cliffy why did you have to go and tell me you make a shooter lane protector for Tron that fits IM and SM, might aswell buy 3 of them now which will nicely go with my SM, IM and Tron ramp protectors, yeah I surrender take my money Cliffy