I do agree with you. That’s also the rarest since the color ones was more chosen and this one was closer to the SE. I just got back to it after a time off and told myself this is just a blast to play.. it might never leave my house as well whatever happen in the future.

I actually got later run LE's that have black trim and silver legs... obviously this colour scheme was never an official version... guess they just ran out of the Black legs towards the end.

- They were new in box machines and can confirm they are definitely LE's. Did anyone else get one like this towards the end?

That’s great. Do you have a picture?
It comes from FT spare for sure !

Same they started the first Aliens with FT cabs With a FT sticker.

They are LE's, they have the Numbered Plaque, serial number information on back, LE artwork, Black Frame,

But they have silver legs (look slightly different colour to FT in person) and don't have the LE sticker on the front?
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Does it have the same artwork on the side of the cabinet?

It has the Queen head LE artwork on the sides. That says Limited Edition.

Powdercoated my SE right away and blacked out as much as possible And of course made all buttons green!

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looks nice. I need find a powder guy in Pittsburgh....

Me too!

Black with metal flake looks pretty good too. Love how mine turned out.

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nice - how did you remove the plates around the start button? Can you just remove those screws from the outside or is there more to it?

Just thought I'd share this pic of the lever assembly for both flippers on Alien, after a fairly busy weekend show. I'm wondering what the origin of these parts might be

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Thanks for doing the coin door decal for LE owners...looks great!!!

Still waiting on my acrylics...no worries...been in lazy mode lately and just enjoying playing the thing.......

No idea. @hemiorange09 Did the powder for me.

Any chance you have parties or have this playable somewhere? Would love to give it a shot!!

do you have the EL Blade artwork inside cabinet illuminated ?

I know from a fairly reliable source that the very last LE was actually standard ironed in LE

anyway, apart from some visual elements, SE and LE are exactly the same flipper. but in the end it is the SE the rarest since there has been much more LE manufactured.

yes it was the preseries "often said prototype" that was like that. I had one.

I have already had this concern on customers alien. in fact they are made by HP, but it's inspired by bally / williams. installed bally williams kit without any problem it's exactly the same, it works very well.

Lever assy from STERN works also and the clamps are much better.

Andrew..if u reading this..you are a fuktard.. and should be completely ashamed of your work and despite of all of your efforts it is sure nice to see some alien pins out in the wild.. too bad this company was run but such a failure of a business person.. crazy you fooled so many good peeps for as long as you did!

This might be a dumb question but if i wanted to keep the chrome legs and buy a pair of these black, would they work on my alien or did Heighway use their own legs?

https://www.pinballlife.com/williamsbally-black-legs-set-of-4.html

Would be nice to just have both sets to mix it up if I want.

Yeah they have the illuminated artwork inside and on the side blades. They also have the later labelled "Pinball Brother Boards"

I heard that physically Alien doesn't fit inside the Full Throttle cabinets and that the original prototype Alien's inside FT cabs actually had to have a hole in in the back cab for the Xeno mech to stick out of.

That's not true. the FT and Alien cabinets are the same. My Alien was in a FT cabinet, complete with FT serial number and all.

Standard legs will fit perfect.

Fair enough tbh then I think I'm talking about some of first if not the very first alien prototype made for further development. Just remember having this discussion with Helmut as his prototype Alien had some modification work done to the cabinet to work with alien.

I have a FT and an Alien. The corners on the glass magazine are different on the FT. The corners aren't cut at an angle.

Overtightened perhaps?

Possibly, but if they were overtightened it was done in the factory. I suspect it's just a case of low quality metal...

Regarding delivery of the panels... I have two deliveries left open and one of it was deposited on August the 26th at a local store.
Who is still missing it's panels?
Someone must received a message to pick up his panels at a local store.

regards
Averell

For Averell's panel installation, what is everyone using as a light blocker for the inside of the speaker cutouts? All I have is black duct tape, does anybody have any better options?

Gabe

My airlock shoots nowadays many times the ball to the gap in the middle of the flippers and sometimes the ball drains. Anybody help me to fix this with some tips? Thanks for any info!

I use black tape with foam on it.

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Just got mine today....a fun project for this weekend!!!! (I'll be using a foam surround as you showed to block unwanted light leaks)...will post when done....thanks!!!...mark

Received mine too thanks

Got mine a couple of days ago. Thanks.

QSS

Got mine today and installing now!

I love it when custom mods are made and they don't seem like a mod when your finished! It just looks like it should have been this way from the factory Thanks so much Averell for sharing your hard work with a few of us! Looks incredible with full lit art...

@Averell: I received my package, just won't be able to install it for awhile. Thank you very much for your work!

The best mods are the one's that genuinely look like they belonged in the game to start. This one definitely qualifies.....

Just replaced my chrome legs with black legs. Look great. Got them from Pinball life at a great price. Black matches well and looks better than Stern's offering.

Next up clear plastic replacement for full translite art!

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For a perfect view repaint all the screws black in front.
I did that and I replaced the screws in the backbox with black screws... the three ones in the beacons as well,
Man, that's the ultimate black edition... I just have to wait for black flipper buttons made of ALU, then it's perfect.

Still two sets in delivery... who's missing his panels???

Have you tried adjusting the airlock eject solonoid power setting? Mine was at the default but I had to increase to + 10% to deal with the situation where 2 balls would end up in there.
mike.

Thanks for the suggestion - yes, I have raised the power a bit to deal with the two-ball syndrome - I guess it might be the reason, why the scoop now shoots the ball frequently to the middle of the flippers... I guess I should experiment with the power setting.

I read on the forum that someone had made holes larger with which the scoop is attached to the bottom of the playfield and this way he got some additional room for scoop orientation adjustments, but if I can avoid going to that direction, it would be good. I had to do it with my Houdini and it was a PITA.

I had the same problem with my scoop shooting the ball straight down the middle. It drove me nuts as it was happening so often. I finally stuck a piece of drop dead foam on one side of the scoop, down inside the scoop. The ball now pops out randomly to various parts of the play field but it never goes sdtm.

Way more enjoyable now.

QSS

Thanks, I will try that as well!

The ball should go straight to the left flipper !

Mhh ... not really good. Maybe loosen the unit and weld alittle around, play with the coilsettings. I played several Aliens and all bring the ball to the left flipperbat.
On 2 balls my Alien need some tries but get out both balls. Between the tries is always a 5 second break, I think this is programmed.

OK my alien has developed an issue. Had it all weekend at the Cleveland pinball show and occasionally it would blow the secondary high voltage 6.3 amp fuse.

It would work fine for hours and out of the blue blow that fuse. Replace the fuse and high voltage comes back, fuse does not blow right away. But it seems to be getting worse. Machine is off for the rest of the show just to be safe.

Any help would be appreciated.

Just throwing it out there but when mine did this the upper right flipper coil had gone bad...