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My wife and I got into the pinball hobby about four years ago with our first machine, and our collection has quickly grown. I enjoy modifying our machines: Adding shaker motors, color DMDs, special LED lighting, custom toppers, and more… and one thing I recently started making for myself was a high quality shooter rod.
Why? Well, when starting a game of pinball, our first interaction with the machine involves pulling back the shooter rod and releasing the ball into play, and I noticed that in the case of every machine made in recent history, the stock shooter rod that comes with the game feels cheap. It’s just a lightweight piece of plastic with the seam from its formation in a two-part mold both easily palpable and visible. With virtually every other consumer product made – tea pots, chairs, cars, washing machines, elevators, etc. there’s been some effort to make the parts of the machine we interact with pleasant to the sight and touch. Why should pins be the last product left behind?
I’ve purchased a few novelty shooter rods for our collection in the past, and while they may complement the theme of the game, oftentimes they’re actually too large, awkward, and clunky to use. And let’s not even mention the cost of some of them; or at least don’t mention it in front of my wife! (She’s not on Pinside.)
I knew I could make a better shooter rod. Hence the birth of Chrome Candy!
Our premium shooter rods are made with a 1.25” stainless steel ball, providing the perfect combination of size and weight. Using stainless steel means that even without coating, the knob will look great and never rust, but at the same time, powder coating is available to match the color and theme of any game. Our shooter rods are durable, pleasing to the senses, and reasonably priced. They also happen to be one of the easiest mods you can install on your machine. We hope you like them as much as we do.
We just launched our online storefront at our website http://www.chromecandy.com/. The basic chrome shooter rod is $39, and powder coated ones are $49. In celebration of our launch, we're offering a 25% discount on these prices through Sunday, November 19th with the promo code “CELEBRATE.” Standard shipping is $5, and we offer free shipping with the purchase of products totaling $100 or more.

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Quoted from twenty84:

We call that one fireball. I did my Kiss in that color.

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We can ship it in within the US very reasonably ($5) and with tracking because they are under the 13 oz limit for first class mail. We actually looked into shipping out of the US at it was very expensive (a little different for each country but typically about $40 for methods that included tracking). I don't have a problem shipping internationally but we didn't offer it on the website right now because it was expensive enough that we didn't think that many people would want to do it. That said, it would probably make the most sense if you were willing to order several. Let me know via PM and we will be willing to ship them with shipping at cost but that was too variable to figure out on the website.

Thanks for your order. I just dropped off the first ones we sold at at the post office and when I got home 11 more had been sold!

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Quoted from twenty84:

I'm sure that is possible without tracking. I am to ship internationally at cost, just difficult to get the price accurately on the website so I can handle those via PM.

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It is polished stainless steel but it is called "chrome" on the website because polished stainless steel candy didn't have as nice of ring to it. Power coating it yourself or having someone do it for you is certainly an option, especially if you want an exact match to a custom color.