I bought 5 samples, waiting on my double sided tape to arrive.

After seeing the samples, I will have enough to make mistakes a few times.

Does anyone have a template of the piece needed that they can share?

Are they shipping to Canada now?

I bought the replacement high wear decals, followed post 1, but i used some soapy water spray and squeegeed with an id card and a spray bottle. Basically like an art blade install. Once i had the DS9 on the plastic (it is soft, super sticky-flexible plastic) i trimed the excess around the DS9. Then i stuck the decals on the back, and trimmed around the replacement stickers…took about 4-6 hours. Not perfect but happy for now until i put in machine, may do some fine trimming with exacto if needed.

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When doing this-as mentioned a few times, orientation is “not a preference” its a requirement for the DS9 to work. (Credit to OP)
Edit here:(added) when you hold the DS9 in front of you, tilt it up toward the ceiling and down towards the floor. It should remain a silver-ish color. Turn 90 degrees and do it again…you if it looks “black” when tilted toward the floor and ceiling, this is incorrect. Silver up and down when tilted is what you want.

Also, the double backed plastic is soft, and kinda a one-shot deal when DS9 is applied…However, the DS9 is insanely tough. I ripped a sheet off of plastic because the plastic bubbled and then stuck to itself…I was prepared to sacrifice the DS9 sheet, but it withstood the insane tearing off force without any degradation. Very strong-so i reused it.

You can also hold it up in front of the projector. You will CLEARLY see which orientation is correct. When it’s the correct direction, it’s a crystal clear image.

No. I used Shippsy.

How long did it take Elitescrens.com to ship the screen samples? I orders a few weeks ago and have been ghosted ever since. Just wanted to check before I request a credit card charge back.

It was quick for me.

I ordered Nov 24, being delivered today. Maybe contact them first?

Finally got around to playin with this StarBright 9 stuff under the laser.... Applied adhesive backing first and then gave it a go. I've dialed in the settings to the best of my ability, but given the nature of materials it does melt around the edges a smidge and requires a good cleanin post laser. In the end it does look pretty good from 3 inches away though

Really want to avoid the 2 piece ramp setup though... hmmm.....

(Showing direction really does matter with this stuff as well )

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Great job, and did you get the popular choice of 5 sample sheets?

Please tell me you’ll offer this as I HATE cutting and am terrible with measuring LOL

Here’s my big tutorial on measuring. You hold up a ruler to the thing and read the little number.

Oh that's cool. I was planning on getting it done as well, just wanted to wait on having a scan of the ramp stickers as well.

Which laser CNC did you use, what's the output power, and what power level did you use ? I have both a Snapmaker A250 10W laser module, and an Elegoo Phecda.

I opted for the 7 sample pack so that I had some sheets to play around with. Not sure if I'll offer them precut or not as of yet, as I know Ashram56 has been wanting to do this one for a while and if I did it I'd want to avoid the 2 piece ramp.

I've got an Aeon Nova 10 100W and the sweet spot seems to be around 35-40% power. I currently just did the basic rectangle shapes for testing/conceptual purposes, but should be easy enough to get the ramp templates as well. My premium is supposed to show up today, so I'll see where things go from here.

can you cut this material using a silhouette machine or circuit? cri cut or whatever it is called?

Is someone going to be offering the kit pre-cut? I am interested and I am sure many would too.

I would be.

Same here. I bought the 5 pieces but I’d still be interested in pre cut pieces

I'm also interested in pre cut pieces.

Just wanted to let everyone know that come mid-late Jan I will likely be offering precut kits if everything works out (got a couple things behind the scenes to finalize first), but holidays and time off are going to delay the progress on this for a bit from my perspective. Not sure on pricing yet, but right ramp will be 1 piece.

When the time comes I'll be posting up a pre-oder thread with all the details, but in the meantime feel free to message me and I'll be sure to get ya on the list.

Scotty, you’re the man!!

Agreed! I am looking forward to this

This is by far the best mod/addition I have ever done to a game. It’s truly amazing the difference.

Potential easier way to mount this stuff. I used 2-sided scotch tape like a child craft project. It seems sturdy. And it can be pulled off fairly easy with no damage to original screen. Just make sure you lay the pieces of tape down very flat with no bubbles or wrinkles.
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I would also love to purchase a pre cut set!

How is it holding up so far? Might try your way

After a few days, no problem. Secure as ever. I’ve only done the main screen panels. I’m not sure how this would hold up for ball traffic areas.

I ordered but plan to only use it for the main screen. Is that weird?

That’s what I did and I’m satisfied with it. The other areas show up clear enough IMO.

That was my thought. Cool.

No. But you might want to consider doing the drops and standups.

These are spoken for. Thansk!

I've started my adventure of installing Darkstar 9 on my Premium.

Contrast is much better. I see a bigger difference in a lighted room vs a dark room. Still improves contrast and sharpness in a dark room

First image is all lights off in the room. Second is lights on

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Does anybody have the measurements for the three pieces that make the big screen?

You would think after reading all these posts a hundred times I would get this right. Please make sure to get these directionally right. When viewing the sheet tilt the material up and down if it stays silver you got it right. If it goes black rotate it 90 degrees. All of sheets had the card stock on the side, not on top to get them right. Glad I bought 5 sheets as I started these going the wrong way. Also really take your time with adhesive. If you avoid air bubbles it really looks impressive.

If it makes you feel any better… I did them in the wrong orientation the first time. Wasted some of the material. But got it right in the end and it’s a huge improvement over stock.

Even after figuring out the “correct” orientation, how are people applying them? I got to thinking, in a home theatre you want the 180 degrees view to be horizontal. But on a pin perhaps vertical is better? In a standing position you are already at something like a 30 degree angle vertically and more if you are tall. For the player, they are always centered. And how often are people at extreme horizontal angles watching the game?

Introducing ScreenEffects for your Stranger Things Premium/LE machine.

First kits are starting to arrive today to those that reached out to get on the interest list earlier, but now opening up my pinside shop for domestic orders (international will be through my shopify store once everything is finalized, and payments are working properly.)

https://pinside.com/pinball/market/shops/1293-pineffects/10209-screeneffects-starbright9-precut-kits

Brian

EDIT: 15:20 MT WHOA... A much bigger demand for this precut kit than I was expecting, Truly appreciate the support and response on this!!!.. I've depleted the amount of kits available that I can make with the materials I currently have on hand (other than standups and drop targets)... I will be ordering more materials, and will be adding this back in stock when those materials arrive... Stay tuned!!

Going to be very busy cranking out these kits as fast as I can for those that have ordered. Please be patient with me

EDIT: 18:20 MT
Additional materials have been ordered(hoping to have them next week). I have every intention of ensuring everyone that wants a kit can get one. If you'd like to secure a spot in line I have updated the listing to a pre-order (domestic only however). Those that got in before the pre-order status expect shipping withing 7-10 business days.

Again thank you for the support, glad I can offer this to the community.

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Uggh I just ordered darkstar9 samples yesterday not knowing this was going to be released so soon.

I thought StarBright/DarkStar9 didn't work on the ramps due to the angle....

Order placed!

Just ordered, Can't wait! Thank you!

What is the link to buy and ship to Canada?
Thanks

You're cutting everything on a single sheet of material?

Received my ScreenEffects kit from ScottyC today. I was one of those on the initial interest list, just took me a few more days to get it because of Canada and using the cheapest shipping option.

Haven't installed it yet, but it arrived safely, is packaged well and the cuts of each piece are about 1000x better than I ever would've been able to do by hand. Arrows are drawn on the back of the pieces to make sure they get oriented properly, the material looks amazing, all in all very well done.

Definitely recommend, especially for people like me whose drawing and cutting skills are at the level of an average 6 year old. Was going to try the DIY method but I know I would've done a bad job of it and probably wasted a lot of material.

Haven't put mine on yet. How hard is it to get the old material off of the center screen? Trying to decide if I should remove the old stuff or just put over top.

Getting the factory material off anything plastic was pretty easy for me(latest STh run). Just picked a corner and slowly peeled it off. The metal parts though like the sides of the center ramp... pain in the butt. All that left over adhesive is not easy to get off either. So kind of a personal preference on which way you'd like to go(overlay or removal), but I recommend taking the time and remove the factory material.

I left the white ones on my ramp/screen area. I took off all the target ones very easily. I will be doing the plastic ramps when my UV kit arrives so I can change all that out at once