I think because you take more hops with our newer, more stripped down USPS it takes a little longer. Tracking says you'll get it Monday. I'll PM you the number.

One last price bump to $23 to cover the extra time of now gluing 10 corners per frame to secure the lenses from being popped out by errant fingers at install time. I'll have a little better handle now on what's involved by the time the F-U-E-L lens bracket is released shortly and price it right the first time.

Thanks! Initially I thought I'd just print a bunch and ship them out, underestimating the amount of time to print each one and especially the time to populate each one with lenses. It's been much more popular than I expected, even after I had to bump the price. Glad everyone seems to like it.

Well, I don't want to promise higher scores, but the anecdotal evidence is piling up!

All International orders (except for one that asked me to hold) are now shipped!

That's very nice of you to say! It's kind of accidental that I ended up here, but it was a case of no one else making these and I needed a solution, then when I was done, I felt I should share.

I think the colors are as close to dead on as they can get without getting custom colored plastic sheets made, which would make it way too expensive. The blue of Aces High is the smallest of smidges too light, and the orange of Hallowed Be Thy Name is the smallest of smidges too dark. But these are VERY nit-picky criticisms of the final colors. Everyone who has them has been very happy and they look great in the game.

Heh. I try to be thorough with the designs. The lens tree is evolving a little more since some people have accidentally popped the lenses out (if you press in the middle of a lens, it flexes and will come out of the brackets), so the ones from here out will have a dot of hot glue in each of the 4 corners to stop that from happening if someone grabs it carelessly when installing.

Speaking of designs, the stern spike power supply fan replacement mods to make them silent (34.6dB stock down to 12.6dB with the mod) will be taking pre-orders starting tomorrow since the plug and play kits are on their way from the factory now...
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/replacing-stern-spike-noisy-ps-fans/

I'll take the compliment, thanks. Not so sure about Stern.

Working on the fuel gauge for Metallica. Since they're all individual light boards, experimenting with being able to snap them into the "tray" so they're in the bracket, right over the lenses, which would eliminate the need to put a screw in every board. You'd only have to screw the first and last hole on the bracket (optionally).

THANKS for that picture! I kept meaning to take a "before" and kept forgetting. Really drives the improvement home.

Do you mind if I add your side by side to the OP?

Thanks for supporting the effort!

Looks like it's set for delivery today, so you'll be set!

The prints aren't so bad (very few failures, knock on wood), but the lenses and process of inserting five per frame and now gluing 10 dots, 2 per color, as well for a little extra protection against careless fingers punching the lenses out of their slots. It all takes time, and I didn't realize how much until I was doing it. I think this is pretty close to right now. I may raise it another couple dollars for the gluing time, but I'll see how it goes.

All the replacement lenses have been sent out to the very first shipment of these lens trees I sent out with slightly different colors. They'll arrive poly-bagged in a cardboard sleeve in a small envelope. Just pop out the lenses you have and insert the replacements. Note that the lenses are not perfectly square, so if you're having trouble getting them in the slots, rotate 90 degrees and try again.

I didn't start gluing two of the corners on each color until last week more as a preventative measure since a few people had knocked theirs out (not that they're hard to snap back in, but still).

Glad you're happy with it. Thanks for supporting the project!

Too much baby-sitting the printers to do it that way. I'd have to be around the machines all the time, and no guarantee I don't ruin a print if it doesn't start up again right. Also, leaving it with slots allows the lenses to be changed if someone finds a better color match (however unlikely that is). This way I can batch them and insert lenses and glue a bunch at a time.

Very thoughtful. You are clearly the kind of friend I need more of!

I appreciate the suggestion. I will say that I've learned a lot about hot glue string-minimization technique. It's a thing. I had no awareness of it before now.