It has always bugged me that the light sockets for the two center inserts in my Met Pro were mounted low vs the two outside inserts where the light sockets are centered.

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The Cointaker insert kit that I got had flex leds in there that did help. With the flex head I was able to get the led close to center. But it still wasn't perfect.

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I decided to make a under playfield plastic to add centered mounts for all four sockets. The plastic uses the existing holes and hardware in the playfield where the sockets were screwed in. So it is 100% reversible.

Heres a pic from under the playfield
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The plastic has 4 holes to mount the light sockets directly under the center of the inserts. Used some hardware that I picked up at Lowes last night to mount the light sockets to the plastic. Also there are 4 holes in the plastic for the LED/555 bulb to stick through and up into the insert.

It isn't that pretty, but it is functional and best of all it works.

All four inserts are centered now.
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If I was gonna make another one, id do things a bit different. I made it so it used all four existing playfield holes. but you really only need the 2 on the outer edges. So I think the plastic could be a trimmed down some and still work. Also I'd make slotted holes on the edges to allow fine tuning the position of the plastic underneath to get it dialed in before screwing it down.

Lemme know what you think and if you think I'm crazy for bothering to fix a small aesthetic issue with Met Pro.

If you guys do decide to do it, one thing I did was to use my ethernet cable labeler to label the light sockets from left to right 1, 2, 3, 4. I had all four of them unhooked and tucked into the wire harnesses to get them out of the way for a few hours yesterday. The labels came in handy when I went to put them back in place.

Good mod. I like the zip tie idea to mount the socket to the metal strip.

My brother suggested the coffin needs the same thing, but honestly I'm satisfied with my coffin after I made a few modifications.

-put the imdaras coffin mod sticker on
-put in red premium CT LEDs for the 'balls'
-put white flat 8 CT flashers in for the flashers.
-bent the flasher mounts to get the led flasher closer to the playfield.

Stock, the coffin drives me crazy when the flashers are on, cause you can see the shadows of the wires/mounts under there on the white insert of the coffin. but I don't have that after making the mods above. The shadows always reminded me of a city scape, and then I always thought of the opening for the Frasier TV show.

Sorry to hear that. I didn't put any mylar over mine and it doesn't show any signs of coming up. I guess I lucky. Looked at my notes and I think there was only 2-3 weeks of time between installing the sticker and when I replace the LEDs in the game. So maybe the regular 555's could have an effect?