Fangs for the turtle. It just slides between the metal bracket and snakes head and clips on. Play testing in progress. Modifying as I type to either paint the center white piece black or eliminate it all together. I'm thinking $5 bucks including shipping, price may change, it is a PITA.

**UPDATE** Fangs are $15

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Eliminated the bracket, does not need it. Now it looks more stock.

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Closer pic.

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Want to let everyone know what this looks like close. On the machine, I don't even notice the seam. I don't think you will either, because if you don't like em, send em back for a refund.

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PM your address, I will send you a couple for play testing/keepers. I still think you can get a rubber based set figured out. I will eventually send you my snake head for modification, because that is cool!

Order here. I had to stop the PM madness. 2 sets for $10, free shipping to US.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/Pinballmods?ref=search_shop_redirect

You may have to take out the top screw in the head and wiggle it a bit for clearance. Otherwise it just pushes in a clips onto another round plastic rod inside. Push and click. No software update needed.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/Pinballmods?ref=search_shop_redirect

They are back up on the site. They sold out overnight.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/Pinballmods?ref=search_shop_redirect

Here is the result of my play testing.

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Give me a minute, I am installing my new 3d printed drop target. No worries, its easy.

These are not the official instructions.

Remove the top screw in head
Remove the screw holding the plastic behind snake head, rotate plastic to make back screw in head accessible
Remove back screw in head
Wiggle head until you have enough clearance, just need 1.5mm between bracket and snake mouth

We need a virgin head, it may fit in without any screw removal at all.

My clearance and the head is down tight as can be.

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To improve the success rate of my prints I will be making a slight modification to the shape of the tooth.

Here is what I assume the original to look like. Anybody with both or one tooth left, can you tell me in millimeters how long they are?

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I will post the new design, just a slight modification. I will make sure everyone gets what they want somehow.

Two machines these fit great. If you have a snake that looks like my buddies, it does not look so hot to me. Please let me know if you want to cancel. I am afraid to make it look right he may have to file the left tooth down because it is elevating the head. They did a crappy job on filing his teeth off on his LE.

Pic 1. My snake
Pic 2. His snake
Pic 3. His snake with the fangs.
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I am getting 2 to 4 sets out everyday so I will try to get those folks to put up some reviews. I am sticking with the original design, I agree they look better than the stock version.

I have closed the ordering on the snake fangs, waiting for reviews. Everyone that has ordered will be receiving them by or earlier than the emailed delivery date confirmation.

Fang update:
These have been really tough to manufacture properly. Here are the steps that I am going to take.

1. All existing orders will contain only 1 set of fangs, $5 dollars will be refunded to you when they ship. If you ordered 2 sets of 2, instead of 4, you will get 2.
2. New fang orders will be $15, free shipping in US
3. Fangs will carry a 6 month warranty in case of breakage

Thanks for everyones support on these. PM me if you need me to keep the order whole if you are ordering for more than 1 machine. See below.

If you need all 4 let me know. I would have shipped you 2 fangs assuming you had these as backups. Sorry you live in Canada. That was me being funny.

You should have received a confirmation email with estimated delivery date.

It will ship this week or early next. I finally caught up

Did the breakage happen on the entrance or exit of Snake? I continuously threw a ball at mine and could not get them to break or come out.

** Remember there is a 6 month warranty **

I will not let you deal with a turtle, my friend. Do you have the Pro or Prem/LE?

Keep me posted on set #2. I also have a policy if you are not completely happy with the product, I will refund your money. I am all about customer service, that is what the pinball community wants and needs.

Did not take your feedback as bitching or complaining. Love you, man.

You order and you get in line, I am ahead of schedule so sometime in December.

That's easy, I can send another set, may have cut those a bit wide. I made them to snap in because the head is really not meant to be taken off. The other option is to send you one that slips over the post but it requires the head to be removed. The head is held on with a knurled nut that is glued into the top of the head.

I remember your order, just had to search for 'poo'. It's say December 9th, but you should get it earlier.

Mrs_mezelmods is sending a communication on the remaining orders that we have moved to a second source supplier and will ship on the December 18th or December 23rd.

She is doing a great job kicking my butt and by end of year, shipments will be much, much quicker.

Go Bears!

Large batch of fangs are on their way for assembly and delivery this week!

I am continuing to take orders and getting out of the hole!

I have had very few issues reported on these. I guarantee that you will be satisfied based on the number that are installed out in the wild these days. Just say no to the turtle.

One of our buddies had a snake like that, where stern cut the fangs off. They did a shotty job on those too. Their new snake head without the fangs doesn't have that problem.

Glad you like em

Just had a couple issues and they have been resolved. JDubbbs had the most famous ones. He broke both sets in two days, so I made a slight tweak of the design and he has not had any issues. The newer set is very robust! If you have issues I will get them fixed. Have no fear.

Yeah, I let Iamdarras know I would post that the fangs may not fit as well with his head. He was okay with that. Sounds like the several people that have bought his head has figured a work around. So it's all good.

Just to let let everybody know, my fang nightmare is over. We have shipped every single order and have them in stock.

Rensh, tomorrow I will send you a backup set with an intact ring. They are printed with a full ring and I cut them so everyone would not have to pull their snakehead completely off.

Send me his address and I will get the rev.2 fangs out to them. The rev.2 have a design improvement that make them much stronger for issues like this.

I just confirmed with jdubbbs that his rev.2 fangs are still going strong. He had a machine that broke 2 in a day. He plays his daily. I also play the crap out of mine with rev.1 fangs and they have never had an issue.

It's customer service from here on out.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/Mezelmods

There is a screw in the back of the snakes head you can remove also if you need to get more wiggle room.

I've seen a lot of turtles out there lately. Fang em up.

I think his head does not have the center post to clip on to, but had another pinsider glue them onto the bracket. I do tell folks it is not plug and play but you can do the work around.

When I was hanging with John Borg in Texas, his comment was that our fangs look better than the original. He got another set for Lyman.

We will send the whole order again, time for me to invest in some postal insurance. Let us know if it does show up in the meantime.

Maybe your snake jaw needs adjusting, that's all I can think of.

Here is a direct link to the fangs

http://mezelmods.com/collections/metallica/products/fangs

Through the diagnostics test, test flasher #27. This is where the sparky wires are hooked up. It is sometimes tough to tell if you have direct sunlight on them. You can also check your connection at the flasher bulb. If you suspect a problem, send me a note at [email protected] and we will get it resolved. The failures I have had is typically the 12v inverter. If that fails, it fails dead.

They come individually. That's essentially what we did too.

Send a note to [email protected] and we will take care of you. There is a rev.1 and rev.2, rev.2 is much stronger even the rev.1 have been very successful.

Blue and yellow is bright, the purple and orange is not as bright or obvious in the daylight. Best checked when played in the evening or the way I like, not much light at all. Let me know.