I haven't. Never purchased anything from a disty before and was unsure if they'd sell me one. Any recommendations?

Most probably have a parts department. I use game exchange of Colorado myself

Stern put a stop to that practice about 2+ (maybe three now) years ago directly through distributors for a number of reasons.
One of the main reasons is to prevent owners from turning a premium game into a LE.
It is possible some distributors may still have some of the stock parts before this time, but times are getting thinner.
Replacement parts for your existing game are available if needed, but you cannot "upgrade", with the exceptions of assemblies such as the Tombstone cross, etc.
Stern will not provide distributors with LE parts at all, except if backglasses if broken.

The same thing goes with translites, artwork, and rails.

Magnet issues for fuses, not just the magnet board itself are common, if the game gets played frequently.
It can be attributed to many factors, including momentary shorts on the magnet coils themselves.
This has happened to many games that use this feature, The Shadow and TAF come to mind.
I still recommend inline fuse protection for all three magnets on this game in the long haul.

Keep in mind how many "mods" you install in your game as well, as this can contribute to problems, but generally that is "down the road".

In additional to that part, the owner will have acquire a Premium/LE NOS decal set (available), drill the apron, installed lighted domes in two locations, and either fabricate or make a GI wire assembly for all lighting, which would have to be tapped onto the playfield GI which is different on Pro models than the Premium/LE.

Feasible with work, if the owner is hardcore wanting to do it.

That's what I was thinking and reason I didn't bother calling a disty. Main reason for wanting the Premium apron is to have the spotlights in there to better illuminate the flipper area. Has anyone retrofitted the two spotlights into a Pro apron and have any tips?

Can we stop using the term "disty"? Eeuugh.

I just bought a short LED strip from Comet and stuck it in the apron where the balls drain. Lights up the area rather well.

Better late than never, right? I hope so. I just joined the Metallica club on Friday, May 6 2016. Traded my AC/DC premium and got a MET Premium (monsters), and LOVE IT!! However, please do not make me go back and read all 7,000 posts in this thread.

Could you show a picture of your magnet in line fuse protection? Sounds like a good idea. I also like your lists of spare parts you posted previously in this thread for this game. Expensive now but maybe impossible to find years from now.

What did you plug the LED strip into? Have a picture of how it looks? Thanks.

You needed to see the ball drain better? Lol

Not on a Met but I added flashers to my AV and old ST pro. It's pretty easy to do. Here's a thread that showed my customer apron for ST. Just drilled the holes, mounted the spotlights and tapped into the power source. For me it was another flasher but for you it would just be a GI light.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/st-pro-mods-completed

I installed the spots with a small bolt through the apron. I drilled a hole under where the decal goes. Then I recessed it so that it would sit flush and then put the decal back on. Never would be able to tell it was there.

I'm the second owner of an original Refinery Met Pro and have never had that problem.

Actually this position for the strip works better I think, you can take the apron off without messing with the strip that's on that drain metal.

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What color did you use, RGB color changing? What did you plug it into? Thanks!

I just used white but purple looks good too and not as bright and it's 6.3v so I just tapped into the coin insert bulbs. Comet 7 led strips don't come in color changing, just straight colors.

Nice thanks.

Anyone else has a MET Pro on order? I ordered on 4/28.

Can't wait!

Sorry I didn't have time to take a pic. Paul has his exactly where mine is on the metal. I think mine's tapped into the GI at the outlane or a sling. Can't remember. Thanks for chiming in, MP.

First - +10 on what mustangPaul posted. That is where I have mine as well and it works great. I went with the frosted version though which helped dim it down a bit.

Second - Dang you for the RGB suggestion... Now I'm thinking it may be cool to get 3 separate ones for their (3 strip instead of the 7's though) and tie them into the correct GI that would match the strip. That way when the game is all blue my apron light is blue, all red and the apron is red and so on.

Brilliant. Why didn't I think of this before I ordered my white one from Comet! LOL

Anyone who has the Total Lightshow mod on their pro can take the power for the LED strips that you might mount in the drain back to the relevant colour output on the main board and drive it in sync with the rest of the GI.

I was thinking of just using alligator clips attached to one of the colored string's bulbs close by, but you're saying to wire it all the way back to your board?

You can clip it, but just check the polarity. I only suggest running it back to the board so you know your gnd is going into gnd. And also to protect the board from damage if you short out the clips. If your strip won't be damaged by going in backwards then no biggy, just clip it one way, if it doesn't work, swap clips around. Just make sure the clips are completely insulated. If they touch, a fet blows.

That got me to look at mine and mines tapped into a gi bulb as well.

That would be cool.

Now THAT would be waaaay cool.

New magnet board from Marco fixed problem of blowing 4a fuse and all magnets not working. I'm back in business. Will save old board to get repaired as spare.

What's up everybody I've been following this thread pretty much since day one and I finally couldn't take missing out on all the fun and possibly missing out on this last run of MET. Anyway I just ordered a PRO LED through my local stern guy and I'm beyond excited!!! I've already ordered the necessary protectors and a couple cool visual mods for day one unboxing and in all my mod hunting I've noticed that nobody has made anything cool for the piston lane???!!!! Something like this old blown piston with some sweet CNC machining would be cool done on a 3D printer so we could have a flasher up inside would be SWEET I think?? What do ya think?

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Premie/LE owners - Game level and plays perfect but still infrequent ball jam in coffin mechanism. Taking glass off is getting old. Any easy fix you guys have for it?

The balls jam because they are magnetized. You can try replacing them and see if that helps. Pinball Life premium balls work ok, but even those can magnetize over time. If you have another game without magnets, try swapping the balls between MET and that game. I don't know of any permanent fix.

Rob

I played some more MET Premium last night and this is just such a well rounded game where you can pick and choose what you want to do. None of the shots ever feel frustrating and cheap drains just don't happen. It's not a hard game game to play, but it's certainly not easy to master either.

Rob

Well I just had the worst thing happened on my game it is a pro made Apr 8 2015 HUO, maybe 1000 Play. The Play field art is popping off in dime size peaces and decals are falling off ...wtf ...
I sure hope stern makes this right . These are
Like Comercial grade machin they should hold up to lots of abuse.

Been using my metle at a few shows now to promote my headphone kits... She's yet to have a issue or a error

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I heard that when they were moving to the new factory the playfields weren't curing long enough or something like that.

Just started doing this after 1000 plays? No signs prior? This is really concerning because mine was produced on April 15, 2015, and mine has no signs of chipping or decals, but if it happens with more plays just seems weird. Good luck getting that then care of.

Hi everyone,

I am selling my Cross, Chair, Coffin & Chair LED insert mod I mentioned in this thread a while back. You can check it out here:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/fs-metallica-led-insert-mod-cross-chair-coffin-snake-1

I have 5 sets left for this run. Thanks!
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Pics?

Rob

Personally I would go blue on the cross and purple on the chair. The blue cross would then match the GI patterns on the premium. I have the led boards to do it myself (well, with help), but have not installed them yet.

Rob

Yes pictures.

Great idea would look bad ass i hope somebody with skills will run with this idea.

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Finally got round to fitting EL Paper to light up the cut-out side rails.

Have even got enough left over to backlight the apron where the score cards go, just need to design/create a template now.

Here are pics of playfield . really hope I can find a dealer that can help sounds like people that try to deal with stern straight up have a very hard time .

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Here is a video of a piston mod my brother and I had worked on that is 3D printed. Life has been pretty darn busy at the moment so we have stalled on it for a few. Anyhow we hooked the light up to the fuel lane so that it flashes when the lane is ready. It's easy to install too, just snaps onto the ball guide.

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