And you soldered to the tabs on each board, right?

Nah, I just went down and triple checked, just so I know I'm not crazy. Switched wires back and forth and tried multiple bulbs. Do you have a metal backbox led run premium?

Extra balls- I am trying to figure out why I am getting extra balls so early in each game. I checked my settings and it says extra ball awarded after 5 hits to the captive ball (coffin) it is on standard default setting. So I checked the wiki tonight and it says it should be 15 hits to the captive ball. My game is nib running the 1.70 code?

Default is 25. Adjust it until it says factory. But I’m pretty sure it’s 25. There’s one option that’s auto I think. That auto adjusts if you’re getting it too often.

I might have to up that in mine. It does seem too easy.

I thought that the default was 13

defaults for locking coffin balls for the first coffin multi-ball are: 1st ball - 5 hits, 2nd ball - 10 more hits, 3rd ball (and start of multi-ball) - 10 more hits
I believe for subsequent locks, it's 10, 15 and 15

note: this on a premium/LE and may differ from the pro since you still have to still have to get the ball captured

I will have to look at mine, but I recently went through and changed every feature setting to default and I can’t rememebr the last time I lit EB at the coffin with less than 25 hits.

Edit: we’re talking about lighting EB, not locks.

correct. from the pinball wiki rules page for 1.51
"Hit captive ball 15 times (+/- depending on settings) to lite Extra Ball at scoop. Another extra ball is awarded for every 100 hits to the captive ball. Shoot scoop to collect"

Interesting. I’ll check mine tonight and report back. Maybe I’m miss remembering. Hopefully I’m running 25 and I need to back it off to 15 to make it default. This game is pretty effing hard to get to end of the line.

Game Feature Adjustment #21 - Captive ball first EB can be set to Auto, which will automatically raise the difficulty when an EB is awarded.

Soldered to the pads on each board. Met Prem with metal backbox. I'll see about snapping a pic.

arrived today
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Default is auto on the pro current code for coffin EB

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Switching mine to 15 so that It stops increasing. Haha. Need to know when to expect it if I’m ever gonna make end of line.

I just checked and it's the same on my premium (1.70) code

Yes I just checked mine also and it was defaulted to auto. I just set mine to 15.

Is there a separate adjustment for the back box speakers vs. the under cabinet speaker? My back box speakers are quite low compared to the under cabinet speaker. Sort of like in your car you can have the front speakers louder than the rear speakers or vice versa.

Not unless you have aftermarket speakers with an adjustable crossover. SAM games are mono. The new SPIKE games have 2.1 sound which means there is a whole separate adjustable channel for the cabinet speaker in the menus.

I am trying to figure out why the ball is "bouncing" back into the trough causing 2 balls ejected into the shooter lane. At first I thought it was magnetism but it seems it is the force of the ball hitting the wood with extreme force and bouncing back into the trough and because another ball is already in the trough 2 balls are coming out. Apparently if I change the coil power it affects all coils? It seems there is something needed against the wood in the exact area where the ball hits against to "dampen" the blow to prevent the extreme force of ball hitting You would think this problem would have been ironed out at this stage of the run of Metallica machines.

Get the metal wall guard that pinball life sells. The MET I have has this and I haven’t seen this happen once.

This.
My met did a bit of the same at first. I adjusted the ball eject a hair and it improved quite a bit. Installing the right wall rail guard finished off the job. Never happens anymore. Dont wast you money on the rest of the shooter lane protection though. I'm removing mine this weekend. No matter how many times I adjust them, they always affect the shooter lane in a way I dislike.

Chuckwurt did it happen before you got the metal wall guard?

Not sure. You want it anyway. Protects the wood from getting all banged up.

Made this the other day for the coffin captive ball, looks pretty sweet I'd say on a pro! Just if anyone is looking for ideas

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That's sweet man, great job!!!

Like it. Doesn’t look out of place next to the snake.

That's awesome! I normally don't care for a lot of stuck on stuff but that looks right at home there. Looks factory. It would be even better if it had something to tie into the flasher it covers up. How does it mount?

Thanks! Yes I agree, I'm thinking on how to I could put a flasher in it and make it look good. It just mounts using mounting tape, I prefer not to drill holes in plastics etc if I can.

You could could out the 'M' and have a translucent red plastic piece to fill it in similar to the M's on the ramps. That would probably be difficult but would be perfect.

What snake. I just see a turtle in that picture

Mod looks great. You really need some fangs next though!

Touché

Repositioned the lit up valve caps to have a better look. Show now more clear the status of the lit inlane inserts.

What a belt buckle and a couple of valve caps and two leds can do

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I feel like I remember seeing this topic on this thread last month but any advice would be great.
I finally installed my power blades and they look amazing but...
Im registering sparky hits for no reason. If I turn off the power blades it's fine. Turn it back on mid game? Boom, sparky is lit up in no time. Any advice from the other poster that was on here with that problem?

Went to check what LEDs I need to change on my Metallica and noticed this blue wire hanging. It's for the under cab lighting. Can’t find where it goes to. Anyone know? I know it connects to a flasher. Unit has 5 wires. Black/common, Red/coffin flasher, Green/snake flasher, white/Sparky flasher and blue??? Thinking Cemetery flasher????

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I was reading a similar post from someone that hooked up the Sparky helmet wire and was getting the same issue. Claimed it was a defective part and was sending it back.

I'm having the issue where the GI lighting and the spider inserts go out randomly (again). some times they come back on on their own, but other times a good slap save smack to the side of the cabinet brings them back. I could have sworn that this was related to the ethernet type cable running from the head to the underside of the cabinet, but I checked again and that doesn't appear to be the case.

has anyone else experienced this? and if so, what did you do to eliminate the issue?

Joe is shipping me a replacement box. Good customer service at pingraffix

There's your problem, and solution.

thank you. I'll give that a try this evening

Or the connector may be heat damaged and need replacing. There's been a few of us with this happening lately.

Rob

Best mod ever (and no, not talking about the color/smart dmd)

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What ARE you talking about?

I love the black T-molding on the head.

Winner winner! Hate the chrome. I get why they did it, but black just looks better to me. $15 gets you plenty of black t-molding to do the job, and it's easily reversible.

Visited a dollar store today and saw this Halloween gimmick.

So made myself a 3 USD topper

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What the heck does that have to do with a Metallica themed pinball ?! I don't get it

Gravestones are in the game... at least I believe they are on the UK version rather than the crosses.

Damn it. I changed my GB molding out to green and never really thought about met. Now that I see it in black, I'm not sure I can look at cheap chrome anymore!

I changed my t-molding to purple,
Thread has pics

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/so-you-changed-your-t-molding-post-pics

Gotta say that black t-molding looks pretty good since all the other trim is black. I never worked with t-molding. Figure it is easy but what do you need to do the job?

It is super easy. Just need a razor knife. There are u tube videos showing how to notch the back where the cabinet curves, so that it lies flat instead of bunching up. I made a big deal out of it when I did GB and it still took maybe 15 minutes

When you take the old trim off run a flat blade screw driver in the slot to clean it out. Then when you start to put the new molding in you should only need to slide your thumb or palm of your hand to slide along it to press it in. If you need to, use a block of wood and a rubber hammer and gently tap it in as you put it in.