I would do clear plastic’s myself.

Thanks. This is helpful!

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Just finished up modding my Met Pro. Here is a walk through video on my mods. The Pinstadiums are on point!!

The lcd is terrible and does not look correct at all! (My opinion).

You do have the color led version too. That's what I have as my preference.

Anyone have a lead on a replacement grave marker plastic? Mine is broken where the flasher is.

The lcd can be switched to look like the led, have you tried that?

Yep. I find that "Dots XL" works best on most of my games. But a few do look better on "scan" or "hi-res".

Funny how different taste can be. My son and I were just playing Met last night and hadn't played it for a while. I actually said to him that I think met on scan mode is one of the best screens for a color display. So many cool animations on there and they are cartoon style, so it looks awesome IMHO

So this game is blowing f7 again, a few seconds after power up. The best I can tell…..balls get magnetized, get stuck on one of the many magnets, and start causing problems. I need to go back and read up again, maybe I blew the xsistor on that little magnet control board again? I did buy a new replacement , the most recent revision. Maybe its time to use it.

Well the xsistor on the magnet control board was dead. I installed the new revision D board I got. I will repair this rev. C board and keep it as a back up I suppose.

I have high res set on my colour DMD for Met. Think it suits it. As someone said previously it does indeed have nice animations

My 2018 Met Premium has a mix of colored GI bulbs (red/blue) but I'm not sure if this was just something that someone decided to do, or the way it's 'supposed' to be. IIRC I replaced the same color combo in the Avengers Hulk LE I had and dumped the blue in favor of cool white 2SMD. Which bulbs can I change and NOT screw up any sort of color GI effects on this machine?

I don't really like CoinTaker LEDs (I'm a big fan of frosted 2SMD from Comet) so I'll likely swap out all of the white GI while I'm at it.

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It came with the multi color lighting. Mine had some incandescants mixed in along with the red, blue, and white. I swapped it all for sunlight 2smd frosted. I realized I don't have the color changing gi right now, but it is really well lit this way. It can always be switched back. If I was going to go back to the red, blue, white GI, I would use 2smd frosted bulbs for that as well.

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Yours looks great. I don't think giving up the colored GI effects would be a TERRIBLE thing..I just feel like I'd rather keep the effects if possible.

It's the red bulbs that correspond to the colored effects, right? Not the blue ones (at all)?

Sunlight looks great in this game. I'd probably go with those over the cool white that I mentioned prior, just based on how yours looks.

I'm pretty sure the blue ones are used during Fade to Black.

Dammit I think you're right.

Well, maybe just a clean swap over to Comet 2SMD frosted, matching colors as-is, then.

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I think the frosted 2SMD colored bulbs actually are worse here than the crappy cointaker clear bulbs. They're just too vivid. Blah. I do like the Comet sunlight frosted.

Tbh I think the all white above looks way better. Is it lacking at all in any of the modes that do the GI effects DudeRegular ?

My Pinball tech came over today. My problem was in alignment- mounting underneath bracket with the snake was from factory. I’ve got the last production run of this game and my pin had less than 100 plays on it. The bottom bracket was not set up and drilled properly for the mounting. It was off by the distance of about one screw hole. We realigned it and put a new screw position in the mounting bracket underneath and the game ejected the ball from the snake mouth perfectly to the left flipper. The plastic coil rod was not hitting the ball perfectly center.

So instead of switching colors, it just dims in some of those situations. It is because it shuts off one or two of of the GI bulbs as they are generally in clusters of three bulbs.

The colored GI really looks good for the different modes. I would suggest swapping all of the bulbs to frosted, I really hate the clear lens bulbs. I attached the original layout of where the blue, red, and white are supposed to go.

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My most recent pic was with frosted 2SMD from Comet swapped in. It looks terrible in pictures, but really it's not *that* bad in person. But the colors are definitely more vivid than with the colored / clear dome Cointaker bulbs, and probably more aggressive than I want with the colored portion of the GI.

I think for now I'm going to leave it as-is with the Comet frosted 2SMDs in it and see how I feel about it after a few weeks of gameplay, but ultimately I will probably swap the crappy Cointaker clear (colored) bulbs back in but leave the frosted sunlight where appropriate. The CoinTaker bulbs are less vivid than the nicer frosted 2SMD bulbs I put in and while that's *not* what I want with the white bulbs, it's just a bit too much for the colored bulbs I think. I want the effect of the colored bulbs for the different modes, but I don't want them to cancel out the white during normal gameplay, and it feels a bit like that's what's happening now.

I like how it looks (for normal gameplay) a lot better with the white. It's really too bad there's no better compromise here.
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New Metallica mod I saw on location yesterday...

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LOL

Something looks...........out of place!

Good lord that's pathetic.... That's why plumbers shouldn't work on pinball machines.

Hilarious!

Very true. But I also hear that Plumbers Don't Wear Ties...so...

Man, I'm by no means a great pinball tech (I do what I can, given the extensive 2.5 years of time I've spent in this hobby) but how the hell do you get it THAT wrong?

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I wonder why the "tech" had to remove that plastic in the first place.

Tech?

Hence, the quotation marks.

Haha, I was laughing along with you. Hard to imagine what they were thinkin when they put back together

What type of bulb is the green one behind the snake ? It lets you know when to shoot the snake. Not sure if mine is loose or burned out? It looks like a wedge type bulb, but I didn’t want to pull it out until I’m sure it is a wedge led.

Yes, #555 wedge base bulb. Part # in the manual is 112-5033-04. IIRC it is a bit of a pain in the ass to get to.

Yes it's a wedge bulb #555.

Thanks everyone for your help! Hopefully I'll pick some up at Pinfest in Allentown.

I pulled the bulb out, and adjusted one of the wires because it was close to the edge and some of it wrapped around to the side of the socket. Pushed it back in,and now it works

Anyone know the Total Lightshow guy? Any way to resurrect that product? Metallica is such a great pin - definitely destined to be one of the all time great Sterns, and demand is high. People are going to continue to want mods, but many that were popular a few years back have gone away (shooter rods, helmet wire mod, light show, etc)

He's been selling a few of his games he used for development. He is not out of the hobby completely but it's on the back burner. Never say never but don't hold your breath.

I think the same guy also used to make a real knocker kit for Met. I’d love to get one. Pinball Life has them for Spike games but not SAM. Any other ideas?

I’d love a helmet wire for sparky and a real knocker. Just finished my met pro in purple powdercoat.

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Looks great! I just did exactly the same. Such a fun game. Just gotta do a flipper rebuild. Mine are buzzing like a broken streetlamp.

Flipper rebuild might not have any impact on the buzz. There are quite a few topics about it, but I had some success doing the gasket at the coil stop and a zip tie around the coil and bracket. With the glass on, I no longer hear the buzz.

Yeah. I have one of his kits in my Met, and it's great.
I would like to do four other SAM games and don't know of an alternative.
Anyone have any ideas?

You have to get the step down board from PL and then wire to the coil and boards somehow. Redshiftled use to sell the harness but no contact. Everybody needs to hit him up to make more.

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Purple looks great. Do you just take the original legs etc to a powder coater and ask to have them done or do you buy a second set without the textured finish?

Also is your purple textured finish or smooth?