Any chance someone can post a pic of the protector? Would love to see how it works

thanks, ok, I saw this inthe local machine on venue wasn't sure if there was something different out there. Looks like it works well and funny enough, I didn't notice it until today after reading about this mod and wondering where it would go

Hoping to find a Metallica pro and get into this club

Brass rain showers?

Also adding that bolt to my order this weekend thanks

waiting for my Metallica Pro to be delivered, in the meantime, I've order my Pin Pak, Sparky Protector (thanks again Rickwh) cliffy's, TOTAN replacment post, white replacment rubbers for the machine, plastic protectors, and ultra high gloss pinballs.

Still on my list is to get that coffin decal (if I can score it in red) and then some LED's

I'm just curious, has anyone done a LED layout map and made a thread for it? seems like it would be a great feature to post up, anyone could post pics of their games and what they've done for their LED layout.

anyways looking forward to more ideas as I read through for stuff to do (don't want to get too crazy I think)

some items I may go for down the road:

those sweet pop bumper caps from Hooked
led flipper buttons
removing the spot lamps on the bumpers and reroute those lights for under the mystery hole, ect...

Thanks guy, I got the spreadsheet rick thanks again

I got the new led pro. and agreed my current plan is to color code each of the symbols (coffin; snake; cross and electric knife switch).

You know I may be crazy but seeing aurich's hammer I can't help but wish there was a way to integrate it into the pro (even if none functional)...

I'm now officially part of the club. Picked up my metallica pro last night. Hooked up my pin pack last night swapped some rubbers added new plastic protectors and played a few games. After work today I'll swap out the rest of the rubbers and install cliffys.

Just curious can anyone tell me what leds are under the slingshots and return lanes? Thanks

by any chance is anyone making a Metallica speaker grill insert similar to this (but in the metallica theme)

perhaps a "M" or maybe the snake:

spiderman speaker grill insert.jpg
metallica snake logo.JPG

looks good

Thanks for the heads up rick, I'll have to check out his site later tonight.

Meanwhile I spent this morning installing cliffy's and swapping out rubbers, swapped put that back post as well.still have a few more rubber posts to swap out as well as add in the new sparkt protector but had to pick up some nut drivers and long screwdrivers first

Word is (from PaPa) that new code is coming for Metallica.

So are the inserts on the PF clear on the LE and premium? The inserts on the pro are yellow for the snake and red for the spider so just curious. Thanks

Nice. Thanks.

Wish all of them were clear inserts

With clear inserts stern could either place gels to achieve colored look at inserts or colored leds. There's no cost reason to gimp a PF, the only reason would be to keep pro owners from modding their machines to something close to a premium or LE. at any rate, it doesn't matter, the game is great in any addition

Agreed Ron, green would make sense, orange sadly doesn't unless we have our snake repainted orange (I've been tempted to) or simply use a orange led for the mouth area to tie it into the existing PF. Green would have been ideal for inserts (I scratch my head about using orange)

I feel for you Rob, back when I sold high end collectibles toys I had a lot of customers in Canada and Europe that got nailed with custom fees. I used to always mark $40 but even then at times they'd get dinged.

Would love to swap to the single target (then again might be fun to have a custom single target made)

Btw, I'm wanting to move the spot lights of the slingshots and move them under the playfield, can anyone give me some tips on how to do that? I know on page 36 there's a set of photos showing how someone moved them but I'm just looking for specifically how to remove the spotlight housing from the wiring without damaging it so it'll fit through the hole (oor can I undo the wiring underneath and pull it from below then rewire from underneath?

Thanks sparky I originally saw your pics and was inspired to do the same. how does the spot light cone come off ? (Also thanks guys for the help)

Will post pics later today of my progress

Finally got my Metallica mods done up. Might tweak it a bit here and there but it's looking about how I wanted it.
Special thanks to Sparky, Rickwh, whridlsconcestood, cliffy, Hooked, and Melissa at cointaker for help.
Purple star posts
Titan silicon rubber
Neon green plastic protectors
Purple backlit at apron
Green led flipper buttons
Green led coin inserts
Color coded icons
Hooked custom metallica pop bumper caps
Rickwh's sparky protector
Cointaker shaker motor
Orange glo ball captive ball
Moved the spotlights at the slingshots off and reroute do them to under the playfield
And many more items

it's interesting, I picked up spare star posts in Orange, green, yellow, and blue so I can swap them out and see what I like best (Also got matching colored superbands in everything but yellow) down the road I may try those orange and purple plastic protectors just to give it a different look over time. Tried colored LED's in the slings and guides but felt like it washed out the neon effect of the plastic protectors so swapped em back to white.

metallica apron underlight.jpg

metallica cointaker shaker motor.jpg

metallica fuel gauge.jpg

metallica led set up now.jpg

metallica mystery scopp set up temp.jpg

metallica shaker motor set up 1.jpg

metallica shaker motor set up 2.jpg

metallica slingshots 1.jpg

metallica slingshots 2.jpg

Metallica mystery scoop.jpg

Looks good ep, dig the orange as well, I went back and forth on those or green, ended up getting green to contrast the orange on the PF. As I mentioned, I may still get them in orange it's an inexpensive easy mod.

If I got the orange plastics I'd get the green Glo ball for captive (nice contrast)

Not really a fan of the spots on the slingshots, this way it's cleaned up and reused.

Link bro?

Sparky has shots on how he did his (I used his pics for reference on page 36) if your wanting to move the spot lights and reuse them under the pf, just disconnect them then pull them out and reroute them underneath.

There's a guy that does the plastic protectors in purple, orange, blue and green, he has some pics posted many pages back (the same guy that does the eyeball coffin sticker) if I recall boue and purples end up a bit washed out as they are darker colors. Green and orange show the highest amount of color at the edge of the plastic (may also have to do with the light wave length as well).

I may give lasserific a try though, I'd kinda like to pick up some orange for down the road, and frankly the other guy has never answered a pm or email so I'd rather give my business to someone that actually communicates

I already picked up a pin pack will get some nice headphones soon. Not doing too much else audio wise (at least until we get a bigger place )

Aurich has th best advice regarding customizing sparky, prime it first, use a good primer, something like Mr. Surface or tamiya primer. Then use quality paints. Finish with a sealer.

I actually really dig your sparky, one of my fav's (also love that day of the dead sparky). Some of those automotive paints come out hot but I may give this kind a shot (always nice to try new brands) also I enjoy seeing a mixture of glossy and matte and glossy finishes

I posted one up on titans website

Any word on colorization for dmd? I know pinball mike mentioned he thought his metallica dmd project might be ready by the time PAGG got here, was hoping the folks at colordmd had any news as well...

Just curious, I've noticed that for the guitar picks I have to hit all of them twice to lock in each person (Lars, James, Kirk, robert ) and then it adds additional hits for each member locked in. Is that correct? It feels like you need around 40 shots on the picks to lock them all in.

Thanks

I kinda like to leave it stock to street settings but wanted to make sure I wasn't crazy

Oh and thanks for the unofficial update on colordmd aurich. Also thanks for the tips hougie,

Wish the pro had the blue arrow, sounds like it would be a useful feature...

You know I've never been able to get those volume up or down buttons to work on my metallica.

Was going to get the colordmd, but at $486 I may get the smartdmd instead...

I have the pro led, it so the colordmd requires additional parts to mount (Resulting in the $486 price tag) i may just sell off something out of my 1:6 collection and pick it up. (My rational side of the brain tells me it's not practical at the cost, but my screw it side of the brain figures selling something equally impractical would even it out lol...)

The additional mounting hardware was $24 extra. I assume the additional $6 was due to taxes on the added items and shipping.

What surprised me was also the shipping cost. I used to have an online store (up until last summer) and an item of this size shipped within the state shouldn't cost more than $14 expedited. but it's not my company so I'm not privy to how they configure their costs...

what was the cost again for those? I may be in for one

I have hooked's pop bumper caps for metallica. Love them