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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Ask and you shall receive haha. That looks great! That's pretty much exactly what I was thinking of something along those lines! The light is perfect it would really help in letting you know when the lane is ready. I'm sure if you offered a few different colors people would be all over those. I know I would

I ordered one last week and I was told it would be ready by the end of the month, but who knows now with all the delays being reported. MET will be my first NIB so I'm willing to wait.

lolol. I dont think 8 of those pistons would fit over that lane! hahah would be awesome though. A cool color for a piston would be to 3D print it in a gray/steel color and then dry brush some scorch marks on the sides of the piston so it looks burnt and blown up!!

Duuuuuude that's way cool. Both this and the eyeball stickers are really nice touches.

Just got word from my distibutor that my MET pro led has shipped from the factory and that he will deliver it to my house next Thursday morning!! Sooo psyched!! First NIB hope its problem free

So awesome! Happy for you man. MET just never quits being the best!

Duuuuude nice!!! I get mine on Friday morning!! (its sitting at my distributors shop right now) I cant WAITTT!!!

Got it!! Have the Polk sub, sparky protector, eyeball sticker, Mylar magnet protectors, fangs, under cab lights, tongue sticker cemetery arch and shooter lane cliffys before the first ball launched. Oh and I added a couple color LED's.

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Mine are not loose like yours to where they will rotate on their own. However, I can move them around if I push on them but they will stay centered. Maybe put a little shim of sorts in there with them? A small piece of electrical tape on top of the fangs to take up some of the space maybe to tighten them up? Just thinkin out loud haha.

So I know this has been covered over and over in this thread but its so dang huge at this point its hard to navigate haha. BUT.....I'm having bounce back issues with the post that pops up on the orbit. I know the best solution is to order/install the metal post from Marco but in the meantime is there an adjustment I can make to aid in less bounce backs? Maybe increase pitch? Decrease pitch? Otherwise this game is amazing!!

BTW anybody who DOES NOT have the Polk psw10 hooked up to Metallica is seriously missing out! Wow just wow. MET and my BSD share the same sub and both of these pins are crazy with some bass. Took me long enough to get a sub lolol. (bought it just yesterday over at FRY's)

Yup! It even says clear sparky protector included but not shown. GTG

You got it! Best game ever!!!

Honestly I cannot tell the difference between sterns current balls and the PBL shiny ones. Before my first ball launch I held brand new PBL balls side by side with the stock stern balls that came with my MET pro led (5 days ago) and me and my distributor who delivered and set the game up could not tell a difference. I played with the stern balls for a couple days then switched to the PBL balls. IMO no difference at all. Seems as though stern ships with better balls now??? I don't know. Just an observation.

Btw I LOVE THIS GAME!!!

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FWIW I had to update the code and I received mine 5 days ago. It takes a lil while, but what me and my distro did while it was uploading was install mylar around the magnets, sparky protector, cliffys, snake fangs/tongue sticker and Mezel cemetery arch!!! Made use of the down time lolol

Just roll the Stern balls....I couldnt tell a difference. (unless you have some PBL balls and want piece of mind)

Congrats!! Marco has some Mylar circles for Iron Man that are perfect for Metallica. The sparky one even has a little cutout for the post on the left of the magnet! Looks like it was meant to be there. The graveyard magnet you will have to cut the circle into more of a square to fit in between the graveyard lane but that one doesnt see the abuse that sparky magnet gets. I put some mylar in the shooter lane right where the ball kicks out and also the shooter lane cliffy to protect the wood on kickout. I also put a piece of mylar in the center drain hole area wrapped over the edges. Some guys have had problems there with the clear chipping so I prevented that from happening with some mylar right at the center drain. The biggest most important thing to get is the extended sparky protector plastic if you dont have it already. Pinbits has it in a kit or you can buy it separate.

Ahhhh you referred to me as MTI haha. Good catch! You must use the phonetic alphabet for work? For hobby?

Oh and to keep it on topic....METALLICA best pin EVER!! woohooo

Frys has them in store also. Kind of hard to find a Frys but if you have one nearby they will price match anything on the internet. Thats how I got mine. Such a BADASS electronics store. If anyone is coming to Vegas soon and has never been to a Frys....you NEED to stop in. Just a little further south from the strip on Las Vegas BLVD.

Hmmm I'll have to try that. I have the left flipper buzz also, right out of the box. Its weird, sometimes no buzz, sometimes very little, sometimes very loud buzz.

FWIW I have the 2" purple Titans on mine (looks awesome btw). BUT....they are a tad to small I feel. Because they are so tight the ball bounces off the slings alot now with no triggering of the slingshot coil. I want to try the next size bigger. 2 and 1/2" maybe? For now I have put the original black ones back on.

Good plan!!! haha

It seems that the big wear area on any MET (pro or premium) is going to be Sparky himself, the Sparky magnet and the playfield around the sparky magnet. Those three ares will be in worse condition if the previous owner had never installed a mylar circle around the magnet and also the extended Sparky plastic protector. Also check the normal stuff like, shooter lane wear, mystery scoop, center drain wear, broken plastics etc etc. But I would focus on the sparky area.

Also out of curiosity, is it an original PRO (square hole speakers), or a new PRO LED (round hole speakers with graphic)?

Cool!! Good to know!! thanks. Definitely ordering the 2.5" ones now!

Yes. But not OVER the magnet core itself. Just the big ring around it. Go to Marco and they have the mylar rings for Iron Man which are a perfect fit for Metallica as well!!

Mine is like that also doesn't bother me one bit it's fairly normal. The insert is level and when the game is on you can't even tell. Like others have said it's called crazing.

Yeah man they sure are easy to screw up for sure!! I was SUPER nervous about doing them myself as well but i used the windex method. You then can just literally slide them around to where you want them and work out wrinkles at your leisure. I highly recommend that method. That was my first set I've ever done and I was terrified lol. After you get them where you want them just slowly work the liquid out with a towel or something. Once the windex dries/evaporates the sticker isn't going anywhere.

Congrats on the Met Pro Jeston and welcome! Such a badass machine I LOVE mine. As far as the right ramp entrance goes? Mine is the exact same way with the two standup targets where they are. I'm assuming you are talking about them being "in the way" when you don't complete a right ramp shot and the ball rolls back down the ramp and hits the back of the standups right? The ball will kind of bounce between the two stand ups usually then continue down back onto the playfield. That's what mine does and I've played a few other MET's on location here in Las Vegas and they all did that as well.

Or my favorite: I SWEAR IF THAT SNAKE LOOKS AT ME FUNNY, I'LL FUCK HIM UP!

Never gets old haha

Just order a NIB one? Unfortunately when they do come up for sale it's still pretty close to a NIB price especially if it has lots of mods. This machine is still in pretty high demand so a used one won't be too much of a savings. Not saying that there aren't deals out there still but I personally wouldn't wait around for a used deal that might never happen. Just order a NIB one!! You won't regret it. Such an awesome game.

Ouch! I can see the hesitation now

Sounds like the vibration from the left flipper is triggering a loose solder joint/connection on one of the switches for draining. Check those connectors. Also does anyone know if you get 500,000 points for just draining?

Boom!!! I knew it lol. Good job!!!

Yeah same here. He's strange to deal with for sure. I've had mine for prolly 2 years now but when I ordered it was the same experience. Hell take the money then like maybe 2-3 weeks go by and all of a sudden an envelope shows up with a hand written address on it and your sticker/cling in it. I can't say whether or not to cancel as it seems some have been ripped off. But I would wait a lil longer. I like mine. I will say this though, if you do get it make sure you peel it up when you go to wax your playfield. I didn't take it up once and started wiping wax all over it and it faded the black ink to more of a gray now. Looks fine when lit up but it's definitely faded now. My mistake.

Yeah I want to change out to that. Just haven't gotten around to ordering it haha

Never heard of or seen anyone do that. Keep it clean and you will not have any problems. IMO worn out Mylar on a ramp would look far more horrible than a small trail on a ramp. Also I would think the ball speed entering the ramps would suffer greatly.

Honestly if that happened to mine I would just buy a new set of fangs. I don't remember the price but I don't remember them being outrageous or anything. I think if you glue it back on it'll just break again soon. Definitely worth a shot though! I would reach for the handy dandy cyanoacrylate (CA) glue.

Edit: love the Eddie avatar btw haha

Yeah wow!! Very nice! But not for me either lol. Rattlesnakes CREEP me out and that mod does the same when I look at it lol. I couldn't do it. My wife would NEVER play MET ever again lol. I actually spend most of my time in my AZ house which is very remote so whenever I see a rattlesnake it literally makes your heart skip a beat. If it's on my property I have to kill it now. Never fun runnin across one.

But the craftsmanship looks excellent!!

And not to be a smartass.....BUT.....rattlesnakes are vipers. Pit Vipers to be exact

Haha me neither!! Scary when ya run across one. That rattle sound is something you know instantly.

I primarily live in Kingman AZ for the year and same here. I hate rattlers!!

Omg!!! That is horrible. Sorry man. Thats too bad also cause it was for a charity show. Trying to do something good and this happens.

Yeah I have a sub and the Stern shaker. Completely agree with snakesnsparklers. They both do different things.

Sooooo not to be a party pooper (I’m super excited you got your play field) BUT......where is the second Newton ball?!

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Phew!! Lol good to hear! Wouldn’t have been a deal breaker anyway just drop a ball in lol. I thought we were onto another Stern QC issue lol. Good luck putting her back together. Happy for ya!

I had my distributor order the SAM shaker for me and then he came over and installed it. Took him less than 20 minutes. I 100% could have done it myself but he asked if I wanted a shaker when I bought the machine and I said “sure”!! Lol. Super easy. Literally just plug and play.

Are you referring to the speaker grill decal? If so I wonder if you could get a new version, “line it up” and carefully cut a nice line around the speakers. Kind of like window tint guys do with the razor blade.

Edit: that probably wouldn’t turn out too good and it’s too “in your face” to be anything but perfect.

Haha lol. Nice

MET is a keeper! Every time I think of selling mine for something else for a lil change all I have to do is play a couple games and my mind changes pretty quick lol.

Each song has what you could call a “checkpoint”. If you don’t make it to said checkpoint.....the song starts over. If you make it to a checkpoint or multiple checkpoints it will start from the last one you made it to. Sometimes I find myself cheating and cradling the ball for a few minutes just to make it to a certain part of the song lolol. I suck sometimes lol

So I very rarely do this haha. I didn’t know this was bad for it but I do it to explain shots to people who are watching and are curious what I’m shooting for. And also sometimes just for a minute to advance the song a little. And honestly , I can’t even recall the last time I did it besides the normal cradling during game play. I will now limit my cradling time though based on others chiming in. Thanks for the heads up!!

Is this it? I found these on google images.

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Ahhh gotcha lol. Yeah I know right. I’ll never understand when something is for sale but there are no pics!!! Crazy haha

I don’t know lol. I’ve never seen it

Ahhhhh yes I have seen that one then. Didn’t know that was the Laseriffic one lol

I have a pro led. You can change whichever bulb you want. They are either 555’s or 44/47’s. When you say “card” do you mean an led on those little pcb’s?

Haha no problem. I figured that’s what you meant

Pinbits. Get the ones without the spider web engraved in it. Some have reported that the those break prematurely. Maybe the spider web engraving weakens it? I have the plain clear one on my game. Still going strong.

The way I see it is that they don’t want the premiums and LE’s to feel less “special”. If they just sold any translite to anyone then why not just buy a Master Of Puppets translite and slap it on a pro? It would cheapen the feel of the higher trim level machines and make them feel like everyone has the same thing.

Hmmm now that is weird. I see no problem with a lateral move like that.....but this is Stern we’re dealing with so I’m not surprised lol. Btw I have a pro led.

Lol right!!? Haha yeah the master of puppets glass is LE only.

I clicked your link it is a PRO translite.

Haha lol wow. I saw the picture of the coil next to it and didn’t even read the words below it lol

Or maybe just put the damn spotlights back on like it was designed? I also tried moving the spotlights to the scoop and the fuel lights area and I couldn’t stand how dark my center playfield was. Put them back after about 10 minutes of playing with them off.....horrible.
Just blue loctite them. Works great.

What the heck Metallica machine is that??!!! Some sort of prototype? Home brew?

Oh cool I didn’t know one existed!

That’s awesome! I’ve never seen that! Thanks for posting it.

I can’t ever get it in the scope either. Especially when that red bulb is flashing for an extra ball and you are already on ball 3 and need the extra soooo bad lolol

Yeah my posts are closed up also. I still suck!! Haha

Spinners are cool for sure and look great but the code isn’t supported for the PRO. All that they do is advance pick targets to collect band members quicker.

That sounds cool. Haven’t heard of that board.

Ahhhh gotcha so you need the total light show mod. I see now

Pinbits sells the sparky plastic protector for airballs. You can buy just the clear one. That’s the one you want, resist the colored ones with the spider webs. They look like shit and some people have reported that the etching of the spider web weakens the plastic and will prematurely break. As for the post you are referring to it is the diverter post that is behind sparky on the orbit. It’s a plastic post that moves up/down and the plastic is too “bouncy” so people replace it with a metal one. I got mine from Marco but haven’t installed it yet haha. And finally there should be “key posts” (in yellow) at the beginnng of the thread at the top with links to all this stuff.

Incorrect. There are checkpoints that you have to make it to for all the songs. Otherwise it does start over. Don’t drain so quick lol...problem solved

When you are holding the left flipper for the super skill shot are you plunging the ball while holding the left flipper in? That’s the correct way to do it. If you are just holding the left flipper and are waiting for the up post to go down it won’t happen. You have to plunge the ball, holding left flipper, and THEN it will go down. Just making sure you’re doing the right sequence.

How do you know that he would rather have IMDN over MET? Lol. He already said he wants a MET.....

Yeah totally haha. It’s not that long of a sequence. That’s my beer sippin chance also! Wipe the sweat off your hands, sip of beer and get ready lol.