I hope this isn't off topic, maybe someone would be interested in these puzzles.
https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/metallica-kill-em-all-ride-the-lightning-master-of-puppets-and-and-justice-for-all-jigsaw-puzzles-due-in-september/

I had to remove some small sex bolts, on my gun holster, that I used loctite on. I used a soldering iron to break the bond. I just held it on the sex bolts, for less than a minute and it broke the loctite bond.
Hopefully someone will chime in as to whether or not,this is a good idea to use on a pinball magnet.

I'm hoping to join the club sometime this year. But first I have to sell my house,and then find a new one to live in.
I'd like to pick up a Metallica Premium/LE Huo pin locally. I have a ton of questions,so I guess I should start at page one in this thread.
In the meantime, I'll be popping in and out with a couple of questions anyway
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I wouldn't be against a NIB,but I have a feeling, they're tough to find now.

Anyone thinking of selling their Metallica Premium LE in the near future? I'm hoping to pick one up,once I sell my house. I'd like to pick it up, to avoid shipping. I'm hoping that I'll be ready to buy, by this coming fall.
I figured It's worth a shot to ask.

I'd like to join the club,but nobody within driving distance,wants to part with their HUO Metallica Premium LE.

Metallica vault question. If and when Stern comes out with a vault edition , would it be made in the Pro , Premium ,and LE models? And if so, would it still be made with the SAM system?
Also,is there any chance that a vault edition could be coming out in a year or two ?
Thanks in advance .
Ralph

Were any Premium LE' made in this last batch? I contacted a couple of distributors,but no one had any Premium LE in stock. If I can't find a HUO machine,I might consider a NIB. But Id rather pick up a HUO game that has most of the bugs fixed. Can you recommend a distribtor I could contact?
Thanks
Ralph

Thanks

I'd like to pick up a Metallica Premium in the near future.
One big problem,I have"Ophidiophobia" fear of Snake's. Is there any mods where I can replace the snake,with a little puppy?

Thanks in advance

How's the reliability of your Metallica premium, is there anything that needs constant attention?
Thanks in advance
Ralph

I know it’s a long shot , but anyone with a Metallica Premium HUO, who’s leaving the club, pm me.
Thanks in advance
Ralph

I forgot to mention HUO,but thanks again for your help.

Just joined the club today. I picked up a low play HUO Met Roadcase. It looks like it just came out of the box! It came with the original and the Pro translite. I knew I was getting it Tuesday,but I didn't say anything,because I didn't want to jinx myself.
I also started reading from the very beginning of this thread. I mostly skip over the tips on how to score since the beginning post are seven years old,and are probably no longer relevant.

Thanks again,I've been excited all week,and it seemed like an eternity waiting for Saturday to come.
Thanks for all your help today !

I'm glad you replaced the translite

Is there a setting in the game to turn this off? I checked, but I could have missed it.

Thank you !

I read on Facebook today and someone else had that problem,unless it was your post I read?

They definitely aren't shipping orders,but have no problem with taking payments. I placed an order May 8th and the status report on their website is still listed as "Processing". They also ignored my emails asking when my order is going to ship.

I'll give them one more week,and then I'm calling my credit card company.

Thanks

I like the power blades,but it looks like it'll be a tight fit on my game,and I'd be afraid of scratching them when I lift the playfield?

Thank you!

I saw a premium sell for a 1,000 not sure what a pro cost?

How good were the installation directions? I've been reading the Metallica thread from the very beginning,and somewhere I read that they were a bit lacking.
I'm on page 310 and I'm getting close to getting all caught up and I learned alot of helpful things in this thread! I wanted to thank a couple of posters at times,but some of the post were seven years old.

Placed my order yesterday for my Color Dmd LCD. I'm putting the Power Blades on hold,since they could cause problems with my machine.

Is this the correct fuse? I ordered all of the fuses that Metallica uses,but it doesn't say 50 amp?

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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.

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

I'd pass on that game. I don't like the looks of the sunk in playfield around the magnet.

Could someone tell me what the red light special in the outlanes awards you?
I see it a lot,but I never drained in the outlane that had the red light special lit.

Thank you

Thanks,I'm glad I didn't drain to find that out. The only thing I hate about Metallica is the noise the machine makes when you win a free game! It made me jump out of my skin when it want off. I disabled that the first week I had the game.

Anyone ever bend the curved metal piece over the hole, in the mystery scoop,to help stop balls from bouncing out? I remember in the Dialed In club thread, people were bending theirs to lessen the bounce outs.

That's what's on mine,and a lot of shots bounce out on me? I might try to put a piece of foam on the front inside of the protector to deaden the blow. But I'm wondering if bending the metal like some dialed in owners did on their phone scoop would help?

It’s the curved metal piece that acts as the backstop for the Mystery hole. I bent it down and forward a little bit tonight. I made a lot more mystery shots tonight . But that doesn’t mean anything,until I test it again tomorrow. It could be just a coincidence I made more tonight? The sane part of me wants to bent it a little at a time, and the impatient part of me wants to bend it a lot.
I’m guessing that changing the angle of the backstop/Power Scoop, will stop the ball from bouncing straight back at me ? It worked for the Phone Scoop in “ Dialed In” so I’m hoping it works for the mystery scoop too? I included a picture of the part.
If I were you ,I wouldn’t try this until I’m sure it works .

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My Metallica is much better now,and I also added 3m double sided foam tape to the face of the power scoop just for an experiment. It helps to soften the blow,and it makes the mystery scoop more receptive .
I Googled adding foam to the scoop of a pinball machine. That's when a whole thread of MMr owners came up. They were talking about bending the scoop like I did,and they also mentioned adding dead drop foam to the power scoop. I bought some on ebay, to replace the 3m foam I'm using.
Hth
Ralph

I have a premium also,I'm talking about the mystery scoop.

You need something like this to put on the face of the metal scoop where the ball hits.
https://pinbits.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=131.
They no longer sell it,so you have to find something similar. That's why I used 3m double sided foam tape. I'm waiting on a product I bought on ebay to see if it's better than the 3m foam I'm using.

Could someone explain how I fixed my mystery scoop? Every once in awhile my mystery scoop wouldn't register a hit. I'd occasionally get robbed out of a free ball or the start of Crank it up,or the the shot to end CIU. It did kick the ball back into play at least. But it didn't give the reward?

So I adjusted the switch,and now the game would go into a ball search when I hit the scoop,so I bent the arm on the switch in the other direction. Now it registers the extra ball and all the other rewards I earned.,and then it kicks the ball back into play. So now it's working 100% for me.

Is there something like two detents on the micro switch,where one registers the reward,and the other kicks the ball back into play? How did I fix the scoop into recognizing the extraball and the other rewards?
Thanks in advance
Ralph

Thanks a lot to the both of you. Now I have a good chance of beating my high score, now that my machine isn't ripping me off anymore
One thing to be aware of,if anyone ever replaces this switch. I tried to adjust the actuator arm by moving the micro switch.It didn't move enough to make a difference, so I retightened it. Then I noticed the little green button on the micro switch was fully depressed and it wouldn't pop back up. I loosen the mounting screws and then the little green button popped back up and then it worked fine .Somehow the screws being too tight caused the button to stay depressed ?

Do not turn the game off with the coin door open. I’d like to have a magnetic decal of this warning for my coin door ! I read about this before,but I don’t trust my memory .

I like taking care of my game by keeping it clean and waxed ,plus I like how my game plays after a good cleaning and wax job.But I do miss making the Mystery scoop shot using a full plunge,on a freshly waxed playfield.
Does this happen to anyone else after waxing their playfield?
It usually takes three weeks of play before the full plunge to the mystery scoop works again. I hope this doesn't mean I should wax my playfield again

I give it the same little nudge, a thing of beauty to watch. Lately I’ve been having a lot of success with using a micro flip on the right flipper to set up a backhand shot to the Mystery Scoop. It never gets old watching a backhand shot hit the mystery scoop.

Looks like he sold the right machine .

Looking forward to playing Godzilla. I don't think I've ever seen a Godzilla movie,but the game looks like fun.

Check YouTube out,I'd bet there's someone installing that mod.

Be nice if you could do something like this,using epoxy instead.

This is a first for me,somehow a ball got into the lower cabinet? This use to happen to my Dialed In,but this is a first for my Metallica. I'm not sure how it happened, maybe a snake shot, coffin lock,or the mystery scoop ?

I noticed every once in awhile,I have a fathom hammer strike, and when this happens,the coffin magnet is below the playfield. And it's just a hole with no magnet below the hammer.
I've had a ball go in the hole , because the magnet wasn't there to capture the ball but it just falls into the coffin lock. That's probably what happened,but somehow it want into the cabinet instead of the coffin lock.
I think I read somewhere that this could be a magnet board issue?
When I got the game last May,it had less than 250 plays on it,and it still had the original code. So maybe the previous owner never replaced the magnet board,when other with this problem were getting a new magnet board from Stern.
It doesn't happen a lot,but maybe I should see if Stern thinks it's the magnet board?
Thanks everyone for your help.

Yes I'm sure because I noticed that I only had three balls in play during coffin multiball. I checked the ball trough,and sure enough there was only three balls there.
The game did a ball search several times,but for some reason it couldn't find it inside of the cabinet.
The game is playing great again, once I added the cabinet ball back.And like I said,I only get the phantom hammer strikes every once in awhile,and this is the first time thay I had an issue.
I'm still not 100 % sure that this is when the ball dropped into the cabinet?

Did you ever get the power blades to work properly on your game ?

I asked an employee for Pingraffiix today at Pinfest in Allentown, if they ever figured out the problem with the powerblades.
He said he’s only ever heard of one person having issues with their powerblades ?

My game was made 2015,I wonder if they'd work on my game? I'd really hate to go through the install process,only to find out they won't work.
What would really be sweet,is power blades that matched the colors of the play field !

https://www.pinballlife.com/metallica-sparky-leg-protector-plastic.html

While we're on this topic,what's a Metallica Roadcase going for ?

That used to happen to me, and my game had the original rubbers on it. It hasn't happened since I changed out the rubbers to Titian rings.

Last week my Metallica started acting up,and was strobing like crazy . I did what was recommended in some old post,and now she's back to normal. I want ahead and reconnected all of the possible connections that might be causing the problem. I did the ones under the play field,and also the ones in the backbox.
I have no idea which one was causing the problem ,but I'm glad that an easy fix worked out for me .

This exact same thing happened to me last year. It turns out one of the trough wires came undone. I soldered it back,and everything was back to normal.
I think there's four wires,and one of them came lose.

Did the factory use any loctite on the threads ?

I agree,it does feel like there's more than four balls at times !

Pretty much how I found my Metallica. I placed a WTB add on Pinside,and someone 45 minutes away from me responded. Good luck !

I didn't add a lot of mods to my Metallica, but I did add the Cemetery arch to my game. It looks like it should be there,to me at least.

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Occasionally the coffin magnet on my Met premium holds the ball to long, preventing it from entering the ball lock.Then the magnet returns back to the playfield ,still holding the ball. After the magnet returns to the playfield,the ball comes loose ,and goes back into play. I also noticed that if I hit the coffin magnet right after the ball was released,the magnet grabs the ball,and sometimes its released into the coffin lock,like it should
I did replace the balls,but the problem is I can still hear that the magnet is still being energized,so the ball isn't released.
Can this be a problem with the magnet board?
I've been going back and forth with Sterns tech support,and so far no improvement.

The ball lock plunger was acting up,so I gave the optos a quick cleaning with alcohol,and they seem a little better. Before the cleaning the the ball lock plunger would keep firing after it was empty. I'm not really sure if the cleaning helped or not.

I'll double check. I remember checking when I bought this game, and I thought I was okay with the year mine was made.I guess it still doesn't mean a newer board can't be shot.
Thanks for your help.

Thanks,I only saw two bulletins at Stern. One for the scoop,and the other for the magnet board. It says that my machine has the new magnet board due to my serial number.
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Thanks for the suggestions,I already have a new magnet board and six optos added to my cart. I might as well add the small opto board to my cart as well.
I do have Mezel Mods cemetery arch added to my grave yard. That's the only electrical mod added to my game.
Quick question,in the switch test,how do I test the optos? I was putting a business card in front of them and they all made a noise like they were active.
I'll be away all day today,so I have to get back to my Metallica tomorrow.
Thanks again
Ralph

Quick question,how would you add a ball to the coffin lock to test the optos,like you mentioned?
I'm not sure if this was the cause of the problem or not. I disconnected the wire that connects to the magnet board from the coffin magnet,and reseated it.Then I kept hitting the coffin newton ball to start Coffin multiball. I caused five cycles of coffin multiball,and the coffin lock and coffin magnet worked perfectly? I'm a little suspicious that this was the problem ,but so far it's been perfect.

I was having the same problem a month ago. I reseated all of my optos,and the problem still persisted. I was getting ready to order new optos,but I tried reseating all of the optos again,and I also reseated the magnet board connection. Now my game is back to normal,and I guess reseating the magnet board was just a coincidence. Maybe the first time I reseated the optos,I didn't do such a good job? But the game has played flawlessly for a month now.

Might not be such a bad idea if Stern does another run of Metallica's? Maybe he's getting why the getting's good.

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Maybe they are getting while the getting's good,before the new Metallica's are released? Hopefully the same thing happens when the MMr's finally get announced.

I have a Metallica Roadcase, and this game is staying right where it’s at. That’s why I can’t concern myself about the possibility's of my game losing any value. Plus I’m hoping that the new Sparky is compatible with my game. I’d really like to pick up a spare just in case.

I wish the same thing , and I'd be the first in line if they were available.

I can get a quick game of Metallica in,while I'm waiting for my JP to boot up.