Would really like to see TAF installed in an actual game. Like to see it lit and not lit and side by side comparison with a regular translite. Not buying based on an image.

Are you asking about using translite instead of black glass

Could someone please answer this question for me?

Correct.

Just waiting on TAF reviews and pics as well.
Someone please post this, Thanks.

Typically Stern used a white plastic trim around the backglass. White is hard to find and black looks much better and is cheap. Put on the black trim to protect the edges of the glass and to the glass from rubbing inside the backbox. When installing the lift channel, fold over some electrical tape on the bottom edge about 5 inches from each end. Keep layering the tape until it's thick enough to keep the channel from falling off. Don't use too much where you need to use excessive force to install the channel. It usually takes about 3 layers of tape. This is how it was done at the factory for Bally and Stern.

I'm not sure what you're asking me. Quite simply I was asking what I need to buy on top of buying this from CPR to be able to put it in my TAF, as it wasn't (and isn't) clear. The CPR website doesn't even tell you what else you might need, and I think it would be reasonable for people to expect something like this to arrive ready to install?

Thanks

Ok this contradicts what Coyote said. Think I'll wait for someone to buy and review it before I pull the trigger.

F2K is talking about the Meteor (Stern, late '70s), not TAF (early '90s).

While you do not *NEED* the side or top trim in the TAF - only the lift channel (bottom piece) - I personally WOULD put the sides and tops on, to help prevent the wood in the backbox from scraping up the edges of the backglass.

I'm assuming that your current TAF is missing the translight. If it *ISN'T*, then just take those pieces off your glass, roll up your existing translight and store it (to protect it!!) and then put the trim pieces onto your CPR glass.

Cheers. No, my TAF has a translite already, there isn't even really anything wrong with it either. I just can't help myself when it comes to shiny things

Thread started 14 days ago and already most of the mirrored are out of stock???

My TAF and TZ mirrored backglasses came safe today. They look awesome! Great work CPR Team. Can’t wait to see how much light they let through. Can’t wait to get my new Stargazer and Elektra toppers on Thursday. I hope Funhouse and TOM mirrored backglasses come up also

Any chance you could post a picture of the backside of the TZ glass?

Really hoping CPR will post some product photos. I want to get both TZ and TAF but I want to see what I would be getting first.

I took a few pics installed but can’t seem to post anything on this site . They just have a solid blocker on backside . Only have Comet single smd frosted bulbs in them with a few double bendies quick colour changer flashers in them

Sent a few pics to you metahugh, hope they came through. Let me know

Please post here for us.
Dying to see both of these.
Thank you in advance.

+1 eagerly awaiting photos of TAF and TZ

Also want to know - bearing in mind the review of the Meteor one - whether there are any missing elements on either of them.

Thanks a million nightsearcher!!! They look great! Here they are for the others interested:

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The mirroring in the lightning on TAF looks really well done! I like all of the subtle mirroring on TZ.

When I was talking about the star cutouts in the translite for TZ, here is what I was referring to:

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Wow the colours on that TAF look really deep. I'm liking that a lot.

Is it just me or do these look a little too dark?

John

Lighting so subjunctive with this.
Room, Led, camera settings.

Could be the colour changing flashers I used behind certain objects. As for darkness I’m only using Comet 1 smd frosted white bulbs in a pitch dark room. In a normal lit room with the pin off the mirroring is awesome. Colours are very rich and deep looking

I would love a die hard look at all incandescent lighting on Addams glass.
So many Led's now.
Retro comet frosted are close, but still Led's.

Hell, give me one with just warm whites in it - without the color matching crap.

LEDs are so bright, I often only use half the backbox sockets.

Otherwise it's glare city.

I am very creative with my LED lighting. I never do a whole back box, only a few accents.

Ditto, what he said.

Guys,

For any of you going to TPF, I'd encourage anybody interested to go look at our Addams translite-to-backglass at the Charity Table. It's one of (4) backglasses we donated, and will be on display there. Nothing like an in-person inspection.

There weren't missing elements on the Meteor glass.

That was only a point of view, based on that reviewer's glass.

- The white blob in the planet that we "missed" - we did not miss. It was not on the loaned original we used. Not kidding. So proven (as usual) there are other versions out there. So we're original. Just not to the reviewer's "original".

- The CREDITS text in the window we didn't "miss" ... we left it off. As we always typically have on every similar "CREDITS" window in the past. Why?
Because they have always been a *decal* that the factory/operator stuck to the back of the glass... as was on the loaned original we used.

We could have always added CREDITS in actual ink to all those glasses in the past ... but people always say do original. So we left the decal up to end user choice.

For anybody going to TPF, the CPR Meteor glass is also going to be on display at the Charity Table. Go have a look in person.

Thanks for the clarification Kevin.

I ordered my CPR Meteor glass, standard. After paying, I had second thoughts on getting the red but the standard was shipped the same day and was too late. CPR says the red one is rare but I have an NOS red that I was going to use until I found out that it's missing a window for HSTD? I have to verify as it's been in storage and I don't have access to it at the moment. Did anyone get a red and install it yet? Did CPR leave the window out as original? Does the score display glow brightly through the red window?

BTW, that's a CPR F2K glass in my avatar. Very nice, almost perfect repro. This one was from the 2010ish run.

Let's see some more pics, these things look great. Thanks for posting TZ and TAF. More pics the better

Our red version is made identical on the back to the standard version - except we have the press print the red tint over the score windows, as an added step at the end.

Yes, the original red version doesn't have "High Score To Date" knocked out of the lightblock backside. But ours does. So in other words, our glass is a drop-in choice for *any* Meteor owners. Those who wanted to go in the "red direction" because they simply liked the look, OR because they own a bona fide "red" build of the game from very early in production. Their early backbox won't have a "High Score To Date" bulb behind the glass... therefore it will never light up to show itself.

So both bases are covered with our repro's. Hope this helps.

Nice! I can't wait to get started on my Meteor resto!

Thanks, Kevin. I wanted to be as fair and detailed as possible. It's a world of improvement over the existing glass and if it wasn't going to be I wouldn't have ordered from you. I didn't know this about the credit decal. Do you offer these as well? I'd happily buy a silvered decal from you.

That missing 'credit' in the credit window is peculiar, I was looking at some Bally glasses the other day and they actually (some of them) had a small sticker there, I suppose so that in locations where the credit display would be turned off by dipswitch (I guess for legal reasons) it wouldn't say 'credit' on the glass.

I wonder if there was a version of the Meteor backglass without 'credit' screened on the glass, or maybe for awhile they sold them with a sticker? That was a very large production run on that machine they may have had several glasses over the run.

Edit: Just noticed CPR confirmed that this was the case (it was a decal)

After looking deeper after the review, I found most Meteors do have CREDITS in unremovable mirror, like the one in the review. Our donor-loaner's glass simply didn't. Likely the same reason it didn't have the white planet blob - another vendor, with another set of artwork. So we followed the loaner without batting an eye, as we've seen it on so many Sterns in the past anyway. Even me as a past & present owner of some. So it was intentionally left off due to that. Just wanted to distinguish it was an actual decision, not a miss or error. That's all.

My Lightning, Magic, and Star Gazer backglasses all had the clear decal with white lettering.

Yet my Flight 2000 has it screened on the glass in white ink.

Weird.

We don't make decals here, sorry. Don't have the experience, media, or cutters to do them right. Plus some makers have been out there for over a decade in the decals lane. Could be something up their alley.

Hi, it's a pitty the repro colours to be so dull while they're so bright on the original... But a repro is better than nothing at all or better than a cracked or ghosted backglass... Hope the repro technichs will improve in time and these products to be available in Europe.

I was going to post and point out that my backglass has that 'cloud' and the 'CREDITS' screened on. (Not a decal).

I could really care less about the cloud, but would it be possible to custom order a glass with with mirrored 'CREDITS'? Pllleeeaaassee??

Yep, took my original down to verify and it's not a decal.... the credits lettering is factory mirroring. Interesting to see the different revisions out there, although I'm not an obsessive to that extent.

To Leveeger up above: there were differences in my photography between the two. I can assure you that the colours are not washed out in the reproduction; they are very bright and vibrant. They sections are, however, a bit blurry and not well defined. The well defined edges of the original silkscreening are not present in the reproduction, although this issue is only noticeable when close to the product. Standing in the player's position everything is quite good. Yes, the technology will improve over time and it's already pretty close... but the result obtained by silkscreening the originals will never be perfectly reproduced unless by silkscreening.

A fellow pinsider created a thread not long ago looking for credit decals, but there were no replies. I bumped it again, perhaps others will chime in or someone who makes decals will reply. https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/bally-early-ss-credit-display-decal

If I ever see one of these glasses in the wild and it’s missing the “Credits” I’m going to turn to my pinball friend and make an awesome joke at the owner’s expense!

I will ask the guy in Australia to make the credit decal. Pinball Rescue. I was the one that got them to repro Meteor plastics a while back. They make a nice Stern credit decal for the coin door, I can't see why they wouldn't make one for the backglass. BTW, I received my Meteor glass yesterday. The colors pop, love it. My original is in storage so I can't compare them side by side but if it's not as sharp as original, that's just being anal at this point. I'm glad there's an option to by a glass for a game that almost always has a trashed glass. And for any other repro glass for that matter, it's not like there's a ton of people making them. Especially for a game that has movie rights involved. Not being snarky here, just want to make people see that it's better to be thankful rather than to knit pick the repros.

Email sent to Lee Feldwick for the decal. I will post his reply once received.

Wanted to share some pics of the new CPR backglasses for TZ and TAF. Photos don't do them justice. If I didn't have the games I'd have ordered them anyway to hang on the wall. They are stunning! The mirroring is well done and the colors are deep and rich. These pics were taken with my phone in a completely dark room except for the lights from the machines. I took some from the side as well to give a different perspective. The display looks blurry but that is simply due to the fact that it is a LED and the camera has issues capturing it. I think the black and white display fits well with TZ and TAF. Great job @KevinCPR.

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I heard back from Lee and he agreed to make the credit decals. He said he will start on them this week. If you didn't already know of Pinball Rescue, visit their site. pinballrescue.net

They have some pretty cool stuff and the quality and service are top notch.

Have you got any bulbs out on your TAF? You can barely make out the windows at the top left (Cousin IT) and top right.

EDIT: It's actually pretty dim on the standard translite, hadn't noticed how much dimmer it was. Ignore me

Thank you for sharing and they look great! Do you happen to have a picture of Cousin It lit up too?

How are those credit decals applied? Are they just stickers, or waterslide?

I have an ALPS printer that can do silver/chrome foil which might achieve the desired look. But those would be waterslide on top of the glass.

I'll try and get some more shots tonight. I'll put the game in test mode and see what I can capture.

Just ordered a Twilight Zone. Can’t wait to see what it looks like in person!