Cherryville, NC
1/2 inch.
(Topic ID: 62464)
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Metallica (Pro)
Stern, 2013
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2 weeks later
Has anyone created a template for cutting the plastics? Just a little nervous about this step. Heck , for a second I even thought about purchasing the entire LE plastic set from Marco.
Quoted from waldo34:Has anyone created a template for cutting the plastics? Just a little nervous about this step. Heck , for a second I even thought about purchasing the entire LE plastic set from Marco.
Try it first!.Then if you fail.Purchase the LE plastics.
Quoted from HOOKED:If you have a wheel grinder, it will make short work of it and will look like a factory cut.
Anyone late to get in I have 7 sets of spinner left, last run unless the code is cracked.
I purchased a set of plastic protectors that are based off of the LE plastics, it made for a nice template for the left spinner. I used a dremel for this thinking it would be easier. The right side doesn't have a plastic protector though, I tried shaping it with the dremel but after trying the grinder wheel it is definitely the way to go. For the right side plastic I had to go back to the grinder wheel and keep taking off a little more at a time to make it fit. All in all, I took off a lot more plastic on the right side than I thought I would need to.
.....Hmmm I could take my LE plastics, scan them so you guys have a template to cut your pro ones. I just need to take apart the game some. There are 4 plastics, 2 per side, lower and upper that are cut to fit. I should of thought of this before installing them fully :-p Otherwise I'll just take pic's showing where.
Decided to go for it, turns out using the photos already posted (thanks Mudflaps) it was pretty easy. Hookup is next, can't wait to try it tonight.
Quoted from waldo34:Decided to go for it, turns out using the photos already posted (thanks Mudflaps) it was pretty easy. Hookup is next, can't wait to try it tonight.
Hope it plays great for you Waldo, I miss it already.
Quoted from northvibe:.....Hmmm I could take my LE plastics, scan them so you guys have a template to cut your pro ones. I just need to take apart the game some. There are 4 plastics, 2 per side, lower and upper that are cut to fit. I should of thought of this before installing them fully :-p Otherwise I'll just take pic's showing where.
I think having some pictures that would give folks trying to do this some visual cues on where to cut would be helpful..
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, j/k , you did a good job, those spinners are great, they should have been installed in the first place
2 weeks later
I still have two sets and spare spinner decals if anyone is interested.
I don't plan on running the spinners again unless there are 10 people interested.
The spinner decals I will be putting on my site in 2016.
Thanks
Robert
Quoted from HOOKED:I still have two sets and spare spinner decals if anyone is interested.
I don't plan on running the spinners again unless there are 10 people interested.
The spinner decals I will be putting on my site in 2016.
Thanks
Robert
Ok. I will give this a try.
1 set please 
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Regina, SK
Sydney, Oz
Quoted from Gorno:Has anyone attempted to add these spinners to the existing code? I know nothing about modifying code, so please be gentle
No, that can't be done unfortunately.
Do we know if Lyman even knows about possibly turning on the two switches in the Pro code?
I know it will probably never even happen. But it certainly will not if he has never been politely asked.
Quoted from TimeBandit:No, that can't be done unfortunately.
Is this due to the code being encrypted/proprietary software? Or are we speaking about some sort of copyright infringement?
Quoted from Gorno:Is this due to the code being encrypted/proprietary software? Or are we speaking about some sort of copyright infringement?
It's binary code. For all intents and purposes unmodifiable without source code. Stern could do it in five minutes if they so chose.
Quoted from TimeBandit:It's binary code. For all intents and purposes unmodifiable without source code. Stern could do it in five minutes if they so chose.
So, we are hooped. Unless someone knows Mr. Sheets and calls in a favour.
Quoted from Gorno:So, we are hooped. Unless someone knows Mr. Sheets and calls in a favour.
Best you can hope for are lights and sounds attached. And either wrong scoring or no scoring.
I would love for someone to document instructions or measurement so we dont f are plastics up. Also is everyone drilling there playfield for the install? Hooked what did you do? I just bought a grinder for this install but still am a little unsure.
Harley D.
Quoted from shovelhed:I would love for someone to document instructions or measurement so we dont f are plastics up. Also is everyone drilling there playfield for the install? Hooked what did you do? I just bought a grinder for this install but still am a little unsure.
Harley D.
Back in this thread, there are some pictures where people took a dremel and cut. I was going to scan my plastics so people could use them as a template. I have the LE/Prem plastics so I just mounted the spinners in that location and didn't cut plastics.
Quoted from shovelhed:I would love for someone to document instructions or measurement so we dont f are plastics up. Also is everyone drilling there playfield for the install? Hooked what did you do? I just bought a grinder for this install but still am a little unsure.
Harley D.
I wanted to mention that you don't have to cut the plastic on the lower right side spinner, you can just remove it completely. I haven't had any issues with that solution in 300+ games. I actually prefer it since I have an LED mod back there. 
The left one does need the rectangular cut.
1 week later
so i have this awesome and beautiful spinners to thx Hooked
But the "drumroll" ist really deep - has someone changed the picktarget sound in pinball browser? I can't find the correct request. Maybe someone can tell me the request for spinners in the LE-Version and the Picktarget request in the Pro version.
Hope you can help me.
Thank you
Quoted from MightyGrave:so i have this awesome and beautiful spinners to thx Hooked
But the "drumroll" ist really deep - has someone changed the picktarget sound in pinball browser? I can't find the correct request. Maybe someone can tell me the request for spinners in the LE-Version and the Picktarget request in the Pro version.
Hope you can help me.
Thank you
That is a good idea and I'm sure someone has already done it.
Would love to know the sound request numbers on both machines as well.
I have no idea what the spinner sounds like on the LE or I would just go find it myself.
Quoted from Arcade:That is a good idea and I'm sure someone has already done it.
Would love to know the sound request numbers on both machines as well.
I have no idea what the spinner sounds like on the LE or I would just go find it myself.
could we use pinbrowser, take the current file out, raise the sound level and put it back in?
Quoted from markmon:But the orbits get hit all the time by accident
Do the pick targets only get hit by deliberate aimed shots, never accidentally by rebound?
I would bet that a super shitty player flailing away could hit the targets easier than the spinner.
Quoted from RTS:Do the pick targets only get hit by deliberate aimed shots, never accidentally by rebound?
I would bet that a super shitty player flailing away could hit the targets easier than the spinner.
hahhaha. This debate about it making the pics easier is ridiculous. I am not a good player, but I've on average get 2 peoples pics now instead of one. Soooo this isn't giving giant advantages.
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