Are there any coupon codes going?
Quoted from Titan_Pinball:pinside always gets 10% off silicone, balls and a few other things. TITAN10 is the code
Drafts, didn't know that and just placed an order....
Got it. Thanks Titan. I'm slowly changing all my machines over I really like the look and performance.
Just had a Superband flipper rubber snap on me on a route game. Haven't seen this problem with Titan flipper rubbers, FYI.
Quoted from Titan_Pinball:Ill throw something extra in there
TITAN rocks!!! Slowly switched all mine over...its BM66LE time!!!
For the record, going on a year with our Titans in our Solar Ride... still going quite strong! I think that we'll definitely be ordering more silicon in the future, particularly if we get a second machine.
Just bought a bunch of white LEDs to replace the Comet frosted LEDs we bought last year... those had faded (pre ownership change), and decided to try a batch from Titan. Nice warm white, practically yellow.
Quoted from Crash:Just had a Superband flipper rubber snap on me on a route game. Haven't seen this problem with Titan flipper rubbers, FYI.
I recently had a titan flipper rubber snap on my route metallica, but it took a while id say it had 1200-1500 plays on it.
Out of curiosity does anyone else have frequent braking with the clears? They brake 2-3x more often any other color i have, and its not a number of plays things as i have monitored the machines. Im not complaining, just curious, i still love the clear is just looks so good on some machines.
Quoted from Dr-Willy:I recently had a titan flipper rubber snap on my route metallica, but it took a while id say it had 1200-1500 plays on it.
Out of curiosity does anyone else have frequent braking with the clears? They brake 2-3x more often any other color i have, and its not a number of plays things as i have monitored the machines. Im not complaining, just curious, i still love the clear is just looks so good on some machines.
I've had a couple start to split, rotated them and have had no more splitting. It's weird cause on the new orientation of the rings they haven't split at all and they have thousands of plays more that the original orientation. These were both slingshot rings that were splitting right where you post pass.
Quoted from chuckwurt:I've had a couple start to split, rotated them and have had no more splitting. It's weird cause on the new orientation of the rings they haven't split at all and they have thousands of plays more that the original orientation. These were both slingshot rings that were splitting right where you post pass.
this is where mine always snap also.
Quoted from Dr-Willy:this is where mine always snap also.
That is where my normal rubbers tend to break as well. I always assumed that it was due to it being the main pressure point on that rubber.
Quoted from dsuperbee:That is where my normal rubbers tend to break as well. I always assumed that it was due to it being the main pressure point on that rubber.
Thats understandable, however why is clear breaking more then all the others when the others have more plays on them?
Quoted from Dr-Willy:Thats understandable, however why is clear breaking more then all the others when the others have more plays on them?
I've no idea. I only have two clears on the slings on my Gilligans. They have had few plays but have held up well so far.
Quoted from Dr-Willy:Thats understandable, however why is clear breaking more then all the others when the others have more plays on them?
Or when one part of the ring splits then after rotation no more splittage. Weird.
Quoted from Deafcon:Just re-ringed my GB Premium with a mix of glow and clear. Much better compared to the black factory rings.
Those flippers look pretty great with gitd. Similarly transparent pink would look cool.
Quoted from jyeakley:Any idea when the 3/16 glow rings (CS-316ID-GL) will be back in stock?
Sorry! Missed that one. They are in transit now along with red flipper, 1" clear and many others. I hope no more than 2 weeks.
I did my Stern Star Trek LE in Blue on Sunday.....Looks and plays amazing. Did my The Walking Dead LE in Red today, also looks and plays awesome! I love Titan. This weekend I plan to do Ghostbusters LE in Green and Game of Thrones LE in Yellow.
Waiting on the Stern slim post sleeves in Pink to finish out my The Simpsons Pinball Party in all Pink. Awesome!
Quoted from Titan_Pinball:Sorry! Missed that one. They are in transit now along with red flipper, 1" clear and many others. I hope no more than 2 weeks.
No worries. Thanks for the reply!
Quoted from chuckwurt:Or when one part of the ring splits then after rotation no more splittage. Weird.
That is weird. One thing I have really learned about the silicone is that if a ring starts to split (not fraying or abrasion), it usually fails very quickly. This can be a result of wear if your rings have a lot of games on them or it's a ring that gets hit hard often. I have seen some natural rubber slings that are soooo close to breaking on a game, and they lasted another hundred games. Fraying or abrasion usually holds up for a while, but a fray can turn to a split. I have 2" glow slings on GB Prem and the corners by the flippers are getting rally beat up. These rings are up to about 900 games (guessing), but the thing is they play just fine still. AFM has the same frayed corners on the little ring by the pop bumpers. I reset it around Oct 15 and it's at 1527 plays. Still going strong! So, my experience has been that as the rubber wears and shows fraying or abrasion, the silicone performs at least as good or better as would a worn natural rubber. I think due to how shiny and bright the silicone is, it's much more obvious when a ring starts to show wear. We're about to do a Safe Cracker so we'll keep track of audits and observations on it too...
Regardless, if you have any issues, don't hesitate to ask ([email protected]) and if rings break or do any other weird shit, and they are not 8-10 months or older, please let me know and I will send you a replacement!
Quoted from EricHadley:Waiting on the Stern slim
Those are in this shipment too as are the Stern slim glow.
Quoted from Titan_Pinball:That is weird. One thing I have really learned about the silicone is that if a ring starts to split (not fraying or abrasion), it usually fails very quickly. This can be a result of wear if your rings have a lot of games on them or it's a ring that gets hit hard often. I have seen some natural rubber slings that are soooo close to breaking on a game, and they lasted another hundred games. Fraying or abrasion usually holds up for a while, but a fray can turn to a split. I have 2" glow slings on GB Prem and the corners by the flippers are getting rally beat up. These rings are up to about 900 games (guessing), but the thing is they play just fine still. AFM has the same frayed corners on the little ring by the pop bumpers. I reset it around Oct 15 and it's at 1527 plays. Still going strong! So, my experience has been that as the rubber wears and shows fraying or abrasion, the silicone performs at least as good or better as would a worn natural rubber. I think due to how shiny and bright the silicone is, it's much more obvious when a ring starts to show wear. We're about to do a Safe Cracker so we'll keep track of audits and observations on it too...
Regardless, if you have any issues, don't hesitate to ask ([email protected]) and if rings break or do any other weird shit, and they are not 8-10 months or older, please let me know and I will send you a replacement!
Thanks! I have these on all 8 of my games and with the exception of one or two, I have seen no wear. Love these things!!
Doing my JM now - wife suggested the yellow and I have to say it really goes well with the playfield yellow accents. This is my first machine in Titan silicone and next is my wife's Baywatch in red. Thanks again Heather and Eric for the order fix - bagged up the GITD order and it's in the mail tomorrow back to you.
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Looks great! I love a playfield accent color brought out by the rings. If I can ever get un-covered up by work, I have access to so many machines that got the full custom color treatment. It would be awesome to document and share those...
Quoted from Titan_Pinball:Looks great! I love a playfield accent color brought out by the rings. If I can ever get un-covered up by work, I have access to so many machines that got the full custom color treatment. It would be awesome to document and share those...
Stop being jerks, buying his rings and all. Everyone boycott for a few days until we get the pics!
Quoted from patrickvc:Is there a difference in how stretchy or soft the different colors are? I just started rerubbering my BSD in red with a couple green around the mist and I'm finding the green are more stretchy and softer. The red are harder and aren't easier to stretch
They aren't supposed to be. Are the rings different sizes? The larger the ring the more it can stretch...
It was the 2 inch rings. They just felt a bit different. I'm sure it's just me I do love how they look and play.
Quoted from Titan_Pinball:Sorry! Missed that one. They are in transit now along with red flipper, 1" clear and many others. I hope no more than 2 weeks.
Still looking like these will be back in stock this week?
We hit a snag with shipping and it's looking like they will arrive in Dallas on or about the 19th of February. This go around has been frustrating, but this was a huge order this time around. The good news is with the size of this order, we should solve any more of this "running out of popular size/color rings" nonsense.
I do have ALL led's back in stock as well as lockbar receiver finishers...
I've also had more problems with the clear rings snapping on routed games. Games that are only on location for maybe a month.
Quoted from Titan_Pinball:Just FYI I was tinkering with safecracker flipper rubber and our thin flipper fits great. The standard flipper bows out, like natural rubber does. Thin flipper is 1mm thinner than standard.
Is the purpose of the thinner rubber to reduce the bowing or is there some other reason for it?
Yes I've ordered these and there cool a true test of strength putting them on 3" flippers. But this is a straight up display of vanity over practicality. Nothing beats white rubber in my opinion, I use superband posts and I shouldn't. It's hard to explain but I just think as cool as silicone is, and glow in the dark rings would be sweet, but I just cant give up that supple white rubber it just not nearly as rigid and deflects the ball with that supple caress instead of a brick wall lol.
Quoted from DCFAN:Is the purpose of the thinner rubber to reduce the bowing or is there some other reason for it?
I use it for slight ball hop issues too.
Not sure if I'm placing chuckwurt's icon correctly, but can't help but thinking this when I see it: "Doctor, doctor, doctor, doctor, doctor, doctor, doctor, and doctor. Well, did we miss anybody?"
Quoted from Mr_Tantrum:Not sure if I'm placing chuckwurt's icon correctly, but can't help but thinking this when I see it: "Doctor, doctor, doctor, doctor, doctor, doctor, doctor, and doctor. Well, did we miss anybody?"
Right actor wrong movie it's from Fletch
Quoted from chuckwurt:Right actor wrong movie it's from Fletch
Thought that might be the case, but if I ever want to laugh out loud I spin up Spies Like Us from the NAS - one of my favorites.
Quoted from DCFAN:Is the purpose of the thinner rubber to reduce the bowing or is there some other reason for it?
It has a bit less bounce, so I have it on a couple of games where I didn't like the way the standard felt.
Quoted from herg:It has a bit less bounce, so I have it on a couple of games where I didn't like the way the standard felt.
A little less bounce might be good for certain games with narrow shots. I might try some on SM.
I just installed a full set of Titan rings on my FunHouse, all white. And I went with blue and green flipper rubbers since the reds were out of stock. But I love it! This is my second full game using all Titans and at least to me, the silicone feels identical to the new white rubber kit I had in there initially. I'd like to try the thinner flipper rubbers to compare, but so far I'm very pleased. I had used Super Band Flippers and Rings in the past, but definitely prefer the Titans. (Also, silicone flipper rubber is so much easier to stretch onto the bats! I about broke my fingers trying to put the urethane SBs on in the past. I did enjoy the SBs, but they did have a very large effect on how the games played as opposed to classic rubber, whereas the Titan silicone feels much more natural to me.)
Just got a Metallica Premium, would like to fit it out with all titans. What color are people doing on these? I'm leaning towards purple.....
Quoted from PinRob:Titan, How's the delayed shipment coming along? Is it reallly going to be Feb 19th?
unfortunatly there is no telling when customs is involved
Quoted from DCFAN:Is the purpose of the thinner rubber to reduce the bowing or is there some other reason for it?
The intent was to get a little bit less bounce. Great for control players...
Quoted from Titan_Pinball:unfortunatly there is no telling when customs is involved
The intent was to get a little bit less bounce. Great for control players...
Thanks. I will include some in my next order.
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