I just finished fitting a transparent disc and rubber set. The disc is putting crazy spin and speed on the ball ( as expected! ) but its a little too crazy I think, making Gem shots for me and even spinning halfway up the left ramp. Will it calm down a bit with use?

No such thing with TRON

I know what you are saying, I was all for speeding it up but you have to draw the line somewhere...I can see this thing breaking plastics. One of the first balls that shot out of it managed to burrow under a slingshot rubber as the ball sort refuge under a slingshot plastic.

Dude...wtf? Your game sounds like sex with a girl who just broke up with her boyfriend and wants revenge.
Get yourself some plastic protectors,"Time Now" and ride through that "strange."

Maybe you can take some of the black disc grime and rub it on the clear disc to slow it down.

The spinning disc is the best feature of Tron, so more spinning is more bester.

We're playing Tron on Twitch at 8:30 Eastern tonight. It's got the clear disc and rubbers so I hope that's ok. http://www.twitch.tv/buffalopinball

I sold my pro yesterday.

I'll just have to make do with the LE

Live is better because you can hang out and chat with your fellow citizens of The Grid but it will be saved on our Twitch page as a "past broadcast" for like two weeks after the broadcast.

We typically only archive our Thursday "Bro, do you even pinball?" shows on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/buffalopinball). We featured Tron already but it was pre-clear disc and rubbers

so you are paying for this.... correct??

Pinball center has nice clear rings, no need to wait on superbands

I ordered a set of translucent rubbers from Titan Pinball, I can update on those with some pics once they arrive and I get them installed.

Let us know how the Titan rings feel.

Titans are a different blend of silicone, from what I understand. I've used them before on someone else's machine and they feel more like traditional rubbers. That being said, superbands might be better because they grip better and when that ball comes spinning out of the disc like a mofo, you might want that extra grip. I don't know, we'll see!

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I put them on my game last week. They're great. Super bouncy. 2" is probably too tight for slings, I had one sling arm pop out of the rubber in the middle of a great game.

I had Pinballcenter ones on my LAST Tron....they do NOT feel like normal rubber. They're hard, and extremely aggressive action on the slings. Don't bounce or feel like standard rubber IMO.

I like both, don't get me wrong, but I very much prefer the Titans.

Differences in flipper rubber seem very well discussed, Titan vs. Super Bands vs. conventional rubbers. There seems to be consensus on what the differences are.

I'm not sure if there is a consensus on Titan rings vs. conventional rings vs. Pinball Center vs. Pinball Life translucent rings. I've certainly noticed that some of these have a distinct lack of bounce, but I haven't heard uniform assessment on the others.

WCW - woman crush wednesday

my crush today is all about quorra ..... who do you choose??

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https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/tron-tutorial-from-papa-pinball-and-bowen-kerins

Titan - Silicone
Super bands - urethane, generally harder than silicone
Pinball life - PerfectPlay flipper bands are silicone. The rest are likely rubber or urethane based
Pinball Center - Reviewers note they are stiffer than Titans, so likely they are urethane

Based on the materials you should have a good idea how they perform.

I am referring to playfield rings, not flipper rubbers. So, for example, Perfect Play does not yet have a line of rings.

There would appear to still be a great range in adjustability in stiffness based on the discussion in the Titan rings thread. Furthermore, in my experience, Super Band flipper rubbers are less bouncy than standard rubbers, but Super Band mini-posts are MORE bouncy than standard rubbers. Generalizing based on material alone seems to be problematic.

Beat me to it

But I'll do seconds

Hey, where is Quorra's right hand?

Is anyone else with the clear disc having issues with the ball moving so fast, probably with a lot of backspin, that its getting under the sling rubber? Its happened to be twice in the few days since I fitted the disc. I have pinball center transparent rubbers fitted, 2" to the slings.

Tron is coming. To save me searching everywhere in this awesome thread. Best

To save me searching everywhere in this awesome thread Mr Flank where is the best place to get the clear disc and is there anything else i need. Adhesive? I am not sure if it still has the old black one but i hate a messy game so it will have to be upgraded ASAP.

2 days to go.......I love LAMP but TRON even more.

Yes, but I'm taking preventive measures. To try and slow things down would be FUCT UP. Just in case "the strange" starts breaking things, I purchased a spare ramp from MARCO. Plastics can be protected and re-made, but ramps suck when broken. Also grabbed a bottle of El Dorado 12yr (never fails).

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Sounds like a plan. I'll keep you posted CF.

Hmm...I didn't used any additional adhesive, can I expect mine to fly off in the middle of my league meet this weekend?

exactly

pics please... is this similar to the ol' wax on wax off??

totally agree... TRON is one sexy bitch!

Thanks centerflank. Much appreciated. Glad this baby is fully moded as the prices we are paying here for mods, parts, colour DMD's is getting insane. Last DMD was $740Aud. Ouch.

Switched outfits again, I see.

On occasion my game will shut down as if the ball had drained--when it is still on the playfield. Then the ball does drain and it moves on to the next ball--happy as a clam. Any ideas of what I should to check to stop this error?

This seems to be a standard Stern problem that is probably made worse if you have a shaker motor. I've had this exact same thing happen on other Stern machines as well.

Stern actually sells a repair kit for this problem if the zip ties don't work

Quorra spotted at NBA all star festivities!