I dunno but their new frosteds are 2LED so maybe these are wider.

I believe Melissa has mentioned this recently in another thread. It's being corrected from their supplier and I'm sure if you contact her she can make it right and help ya out

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Can you post a comparison picture?

They are wider and they are working on a fix. Melissa from Cointaker chimed in recently:
http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/cointaker-issues

I had the same problem for the GI on an older Gottlieb. Luckily, I have a 1" belt sander and carefully sanded off the extra around the fatter part. Only took a few minutes and they still worked fine. I look forward to the new taller/skinner LEDs like the old design.

I was just about to order a bunch. Should I wait?

Thanks for posting that. Was curious to see how much difference.

Reminds me of having to grind down replacement auto parts to make them fit. One reason I no longer care to repair cars!

I got some of the fat design ones and they don't fit. Going to try sanding em down.

I don't even understand the need for those rings. Cheap Chinese way of substituting for epoxy?

Will they fit if you drop the holder and install from under playfield?

Not like they should! The playfield is how thick?

............I just finished shopping out my Shrek and also had this problem of the LED not fitting in the hole.

Too big for the.............................................

I dont get the thick part. If you put the bulb in the holder and install the holder with tbe bulb already in it, it would be at it's normal height.
I had a problem where the bulbs under my bsd slings had to be installed this way. The hole in the playfield is big.enough to house the bulb once its in the holder, there just isnt enough room for play to twist it in from up top. I believe the instructions recommended this method.

I'm really glad for this post- I was this close to checkout on cointaker.
I hate to have to send things back.

Hey guys, the standard frosted 2-led bulbs are in the process of being remolded...we have some colors in stock, but not all. The premium frosted's cannot be remolded, unfortunately.

If you have any that you want to send back for no fit, please call and let me know.

Melissa
570-847-9595

Same happened to me, posted about it a few months ago.

http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/bought-cointaker-frosted-leds-for-gi-in-smb-dont-seem-to-fit

CoinTaker did the right thing and shipped me new bulbs.

These are made in China?? Thought they were made here in the USA.

Wait, so am I hearing that the premium frosteds won't work for GI? Is this an issue with only some titles or what? Can anybody give some specifics on diameter so we can avoid ordering something we can't use?

If I had to guess, they come from Shenzhen Chengming in China. (Based on google searching). If you wanted to get them significantly cheaper, you might look into that.

From my experience premiums are not necessary for GI. I use the regular frosteds

As usual, the best customer service in the hobby. They will always get my business. And, two of the nicest people you will ever deal with.

I had the same problem with stargate .I tried to remove the thick ridge and the top came off.
I sent the rest back. They are in the process of replacing them with thinner ones.
Good communication and customer service.

Does anybody know if this situation has been completely resolved yet (no more oversized bulbs being sent out). I think I'd like to place my order now.

Notice in that picture that the bayonet hooks are much better made on the 'fat' bulbs .. they are properly sized and positioned. The narrow style is much more like the Ablaze ones where the dimple is so large and higher up, making it very hard to insert into stubborn sockets where the spring doesn't properly compress into the bottom hole. This in turn leads to much more force needed to insert and given the overall quality of the CT tops, tons of needless loosening and possible shorts/broken wires.

I just ordered a sample set of all the CT stuff in one color in bayonet. A dismal 6 of 18 arrived with loose tops, and another 2 opened up after only a few insert/removal tries. One broke off the soldered wire inside and now is useles. Others I super glued before trying multiple insert/removals. Compare this with a large order of Ablaze 1 LED frosteds... only two of 120 arrived loose and only 1 other loosened after multiple uses. And those were 28 c each vs 79 c (or more) each!

I need to order over 250 frosted in the near future now that I've narrowed my selection down to that style.

I hope they can address three quality areas before I order that large amount (and communicate that with us once available)
- Lenses/Rings narrower again
- Bayonet flanges better sized/positioned (as it appears on the fatter ones)
- Tops securely glued from factory so I dont have to superglue to prevent breakage.

Doubtfull...I just ordered some 2 weeks ago and it was the same thing. For the record mine where single frosteds. I just got the dremmel out and took care of it in a minute.

My only complaint about Ablaze ... they don't have a warm white. The regular white is too blue.

Yeah I never understood that.

Agree and really agree!

For inserts, the tinted blue "cool white" frosted 1 LED ablaze worked great for me on my high speed. It shifted yellows from amber/orange back to yellow, oranges from rust red back to orange, and clears from amber to a cool grey-ish white.

However (as I did GI testing) they also are very flickery with any physical eye movement and compared to almost all other leds, very blueish, so I couldn't use them outside of controlled inserts.

They have the f-ing bright 4 SMD's now in warm white; I really wish they could do those frosted singles in warm white.

However, after sampling the CT frosteds which worked MUCH better in illuminating the highly angled large inserts better, I may be switching the entire thing over to those, both for controlled (already as Ablaze) as well as PF and backbox GI which I'm doing next. But I dont want to make the inserts blinding, and why only the CT frosted could be my only option next to the Ablaze's.

Exactly what is needed to do if they won't Fit .. I suggest calling or Email-n Chris or Melissa before you make an Order for Frosted's and make Sure the New Style is available ..

I swear by Cointaker leds. I would suggest their retro bulbs for GI. They are awesome.

Not sure I feel like dremmeling 100+ bulbs, so maybe a phonecall is in order. Let me know what you find out BR.

If they are 44s you're already being saved a ton of time not having to bend the metal contacts of the 555s...so there's time saved!

Just Talked w/ Chris ,, The New Frosted's are still being Tooled down from the manufacturer . I also told him to tell them to put some Xtra Glue around the Cap !! Chris said " He's gonna get out his Whip and crack an Azz " Just have Faith in CoinTaker ,,, I do !!!

Let them use the dremmel!

Oh by the way- Thanks again BR!

Actually, go check PBL now. Ablaze 1 LED flat or frosted (not concave yet) are now available in both cool AND WARM white!

Just saw them appear tonight.

I had this same issue with the F2K GI's. These frosted bulbs were way too large. CT gave me a refund without hesitation. Great customer service as well.

555 LED's are the worst IMHO. Well atleast with the early Bally 555 sockets used on games like EBD, Fathom etc. My first EBD resto was nightmare with the LED's. My fingers were sore from the force needed to insert them. Then half of them weren't lighting. even the retro LED in 555 were very hard to get into the sockets although once in, they did light better. On my 2nd EBD resto, I changed all the sockets to bayonet(44's) and life was much better.