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Have any of you that have received your Star Trek Pin tried any different colored flipper rubbers?
I'm thinking blue or purple might look nice?
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pretty sure ed_in_texas did his LE with purple top and two blue in the bottom. I haven't as I'm saving cash for the mirror universe build.
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I actually went with orange on the bottom. Nice and bright, ties in the orange shoot again. Upper is purple to go with surrounding area. I also put a Cliff light blue post near the spinner instead of single rubber ring and 2 yellow at the vengeance entrance.
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I had blue super bands on my STLE... They look great but I had to take them off because they were causing air balls/excessive ball speeds. I don't fully understand why but super bands almost make my machines feel like I put hotter flipper coils in them. If you could turn down the coil strength on STLE it would be great otherwise something is gunna get broken IMHO
Another vote for air balls from Super Bands, put some green ones on my LOTR, never had air balls before, now they are not common but seen. Have even put a few off the glass. Bashing Balrog is easier now though.
Quoted from nosro:I thought that this was an option in the menu.
I didn't see it in the options menu, can anyone confirm if flipper coils strength is adjustable on STLE?
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I went for 'matching' Orange upper (but red or purple would probably work too) and Blue bottom.
Quite like the contrast or Nosro's Orange bottom bands tho 
I do have the Pinball Refinery metallic blue apron tho so the blue bands really match with that.
Either way I think the colours definitely rule over black 
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If you are like me and failed art class, here's a color wheel. A contrasting color is on the opposite side of the wheel. Therefore, a color that contrasts well with blue is orange and a color that contrasts well with red is green. The ultimate contrasting color setup might be to have orange on the bottom, but green on the upper flipper (since it is near a lot of red).
Quoted from nosro:If you are like me and failed art class, here's a color wheel. A contrasting color is on the opposite side of the wheel. Therefore, a color that contrasts well with blue is orange and a color that contrasts well with red is green. The ultimate contrasting color setup might be to have orange on the bottom, but green on the upper flipper (since it is near a lot of red)
Damn you man, you brought logic into this conversation. 
I like the orange a lot. I might try both yellow (nearby purple) and green (nearby red) to see how they look.
I added the orange lowers today and it looks great. I will pick up yellow and green at TPF to test for the upper.
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Quoted from FullBlown:Im going to go with these with Light Blue Rubbers
I actually tried those first, but unfortunately they don't match the LE armor (color) at all so I ended up using the transparent ones instead, which are more neutral. BTW, I love the PDI products, I have bought stuff from them for more than 6K USD over the last year.
Quoted from nosro:Orange on the bottom flippers to contrast with the blue playfield, yellow on the upper flipper to contrast with the purple plastics.
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Ya know that actually looks pretty good! Might switch out my blue superbands in the same manner!
I put white super bands on, looked cool, but the game is so bouncy and stupid fast, I needed more control at the flippers and less ''sticky'' for rolls in and what not. Put the white on my RBION with purple trans bats, where that game is more of an aim, stop and shoot pin and love it.
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