Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
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New member here. My machine is still in the US. It will ship to New Zealand in the next few weeks. I am planning to buy some LED from comet LEDs. So far I am not sure what I need but I am sure all the club members here will give me some good advice in the nearest future 
Hi Koji
Thank you. I saw your T3’s pictures. It looks fantastic. I really like your back glass, especially at the T-X image, it has the blue colour at the back but still has the metal look at the same time. Plus the word “terminator” has the light blue effect (I think). In general, I would like to have the same look as your T3.
If possible, can you let me know what colour of LEDs bulbs you used behind the backglass? Perhaps if u could remove the glass and take a picture of the backboard that would be great.
Thank you in advance
Pinrookie
3FD7ACF4-4D44-4A79-9EE2-B8EF4A1094AA (resized).jpegQuoted from koji:Sure here you go,
Looks like clear white in the back. Frosted white on the front.
Thanks-
Thank you
Quoted from MustangPaul:Welcome to the club. When you get your game make sure the underside of the inserts are clean and use 2 smd clear dome white in all the inserts. The insert lettering will be easy to read and the inserts will sparkle like a new Stern. Frosted clear dome 2 smd bulbs under all topside plastics also. You don't want to color bomb the great art of the plastics or pf.
Thank you. I just placed my order. Hopefully I can post a few pictures here in the next few weeks! This is my 1st Steve Ritchie designed pinball machine. I am super excited.
Quoted from MustangPaul:Welcome to the club. A suggestion, replace the white bulb in the spotlight facing the skull and replace it with a clear dome blue and place a Comet 7 led red strip on the backside of the ramp just below the spotlight. I did that on mine and it looks great.
Thank you for the suggestions. 
Quoted from ZfromEarth:I need a help. I replaced the flip coils ( both )coil sleeves, coil stop etc... and now buzzing the both flip.
I believe your new coil sleeves may caused this buzzing issue. I had the same issue with my Ironman. My solution was swapping a few coil sleeves unit the buzzing sound was gone. I know it is a pain but I sorted this buzzing issue at the end. Good luck.
Quoted from ZfromEarth:I replaced back the old coil, coil sleeves, coil stop ect...and the buzzing noise is same.
Oh! I thought you put the old coil back but with new sleeves in it.
Anyway hope this link help:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/right-flipper-buzzing
At one stage I put a brass coil sleeves at my ironman. The good news was buzzing sound was completely gone but it reduced the coil strength at the same time. Beware this was just my experiment. Unfortunately Stern pinball machine trend to have this problem 
After I played my T3 for a few weeks. I decided to light up the RPG corner at the back glass. I am using these two products from Comet pinball.
https://www.cometpinball.com/products/quick-connects
https://www.cometpinball.com/products/lighting-strips
So far I like the result. Obviously my pictures are not that great but it looks little nicer when you standing in front of the machine.
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Quoted from CyberNinja24:I have mine close to 7.0 which is higher than the bubble on the level in the game.
Skill shot: ours comes out of the ramp and will often rest on the area where the post can come up, just left of the three rollovers at the top right. Anyone else have that happen
Welcome to the club. I don’t have this problem with my machine. My game is setting at 6.5
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