Where are the additional LEDs in the CE? All for behind backbox and below cabinet or on the playfield as well?

Has anybody already installed mirror blades? Or is it light overkill?

What happens when you are in a song MB and the song ends? During MB you have no chance to collect the song jackpot.

I played the GnR yesterday for a longer time. I had the impression that the flipper fingers are quite weak even being one or two points higher than factory. We raised the power until close to max., which increased the power a bit, but far away from the more direct feel of Stern flipper fingers. Getting up the left ramp is just ok, but sometimes a real pain due to missing power, at least after some gameplay.

Is that just my impression or do you recognize the same issue?

Played it last week and noticed that they put small metal washers under the small metal posts putside the sling area. I think that is different from POTC.

I am wondering that what I see no discussion regarding rules is going on. The general rules are clear, collecting band members for a song, playing the song for an album mod. But what happens during a song? Are there different jackpots for each song? What to shoot for in a song? What influences the score/jackpot value in a song?

Is there any source to have an idea how they are installed? I found nothing on YouTube nor on the PinkMonk Website. Is there a picture of the installation guide? There are holes in the plastic fan guides, do you screw them in the wood?

Thank you very much, that is very helpful!

I thought of adding metal or plastic washers and put a silicon washer below those. Then you have a hard surface for the post and the pressure is spread to the wider metal/plastic washer. But the pressure there is smoothed down by the silicon washer below and thus the playfield gets less pressure from any ball contact at the post.

The two posts without rubber would not be influenced (except if you put rubbers on them for additional protection reasons what I plan to do) and the other 2 posts with rubbers in the bumper section have metal washers anyway and an additional silicon washer should not matter, because the silicon is pressed together anyway. Additionally, I have a playfield protector on it, so that the post level is adjusted by teh silicon to that increased playfield level.

The only thing that bothers me is the question whether you damage the clear/art work, when screwing out a post that has no washer; if it is drilled into the clear, the post may already be connected with the clear so that you damage more than you may win. Any experience in this regard?

From the pictures in #10777 you can see that the LE got black washers for the sling posts and metal washers for the other posts. In other pictures there were clear washers and only some metal washers. I am a bit confused why JJP changes the washer type. Do you leave the black ones in? Do you swap all (black and metal) for silicone or petg ones?

Ok, thank you for your feedback. Do you get airballs from the slings, because the black washers seem to be quite high?

There is an unused connection on the sound board, if you have an LE. I think it is light green and should be the sound output für the CE soundbar, which is not existing for the LE. I plugged the external sub in that output for 2 cinch connectors in the low level input of the sub.

The longer post does not necessarily require a nut from below. I replaced the short one with the long one and put a silicon washer under the metal factory washer. After screwing in the post still has some free movement in the wood (was discussed earlier here already). To improve that I wrapped a small (0,5 cm) of clear tape around the part of the post, which is the upper part below the small „platform“ of the post. That lowers the gap between the post and the wood hole. You can adjust that very well by try and error until the movement is close to zero.

If anyone thinks that

Does anybody know how the booster MB affect the song value. On the one hand you can max each booster MB, which means that you shoot the necessary shots. Does this alone increase the song value (except number of locked balls)? Or does the jackpots achieved during the booster MB count only or additionally? Sometimes I wonder that the song value is not so high, even if I have maxed out each booster MB

...sorry ignore the first partial sentence. Don`t know where this comes from....

I start with Fender, followed by Duff skull and Vater (both important during songs) then bra and underwear for double bonus for the rest of the game. In later stages of the play I go for Gibson and Marshall to complete the sponsor set of the 4 sponsors, which light extra ball (no need to go for this combo at the beginning of the match, the other above are more important at the beginning).

I just added a whole drumset to the pops, integrating the existing two parts. Looks fantastic. Is made with metal and the surfaces are mirrored. Put everything on a transparent plexiglass and fixed it with the screws from the bumper plastics.

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Amazon offers the drum kit, I entered drum mini in the German Amazon. The supplier is Homegarden DE, which is a Chinese company. The delivery was quick, about 10 days.

The drummer is very shy and is not used to a huge audience.

I drilled 2 holes into the plexi glas at the inner side of each leg of the drum. If you watch carefully you can see them in the picture. I used a thin nylon filament (0,25 mm or lower) and then first bend it at the leg and after that put each nylon string through a different hole and bend the 2 strings from the underside of the plastic. So needs some time to drill the holes and to bend the strings, but that is not complicated.

However, you should use a plastic that is flexible (I used 0.5 mm), because otherwise you cannot move the whole set at the top of the bumpers.

Looks fantastic as well. Difficult to decide. The details are the same, so either way should be great.

I did not use superglue, because I used a flexible 0.5 mm plastic sheet as base. Flexible, because you otherwise have difficulties putting it in, so you need to bend it a bit (only in the process of putting it on the bumpers). Second reason is that the shaker may rattle it and the connection between glue and plastic may then break the glue. Third, you have to consider that the glue has to carry the metal drums when you raise the playfield. Possibly it depends on the characteristics of the glue. I think it should not dry out completly and provide some flexibility/movement.

I try to make a picture that shows what I did. I must remove the microphone anyway to copy the plastic for somebody; the microphone is fixed on a separate plastic on the AXL plastic, therefore easy to remove.

So here are the pictures. One with the prototype plastic, one with the top view and one from under the plastic (the last 2 pictures from the small plastic I made for the microphone, which I placed on top of the Axl plastic).

Step 1: cut the plastic that it fits on the pops, step 2: place the drums on the plastic and mark the 2 holes for each leg on the inside of the leg (to make the holes as invisable as possible), step 3: drill the holes, very small ones for the legs and bigger ones for the pop screws), step 4: cut the nylon filament in pieces of 12-15 cm, make a node in the middle of the nylon at the leg, move the two ends of,the nylon through each hole, turn the plastic to the underside and make a node with the two nylon ends there.

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Sorry to bother you, but I did not find your post in this regard. Could you please tell me what the exact description of that EMAX servo is? Thank you in advance! The second servo in my left spotlight stopped working tonight.

Perfect, thanks a lot!

The new code is no full install I think. Does it change the settings back to factory or the highscores?

However, I just red in teh German pinball forum that all settings are back to factory. Not quite sure what about the highscores.

I had the same problem, no gap between playfield and cabinet for mirror blades. However, I love mirror blades, especially for such a light effect game. I therefore created mirror blades that are installed on top of the playfield edges instead of between playfield and cabinet. The only disadvantage is that you need to remove the blades when lifting the playfield.

Some pictures:

The basis is cardboard in order to keep the weight as low as possible. High gloss mirror foil is put on the cardboard. A metal L-profil is used to have a clean top cover and create some strength. You can put the blades directly on the light profil left and right. The mirror effect is very close to the one of metal mirror blades.

I used the same method for my POTC with real mirror blades, but you need someone to cut the metal shorter than normal, which is more complicated then cutting the cardboard.

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But this assumes that the playfield level is exactly the same as the cabinet level, which is not necessarily the case. Even the playfield itself is not exactly the same level depending where you place pinguy.

See my post #17662. I had the same problem, the gap is too tight for mirror blades. I made blades with mirror paper to put on top of theplayfield instead of the sides of the playfield. Looks very nice.

Is there a trick how to center the new one exactly? Did you use any liquid to move the decal like with artblades?

My strategy is not so different from yours, but more focussed on patches.

Start with 2 shots left ramp as long as the diverter is down to advance patch scoring. Then advance pyro and ball locks without starting lights MB. When all MB are advanced playing all 4 MB (in the best case) parallel. After that ball locks and collection of song related patches: fender, vater, scull, revolver, drum sticks, then t-shirt/poster. Song start with 6 balls locked. First ball save period with focus on ball locks/ power cords to clear ball no. on playfield. Heading for band frency.

MY GC score is something in the 90 mill., so not really huge.

There is a slightly bigger one in gold, see my post #13235 ff. You can get it from Amazon.