Hey Guys, great thread.. joined the club a few weeks ago, found a HUO locally that looked like it was hardly ever played and thoroughly enjoying it now. One thing that I noticed was even after a few days of playing, the silver ball target started to wear even more showing white so I was frantically looking for solutions to protect it but with no luck and a reproduction was not easy to find, I saw on the forum that someone cut in a pinball in 1/2 which looked cool but wasn't as practical as would've liked.. an idea popped across my mind to use a mirrored silver Christmas ball ornament that I saw on my tree as I bought a pack with a few sizes in it. I cut one in 1/2 with a thin dremel wheel and it turned out to be almost exactly the same material as the target, maybe a stronger finish being new, I attached it with double sided 3m tape and it works perfectly, hope this helps with a solution for others.

Video here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/e4qe6oemee5lanq/video%20dec%2006%2C%2010%2046%2059%20pm.mov?dl=0

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Also, feel free to download my sound pack that I made for Pinsound for those of you who have it installed. I spent many hours editing & fitting songs from the original movie soundtrack in with the original tommy mix that play in random. Growing up I was a huge fan of both the who and the movie and loved them both equally the same. Hope you enjoy it.

https://www.pinsound-community.org/forum/index.php?/files/file/343-tommy-ompst-rt/

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Thanks.. and you're welcome. They were the small one's in this pack I bought about a year ago, the .78 size. With the 3m tape, it work it also works to soften air balls, as before they would launch sometimes too on direct hits. I put a piece on the target and a piece behind the ball.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07VQSNW92/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s01

Glad that you like it. Yes, that was one of the biggest challenges I found is that the music files from the cd soundtrack were too low in comparison to sfx,etc. I played a lot and tried different ways but found that amplifying each track to the maximum amount without clipping was the best compromise to be the loudest it could be without any distortion and still be somewhat normalized throughout.

I really like that pinsound elevator music, lol, there’s one track where it sounds a bit techno and the bass line climbs and the song builds up throughout, starts over again, excellent.

RIP Lyman! Definitely feels now like the big break & where it all started, it shows! Always felt Tommy was ahead of it’s time, like a modern day Stern, love this game.