Recent purchaser of the Hobbit and first-time poster here! After experiencing numerous stuck balls between the right VUK chute and spinner bracket as shown below, I wanted to share my quick and easy fix with everyone. I removed the chute's rear attachment nut, added a small nylon cable clamp underneath, reattached the nut, and voila... issue solved! The clamp now diverts the ball away, and now I get no more stuck balls here. Love the game!

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Thanks! My playfield's set to 6.6deg since I found that to be my machine's ideal angle for allowing me to hit all four LOCK roll-overs on a plunge (SO satisfying!). Any steeper and the ball could never reach all four.

Everything seems to be installed just fine... no missing or misaligned parts that I can see. It could just be slight build tolerance differences that are unavoidable from machine-to-machine. Personally, I find adjusting and improving the functionality of a pin almost as rewarding as playing it... ALMOST.

Are you referring to the area shown below? If so, that was the very first issue I addressed on my machine. See below for my solution... I had to do both fixes on my machine, and the ball now JUST BARELY clears the post... Hopefully it works for you, too!

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That was one of the first issues I had on my Hobbit. Jersey Jack provided some feedback, and one of the fixes they recommended to me was to bend the slingshot coil bracket upwards so that the axe stops a little sooner. I only had to bend the bracket slightly. Not only did it work perfectly for me (no reoccurrence of axe hitting the PF), it was a simple solution that only took seconds to fix. See the photo for details. I hope this helps!

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