This happened during a league match on Cyclone. Ball just disappeared right before my eyes. Took us 5 minutes to find it -- we all thought it was stuck in the scoop.

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I didn't take a pic of the ball stuck there but this is my fix. Under the left ramp on XMLE. Right next to the scoop.

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I always thought 2 1/2" rubbers on slingshots were too loose, I wish someone would make 2 1/4" rubbers.

I don't take credit for this one, it came courtesy of one of my friends.

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i just had a ball disappear out of my Tommy during multiball. FIgured the game lost track of it. Said ball missing. Several days later the game says ball missing. Looked everywhere for it.

Finally found the ball? Where was it? Laying in the bottom of the cabinet by the coin box.

How did it get there? During multiball a ball must have flew up into the blinders hole and drop down into the cabinet.

I had a ball disappear during play when it went around the orbit on my WOZECLE. It rolled behind the Castle upper playfield and didn't come back down. The ball was not shot hard. I waited and waited. No ball. Took the glass off and started searching. Lifted the PF and the ball was not in the bottom of the cabinet. I added another ball to continue playing. Several days later, a few friends helped me look for it. We searched every inch of that pin using flashlights and my magnet on a stick. Talk about being stumped! We could not locate that ball anywhere. They mostly chided me for being out of my mind and imagining things!

Many months went by and one day Rob (Borygard) came to do some work on my pin and he had to take the Castle PF off to replace an LED under it. He discovered the ball 'nesting' in a pile of wires located WAY up above the orbit. There was really no space for a ball to 'jump' up there anyway. And how it HID itself was just unbelievable. I should have taken a picture. That ball was not shot with any force to have the inertia to leap that far off the field. It should have gently rolled back down. i would never believe this had I not seen it with my own eyes!

I had to tilt the machine to get dredd to clear this.WP_20140831_13_32_12_Pro.jpg

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You snooze, you loose.....

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ALL contrived! ALL i say!

TOM is at my parent's house. I go for a visit this weekend and Mom says, the pinball machine is broken, it has a stuck ball.

So, I go take a look and a ball was indeed stuck between the right inlane and the right slingshot. The ball was just sitting there. It took me a moment to figure it out.

One ball was stuck inside the right slingshot, and it was wedging the other ball against the right inlane ball guide. I had an extra set of rubber rings in the cabinet, so I changed the ones out, for the slings. Apparently they were worn out, and a bit too stretchy.

Wish I had taken a photo, now.

Glad I'm not alone. Happened on my JD the other week, was baffled how it got stuck in the lane, then I saw under the plastic...

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Dudah, that is exactly what it looked like.

Ha Ha, same thing happened to a Congo I played at a local place this weekend.

This ball rocketed off the upper right ramp entrance and nestled in perfectly in the wire hole of the recognizer top plastic. image.jpg

Couldn't shake this one loose.

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