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Post a photo of the strange place your ball got stuck.

By Minneapolispin

9 years ago


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#251 7 years ago
Quoted from allicks:

Thought optos in NGG trough was out for past two months...said missing ball...finally got around to troubleshooting it today...turns out trough was functioning fine and ball actually missing. Ball was camouflaged and wedged in a spotlight...would have never saw it except was looking at how badly I need to give it a good cleaning lol.

Epic!

#252 7 years ago

Metallica. After multiple ball searches, I had to take the glass off.

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#253 7 years ago

Field Goal on RBION

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#254 7 years ago

EVERY
F***ING
TIME.

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#255 7 years ago

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#256 7 years ago

Taxi, was playing with the glass off and no apron cards. The ball jammed itself under the apron in a position where I couldn't lift the playfield.

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#257 7 years ago

Baywatch

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#258 7 years ago

TFTC. Had to tilt the machine a bit to get this one out!

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#259 7 years ago

Whirlpool was out of alignment.

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#260 7 years ago

This is actually the second time I've had a missing ball report on TOM and found it resting on top of the trunk board like this.

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#261 7 years ago

Slow roll of a ball stopped on my Cliffy lane protector and switch in my Metallica.

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#262 7 years ago

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On my Stargate a couple of days ago, had to take the glass off, it was well wedged!

#263 7 years ago

Skateball. Stuck under glass.

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#264 7 years ago
Quoted from rottenrobert1313:

Slow roll of a ball stopped on my Cliffy lane protector and switch in my Metallica.

Don't have a cliffy, but mine stopped in the same spot yesterday.

#265 7 years ago

Ball stopped on the edge of a small mylar patch thats there. Its nearly invisible so looks like the ball just stopped for no reason.

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#266 7 years ago

Finally

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#267 7 years ago

Whoa Nellie at SFGE two different times. My son did it.

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#268 7 years ago
Quoted from thepinballworks:

Whoa Nellie at SFGE two different times. My son did it.

I did that too when I played it at Marvin's in Michigan.

Also on the left side.

#269 7 years ago

Local Hobbit

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#270 7 years ago

Got a ball stuck behind the rubber on the right sling during a game on Police Force. Happened so fast during the multiball I don't even know how it happened.

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#271 7 years ago

Had this happen on GOT Pro this week.

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#272 7 years ago

Ball behind the rubber on a slingshot usually means it's time for new rubber on the slingshot ...

#273 7 years ago

Flash Gordon. Got a little bouncy.

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#275 7 years ago

well, not really being stucked as game goes OK without bugging, but yesterday got my 3 balls of the MB, quite the same time, stored in the facility storage right hole of my Ghostbusters, 1 in the hole acting, 2 waiting just behind...

of course no way or time to take a picture
sure we can do better than 3 balls

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#276 7 years ago

This happened this morning. Not a strange place to get a ball stuck. But it is stuck. Looks like it decided to chill out from game playing and take a rest.
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#277 7 years ago

What did you do to my old BH???

#278 7 years ago

That was my biggest accomplishment as of yet. Great game but boy is it tough.

Quoted from Bos98:What did you do to my old BH???

#279 7 years ago

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#280 7 years ago

That's a good one...

#281 7 years ago

This made taking the glass off very difficult

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#282 7 years ago

Holy smoke! That ball had to be seriously flying.

#283 7 years ago

It's happened twice. Had to take credit card slide inbetween glass and apron push ball forward pull glass back repeat about 6 times to get glass off

#284 7 years ago

If not glass would have shattered

#285 7 years ago

That's a common place for balls to stick on our WoZ. It can happen on either side, too. I finally added a clear post to the left side to stop that. There's no good place to hook on a post to the right side without drilling, so I haven't closed that one up yet.

#286 7 years ago

Judge dredd had to take the glass off.

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#287 7 years ago

Nothing worth posting until now. Ball got stuck behind the flipper. Made the x13 multiball go a whole lot smoother. Glass had to come off to get it.

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#288 7 years ago

Side note : when you see a ball inside the slingshot like that, it means your sling rings are needing replacement ... they've stretched enough the ball can pop behind.

#289 7 years ago

Plunged my ball in Taxi tonight and it vanished. Saw it behind the Carry All Passengers target. The ball gate had failed and let it through, but with just enough juice to drop down there from behind, and there's nothing to actually prevent a ball from going there.

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#290 7 years ago

Lol not really stuck, but you get the drift.

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#291 7 years ago

I get them pretty regularly on my LOTR

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#292 7 years ago
Quoted from merccat:

Ball stopped on the edge of a small mylar patch thats there. Its nearly invisible so looks like the ball just stopped for no reason.

What game is this?

#293 7 years ago
Quoted from DK:

What game is this?

Wizard of Oz.. Left Upper playfield, the Castle.

#294 7 years ago
Quoted from HighVoltage:

I get them pretty regularly on my LOTR

You have the clear plastic with the post in it, behind Gandalf mounted 180 degrees backwards. The post is supposed to be toward him, so the ball does not stick there.

#295 7 years ago

As you know, The Juggler has a little trouble juggling three of these.
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Had to take the glass off. None of the balls triggered a switch and a ball search did not kick them out.

#296 7 years ago
Quoted from Neal_W:

You have the clear plastic with the post in it, behind Gandalf mounted 180 degrees backwards. The post is supposed to be toward him, so the ball does not stick there.

Nice, looks like Stern was aware of that one! I wonder if this came from the factory miss-mounted or previous owner did it, anyway, thanks for the tip.

#297 7 years ago

Perfect opportunity to swig on my beer!

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#298 7 years ago

Not sure whether this is common or not, but the ball definitely wasn't going anywhere without help.

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#299 7 years ago

My T2 balls get serious airtime, but this was the first time it actually got stuck somewhere.

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#300 7 years ago

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