It might help if you disconnect the brackets and make sure all the angles on the spinners and brackets are 90 degrees.

I have seen the main shaft bent and make them not rotate properly before. Looking at my flash the rod going through the center looks to be slightly longer on one side of the spinner than the other. Both long sides point to the outside of the machine.

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Show us a pic maybe it will help it does sound like something is not square

I'm having the same issue with my Nine Ball, never saw this issue before with another machine.
Perplexed. What in the world would get it to not reset with the shorter side down like on all my other pins?
-mof

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You need tension on it. The spinner is not weighted on the bottom. You'll need to adjust the lower spinner switch blade to "pull down" on the linkage to bring it to a vertical position. Then adjust the switch gap accordingly with the upper blade.

Without the scoring arm attached, bend the two spinner arms up or down slightly to change the resting position.

It's hard to describe, but picture an arc, and you will understand how the trick works.

Ah, the goal is an arc and not a straight line?

(I even put a level across the top of the spinner bracket, and it's rather level -- just to get that out of the way.)

I would presume that the short end of the spinner should then "hang a little lower than 'flat on the horizon' when compared to the spinner arms?

-mof

Digging this one back up...

Having spinner issues on my LOTR. How do you bend the spinner arms to have the bottom leaning less towards the front of the machine, and more perpendicular to the pf?

Leave the spinner in the bracket. Pinch the spinner and slightly pull towards you. Or push away from you. I can never remember. Haha just do it a little bit and you’ll get it.