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Just re-stating for those that may have joined this thread late: If you're new to trying to play in a more controlled manner, the dead bounce should be your first priority. Well, except on some Gottlieb flippers, where a dead bounce simply = "dead" because there is no "bounce." 
Quoted from Circus_Animal:Or on any game with super bands
It's even worse than this... I've found super bands to be incredibly inconsistent. This can be the case on any set of flippers with one flipper having "give" to it, resulting in truly deadly dead bounces. But I agree that super bands are not nearly as reliable for dead bounces.
Quoted from Bugsy:From my experience, post transfers can be done on a lot of games, and other games it's not so easy. However, each game is different.
Not only each game, but each physical pin of the same game will often post transfer differently, especially on older titles where there's a better chance the flippers have been rebuilt. It depends on the flipper rubber, the angle of the flippers, how far the flippers travel when flipped, the strength of the flipper, the distance between the flipper and the sling, etc. Lots of factors.
If you've got a pin where the post transfer doesn't seem to go anywhere, and just stays put on that flipper, then you need to get the ball to roll up the flipper a bit, and then post transfer.
You can also alley pass / inlane pass / Shatz on many pins where post transfers aren't working, and you either can't tap pass or haven't developed tap passing as part of your flipper skill repertoire.
Quoted from Nokoro:So, a follow-up question: When the ball is ping-ponging back and forth between the slings as can happen from time to time, is there a way to nudge it out of there so it goes up the playfield and one of the slings doesn't throw it into an out lane? Or, do you just have to wait it out and hope for the best?
From a pinball skill guide put together by Dave Stewart in 1994:
One area of the playfield where nudging is absolutely vital is
around the slingshots. A ball that is moving horizontally is much
more likely to drain, especially on newer machines. Knowing how
to nudge the machine, both when the ball first hits the slingshots
and when it leaves them, will greatly decrease the number of outlane
drains. Generally, if a ball is going to hit the lower half of a
slingshot (i.e. closest to the flippers), nudge forward just as the ball
makes contact with the slingshot rubber. If a ball is going to hit the
upper half of a slingshot, nudge forward just after the ball ricochets,
to force it further up the playfield and away from the outlanes.
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