Mobile, AL
The metal guide that feeds the flipper gate hammered back too. A rolling feed will hop off the flipper ring, robbing power from the shot. I think Cliffy remade those.
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Quoted from Geocab:I'm sorry, I'm not completely understanding what you're saying here.
The metal rail that the ball rolls on to get to the flipper. Its front edge gets mushroomed back just like coil stops do. After several years of this it no longer gives a seamless feed to the flipper. The ball will strike the edge of the flipper ring and hop forward, away from the flipper.
Take a ball and let it roll down the inlane to the flipper. Watch the transition from the metal guide to the flipper. If the ball maintains a straight trajectory you're good. If it hops away from the flipper, you need new guides.
This doesn't affect a cradle shot at all.
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