pic: Ball Return- Ball Stuck

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Originally Posted by Ahnxlazyman

wow I'm still having a hard time believing that happened and you have visual proof!

what caused the balls to "hiccup" at the end and get stuck there? did the lodged ball kick the rails out of place?

The stuck ball acted like a speed bump for returning balls. They went right over it, but were slowed down. The first ball over the stuck ball was slowed down just enough to not skip over the horizontal tower rail at the exit (I never did understand why the return track was positioned low enough to hit this horizontal rail, rather than just being high enough to go over it. That was just asking for trouble.) so it lodged there. The following balls did not have nearly enough speed to knock the first one loose, so they accumulated. There may have been some slight effect from the stuck ball pulling the rails down and changing their slope, but it was primarily the speed bump effect.