This...is the Trough Lock!

Everyone has had that moment of realization of forgetting to secure the pinballs before lifting your playfield. Everyone also has their own method to prevent it from happening. Well, Cary shows you a new product that can also do the trick!
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[@doctoroctos]

I forget more often to put the balls back in, put the glass on, then go, oh crap. Don't think I ever forgot to take them out.
I think it was BoF, uses a plunger to auto block the trough. That is even slicker than this, as there is no door to set and clear.

[@gopooalreadyplease5842]

I dont have to take the balls out of Labyrinth?!

[@doctoroctos]

@@gopooalreadyplease5842
Sorry. It was AB that has two trough locks, not BoF th-cam.com/video/L7DE8uY6gyc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=FXl-W87IE0SQFGRX

[@chadalexander1924]

Williams figured this out back in the late 90s. Why is this still even a thing with Stern?

[@andrewmartin6265]

$20 plus five dollars shipping for what a shop rag can do. And I can use the same rag for ALL of my machines...no installation required. No thank you.

[@shivorath]

So the answer to forgetting to remove the balls is to forget to lock the trough lock. Am I missing something? I don't see how this solves anything.

[@OVERKILL_PINBALL]

Lol.. yup.. if the mechanism automatically slid down with gravity it might be fool proof but I don't think it does (at least 100%)

[@joshphelps4363]

Dumbest product I've ever seen 😆 🤣 magnetizing and having to remember to set the lock and not the balls you literally here jiggling around.

[@moobutt]

If I remember, I do the rag thing. IF

[@Rah1Xephon]

Pinball 2000 has a gate that closes itself using gravity when you lift the playfield

[@tomphelps8611]

Love that on my Revenge… such an elegant solution to a common problem

[@jaspajones7045]

Sad stern never thought of this. Probably would be a $100.00 part according to them.

[@stjamespl]

I just use an old sock (clean lol), but have also had balls fall out from between the flippers. Also, sometimes I'll have to manually eject a ball to the shooter lane after lowering the playfield. The balls will stack in the trough where the game cant detect it and will cycle through ball search, or give a message that a ball is missing.

[@corytinz]

seems like a cool product, surprised there wasn't something like this already.

[@dayz112]

clever idea.
i was always forgetting to remove the balls the first months i had my first pin, but since then i never forgot to put a piece of foam to block the balls again. I still forget sometimes to remove the foam after putting the glass back! :D

[@george-corrigan]

There are Pro and Premium/LE versions. I wonder what the physical difference is? Didn't realize the trough would be different.

[@tntamusements]

But...my usual thing is when I lift a playfield, the balls go everywhere...everyone eEXPECTS that to happen when I lift a playfield! 🙂

[@CLU1968]

I own Revenge from mars (1999) pinball so already sorted. But wonder why this idea has not become standard by now.

[@nightsurfride]

Well that’s nifty.

[@jeremylester6537]

hmmm how long till this is on thingiverse?

[@matthewmorton7386]

For that price I’ll just keep using a micro fiber😂

[@mrfuzzcat]

Just a small square (block)piece of foam. new Sterns come packed with at least a dozen of them. Funny, my premium acdc has powder coated armor but cheap plastic apron. Stinks.

[@TheKurtsPlaceChannel]

Very nice video. Thanks for posting and have a nice day too.

[@TiltingT]

Cool looking product but this new auto tracking camera set up is even better!

[@chriskievit1963]

Cool. That trough looks a lot like a money clip. I wonder if that would work the same.

[@King_Henry]

I use one of my socks, lol..or if I'm waxing I'll use a microfiber cloth that's sitting next to me..I am careful about the rollover switch though, so I don't just blinding shove it in the hole without a bit of caution, lol.

[@Pitbull0669]

Man I've done that many of times with the balls lol

[@OVERKILL_PINBALL]

We need a gravity-fed idiot proof version

[@peparcell]

Cary can you recommend replqcement speakers for my Funhouse? I asked on Pinside and I get random answers.

[@CaryHardy]

@peparcell speakers are going to be subjective as hell. In the end, you can update the speakers all you want, but if you don't have an amp to push those speakers, then it doesn't really matter.

[@peparcell]

@@CaryHardy Suggestion on stock replacement from a supplier? Thanks for your help

[@michaelfokas8884]

I hate when my balls bounce all over the damn place when I lift the playfield up.

[@MANNYSARCADE]

That's pretty sweet

[@nebulosity1]

Started with a ball sack to hold the balls, [then] used a ball sock to plug the hole, now we have a ball [lock]. Sack, sock, and [lock], let's just stop here.
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[@hreimer]

Completely confused why stern doesn't add the 1.29 solution that JJP uses to this problem???

[@koenlauwaert5970]

Ooooooooeeeeee, I love doing it… 😁

[@andrewlee88]

Just take a hand cloth and shove it in the trough. Yanno? The same one u just used to wipe down the pf? Works everytime

[@Acedanger1974]

Or you can use a ten cent rag

[@afattori316]

$25 shipped is a bit much.

[@rwiski]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking

[@banzaipinball]

I just use a cloth

[@pipes3]

This doesn’t solve the problem of remembering however.

[@jackpoulin6443]

There is an old and extremely cheap, 100% working part that sell for less than 5$ that prevent balls from falling when you raise the playfield ... JJP have it installed on all their pins. I have installed it on every older "non JJP" game I have. Why Sterns still having problems with this very simple and cheap to solve problem is beyond me.