King of steel, stuck on closing gate ruling.

[BMU]

Which is why when I Shatz on Argosy, I try to make it a less than perfect shot, go for a “rattler.”

[jdelz]

And when you shoot lit spinners on Eight Ball you do it as an on the fly backhand!

[gammagoat]

@Richthofen

So, it really depends on whether forcing the gate open leaves it open until the rollover is fired. So, if the ball had more momentum and pushed the gate open, and triggered the outlane switch, would the gate have closed before the ball fell back down the outlane?

The lane rollover was a one way switch on KoS. So you shouldn’t be able to trigger the gate close switch. I was confused in the moment because the close gate light was lit, making me think the gate was open, but it was forced open by the ball. I think it had space to drain before the switch though.

I don’t know if the panic I felt as the ball started pushing slowly up came through on stream, but when it ultimately wedged the the pin that the gate rests on in the open position, it was wedged hard and no longer would move.