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Message: <blockquote data-quote="invitro" data-source="post: 240805" data-attributes="member: 446">This is just not true; kinggo is correct.From above you said: "The flipper is in this instance the object that exerts the sideways force of the moving cabinet onto the ball, not the playfield itself."  No, of course not: the ball would be several inches above the flipper at the time the left/right nudge was made.  Then the ball falls to hit the flipper, then the table moves back in the reverse direction of the nudge.  This is what happens in a "slap save" and gentler versions (I didn't use a slap save much at all when I played at a high level, but I did the gentler version pretty much constantly, as there is usually an optimum place you want a down-falling pinball to hit on the flipper).</blockquote>

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