POTD Lane Diverter (by Pinwest) Added

OK. On my POTD the ball almost always goes down lane 2.  I figured out you can nudge fairly hard to sometimes get to lane 1, but I have another solution I'm ready to try.

Pinwest (David Eisner, CA) made a plastic diverter and this was sold for a while by BAA.  See: LOTR parts tab.  This has nothing to do with the ball falling off the end of the POTD.   This mod is designed to help "even out" the selection of lanes 1 and 2.

The parts used:

Defector and longer screw are for the top of the POTD
Clear post goes at the bottom of the POTD to replace a metal post  previously installed, which bumps the ball into the wireform some of the time.  This means the "Shire Hole" VUK switch and wood get hammered less.  See: LOTR Blog from 13th April 2010

POTD Lane Deflector Installed 

You can see the ball will hit at an angle, and doesn't actually touch the 3 posts.  Once it is adjusted tot he right angle, the selection of lanes 1 and 2 are more even.

Here is a link to the installation instructions which contains some extra pictures.  This could be useful if you decide to try and make one yourself:
POTD Lane Defector Installation Instructions