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Can my component roll off the Rollerblocks and be damaged?

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Can my component roll off the Rollerblocks and be damaged?

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This is extremely unlikely, and would require a concerted effort or a complete lack of common sense (which we know you must have a lot of, since you’re here at our website!!) to make it happen. Once set up, it’s actually easier to make your component topple over with cones than with Rollerblocks. Because of the design of the Rollerblock’s cup receptacle, when a component is placed on the balls it actually takes quite a bit of force to make the ball roll up and over the polished cup’s incline. Because the balls must roll up this constantly increasing incline, it makes it difficult for the component to roll off. We demonstrate this at audio shows quite frequently: if you push hard on, say, a CD player, it will roll a bit, and then an interesting thing happens: the balls begin to push the Rollerblocks, and the entire component, with Rollerblocks, just slides across the support surface. This demonstrates that the Rollerblocks, when set up correctly, are actually safer than cones, which wil

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