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M2: Apparently it's not possible to recover the original spin, so I guess you just end up with a random spin.
Stern-Gerlach Interferometer with Realistic Magnetic Field:
And see also this earlier paper, Is spin coherence like Humpty-Dumpty? I. Simplified treatment (free full text), which gives a more understandable qualitative argument:
I won't try to quote the actual argument, which is on page 3 of the PDF, but it seems that the main problem isn't entanglement between the particle and the apparatus.