Castors, leg levelers and the bottoms of cabs

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What are people's thoughts on what's best to use on the bottoms of cabs? I just got a Boot Hill which has no leg levelers on the bottom and it's getting itself chewed up every time I move it, and I'm debating whether to just give it levelers or perhaps set it up with some kind of castors.

Castors would be nice but I wonder if the game will tend to move when I try to play it, but I also wonder if levelers will make it a pain to move and overly torque the mounts, it's a damn heavy game.

Suggestions?
 
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Get the big Furniture SLiders and nail them to the bottom. Easy to move whenever you want...
 
I always put brand new leg levelers in my games when they come home. When they go in the basement (carpeted), I put magic sliders permanently on all the feet so I can move them around at will. Discs of Tron is my heaviest game and it slides around effortlessly.

I have to be careful if any bottoms of the games are deteriorating or water damaged. My Asteroids has a plywood base that was water damaged and the original t-nuts for the legs wouldn't stay in, so I cut some plywood strips the width of the cab and attached it with crown staples. I drilled holes in the same places as the original holes and pushed the t-nuts into the new wood and they stay in fine now.

Only problem I have is my Jungle King and Donkey Kong as they both have wood bases with no original feet. I ordered some corner mount leg leveler brackets for them so I can use the standard size feet.
 
Boot Hill rests on a shirt of particle board, which is a REALLY BAD idea if you ask me, so this weekend I'm probably going to create an inner box out of 2X4 wood and screw/glue the original to it. In theory it should be plenty strong after that and my wood work should be invisible and make it tough as nails.
 
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Boot Hill rests on a shirt of particle board, which is a REALLY BAD idea if you ask me, so this weekend I'm probably going to create an inner box out of 2X4 wood and screw/glue the original to it. In theory it should be plenty strong after that and my wood work should be invisible and make it tough as nails.

I've got a Gun Fight I need to do that to as well. Got an idea from a fellow KLOVer here of cutting some 4x4 corner pieces and mounting leg leveler brackets to it so that it's a bit underneath the original wood skirt.....currently sitting on furniture moving sliders although I'm not going to nail them to the bottom:)... what are you gonna do..hardwood floors.
 
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I put casters on all my games. 2 swivels in the front, and 2 solid in the back. It makes it great for moving cabs around. I don't have an issue with cabs running away while I play them, nut I don't really lean into my games when I play them either. The only issue is that they raise your cab up about an inch, and there is no leveling anymore, so if the ground isn't flat, the game tips sometimes. But, if you have carpet, or put a piece of card stock or something under the wheel, that fixes that problem. Also, with casters, since the cab is up off the ground, you don't have to worry as much about the ground getting a little wet near the cab.
 
Only downside I see to casters is that on the games that had them originally on the back - Space Duel, Tempest, etc.. it can be a chore tilting one out of the back of a truck without it getting away from you. I haven't had one roll on its back yet, but I got close once.
 
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I put casters on all my games. 2 swivels in the front, and 2 solid in the back. It makes it great for moving cabs around. I don't have an issue with cabs running away while I play them, nut I don't really lean into my games when I play them either. The only issue is that they raise your cab up about an inch, and there is no leveling anymore, so if the ground isn't flat, the game tips sometimes. But, if you have carpet, or put a piece of card stock or something under the wheel, that fixes that problem. Also, with casters, since the cab is up off the ground, you don't have to worry as much about the ground getting a little wet near the cab.

I had a Robotron someone had put wheels on. You would chase it around The room to play it.
 
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They sell casters with stoppers on them also for a couple bucks more. Just push a tab to keep them in place.

I have no problem moving games around. I threw the wheels away and put Levelers back on it. Even with the locking casters I believe games like Robotron and Crazy Climber would rock around a little bit.
 
I remove all levelers from the bottoms of my games before entering the house,if not the wife yells about them scratching the floor. I never liked them anyway. I see it like this,why use levelers in the first place? To lift the game an inch or so off the ground? Then you have the task of making sure they are all even and the game does'nt rock. I figure if the cabinet was made true on the bottom then it should sit flat and you would'nt need casters but thats IMO. Man! Those things sound like nails on a chalkboard when you drag them around on games too lol
 
In my dungeon of a garage, which unfortunately tends to flood, I keep all the games up on furniture dollies. In most cases a small piece of wood or shim tucked behind a wheel stops them from going anywhere. I'm liking the furniture slider idea if/when I ever get my own place.
 
All my machines have leg levers. My arcade games get them to prevent damge to the undersides and T-molding. They also pretect if my besement gets an inch or two of water on the floor.

Removing or not using, is just a bad idea all around to me.
 
I remove all levelers from the bottoms of my games before entering the house,if not the wife yells about them scratching the floor. I never liked them anyway. I see it like this,why use levelers in the first place? To lift the game an inch or so off the ground? Then you have the task of making sure they are all even and the game does'nt rock. I figure if the cabinet was made true on the bottom then it should sit flat and you would'nt need casters but thats IMO. Man! Those things sound like nails on a chalkboard when you drag them around on games too lol

That's just plain crazee talk. Get the adhesive backed teflon glides and stick one to the bottom of each foot. No wonder the bottoms of so many cabs are chewed to hell.

Removing cabinet feet from all cabinets = WTF????
 
I remove all levelers from the bottoms of my games before entering the house,if not the wife yells about them scratching the floor. I never liked them anyway. I see it like this,why use levelers in the first place? To lift the game an inch or so off the ground? Then you have the task of making sure they are all even and the game does'nt rock. I figure if the cabinet was made true on the bottom then it should sit flat and you would'nt need casters but thats IMO. Man! Those things sound like nails on a chalkboard when you drag them around on games too lol

You use levelers to get the cabinet off of the ground. Even moving it across carpet will snag wood splinters and fibers. Williams cabinets especially tend to have a good bit of cabinet damage along the bottom edges, due to the way they did the levelers.
 
I personally like the cabs that have the casters mounted in the back so they can be tilted and rolled around rather easily, especially on games like Pole Position and MK. Though I wish they would have included them on Centipede cabs!
 
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