Leveling Pinballs

thefader

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Two of my new machines are incredibly uneven, I've tried to level the legs, but they look like this.


They are stuck, and kind of rusty, so I WD40'd but still cant move them. Am I stuck with getting all new legs?
 

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Get em off the ground, and get a wrench on the base, you'll get em to move.

Best to just get yourself some new levelers put on while you're at it too.
 
Also, try PB Blaster or Kroil instead of WD40. Always seems to work much better for me.
 
After you get the weight off levelers may have to use a vise grip to remove them since they are rusty, once you get them removed install some new levelers and then readjust for levelness.
 
my 107 year old basement floor is hardly flat, so I have so many issues with unevenness. Every pin that comes through the door gets new levelers before it even gets powered up.

I get a friend or the wife to use the level on the playfield while I crawl under it and use my back to push the machine up for adjusting.

My most recent pin, Gorgar, had rusty levelers. I used WD40 and ended up using a hammer to get the old levelers straight because they were tweaked from straight. It might of helped to get them loose. I would seek out suggestions from a local car repair place on a good penetrating product, like others have mentioned, for really stuck on levelers.
 
Also, Get yourself a digital level, craftsman makes a $25-$30 dollar one and you can put that on the PF and get it dead balls even. Mine has an audio save so when you get it right on it will beep
 
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