Never trust Saw Horses on Concrete

Phetishboy

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My God. I used 2 of them to prop an arcade machine up at an angle from the back and it worked perfectly for over 2 weeks, while I worked on the bottom. Then I stood the machine up, moved the horses to the front and and tried to lean the machine forward to work on the back/bottom area. I went to check the base to make sure it wasn't being stressed, when I heard a sickening scraping sound, just like when grampa used to shovel snow off the side walk in the morning. Next thing I know, I see the horses pushed forward about 4 feet and my machine is now laying on it's face, rocking back and forth on the ground like a recently violated altar boy. The pivot point of the continuous rock was the once perfect CP bump-out area. Let's just say it's not perfect anymore. *sigh*
 
Next time turn the machine upside down to work on the bottom.

Yeah I do with Ninty cabinets all the time. You can see one in the background of this pic:

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Let's just say that this was not a Ninty cab and was a hell of a lot heavier.
 
Shawn,

Was it the Space Wars that suffered the crash? That's one big bastard to be putting up on sawhorses!
OBTW, the package is on it's way, hope you enjoy getting it in the mail ;)
 
At the risk of stating the now obvious, it wasn't the concrete that was the problem. Sawhorses were never designed to take a sideways load on any surface. Two saw horses on concrete would have been fine because all the force would be normal to the sawhorse/concrete.
 
At the risk of stating the now obvious, it wasn't the concrete that was the problem. Sawhorses were never designed to take a sideways load on any surface. Two saw horses on concrete would have been fine because all the force would be normal to the sawhorse/concrete.

Perhaps I should have included the adjective "Burnished"? The concrete in my garage is smooth and slippery. It was the concrete, trust me. My driveway is also concrete but rougher. They never slide out there, no matter what direction I apply weight, force or pressure. Tip over? Sure. Slide, never. I was using 2 of them lengthwise BTB.
 
Shawn,

Was it the Space Wars that suffered the crash? That's one big bastard to be putting up on sawhorses!
OBTW, the package is on it's way, hope you enjoy getting it in the mail ;)

I was just thinking that, that would've been horrible to what looked to be a game in great shape upon arrival(I can't say that, through the same company).
 
That is why I use a memory foam twin bed topper laid down on the concrete. I got it for next to nothing at a garage sale. It acts like a cushion on the floor, so the sides don't get scratched and if I need to prop the bottom up, nothing slides.

ken
 
Fuck that. I have the machine back up, everything works and the cab repairs are just about finished. Minor set-back really, but man it coulda been ugly.

Glad the damage wasn't worse. That's a bummer you even had to mess with this. I have a Centipede cabinet that I am going to pitch because of a mouse urine smell, but it at one point looks like it did a face-plant. the MDF around the marquee is gone and is also damaged around the CP. Would have been a ton of work to fix. I started to but I decided too many things to fix and I found another cab.
 
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