2 Williams...1 Gottlieb....still tight since setup....3+ years.........Joey

I agree with you on this. I just check my games evety so often whenever I tuink about if. If there are friends over and the machines get heavg play then I will ususally check them after they leave or the next day.

I don't crank on them super hard because I'm afraid I may damage the cabinet but I get them pretty snug. They are definitly tight and they do definitly back off on their own

With leg protectors in place just crank them down good and you shouldn't have to do it again until you need to move the pin. If you're continually tightening your leg bolts it's because you didn't tighten them enough to begin with.

And if you're worried about stripping the mounting plate just order some of these. They are superior to,the stock places and very easy to install.

http://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/01-11400-1

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snug your led bolts then take two 3/8" nuts (9/16" wrench) and add them to the inside of each leg bolt if you lock these two nuts together against the inner plate you should be good for a long time.

I make them nice and snug on initial setup and only tighten in the future if the game feels loose...rarely happens.

Be careful with these because those threaded "bolts" are only pressed in and you could spin them if a bolt gets cross threaded. That's what happened to one on my HS that I put them on, had to cut it off and get a new plate. I took all of them off and had a buddy weld the pressed in threads. No chance of them spinning now.

Honestly, I've seen enough stripped leg bolt plates and leg bolts due to over tightening, I just snug them up once, and call it a day. Never had any issue with loose leg bolts on any of my games since I've first set them up, and it's been years.

On the hour, every hour.

Use a lock-tight blue

Ah HA!!!!! So you admit to neglecting the 30 minute tightening intervals. Well, I can see this hobby means nothing to you.

Any suggestions for creaky leg bolts while nudging?

I thought you were suppose to keep them just a tad bit loose so that you can nudge it without a ton of force? My tables are on laminate with sliders underneath so i can nudge without too much effort, but i dont think i would want them so tight so they dont give at all. Then nudging becomes a full body excercise, no?

uh oh, look out. Here come the 'table' police.

I was severely scolded several months ago for calling a pinball machine a 'table.'

You are dead right. These plates are a huge improvement over the earlier types but your experience is a common one. That's why we pressed, and then welded the rivnuts to our plates before electroplating.

The other part is called a "cabinet protector" - I also often make the mistake of calling it a "leg protector" and that isn't its purpose - it's to protect the cabinet and decals.

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And rightly so - LOL

Righty loosey, lefty tighty. But for some reason I keep tightening them and they seem to get looser each time and I have no idea why? Any idea's ??

John