Middleton, WI
I hate to put the old leg bolts back on with new chrome legs. Who sells nice chrome leg bolts? It's a nice touch and is a nice compliment to new legs. Thanks
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Quoted from Bee-barf:I hate to put the old leg bolts back on with new chrome legs. Who sells nice chrome leg bolts? It's a nice touch and is a nice compliment to new legs. Thanks
Leg bolts polish up very nicely, use the old ones
if you have money to waste send your old bolts to these guys http://www.pinballplating.com/
Leg bolts are 66 cents each at PBR (add some leg tee nuts, too)... polish the old ones up and live with them until you have a big enough order for PBR.
Follow this method here. Works just the same for leg bolts with great results.
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/restore-tip-making-wms-coin-door-rivetsscrews-shiny-new
If they are really rusty, soak them over night in Evaporust. Then proceeded with method above.
Quoted from jrpinball:I tumble them, then a little wire wheel to clean up the threads.
I run all the bolts through a cutting die to clean up the threads and run a tap through the mounting brackets. Then all the bolts install with just finger pressure. You just need a wrench to snug them up at the end. I've also had good luck with a swipe or two across the threads with an old candle as dry lube.
Sometimes I see folks at shows using impact drivers to install leg bolts and wonder how many times they've cut new threads into the mounting brackets.
/Mark
Quoted from MarkG:I run all the bolts through a cutting die to clean up the threads and run a tap through the mounting brackets. Then all the bolts install with just finger pressure. You just need a wrench to snug them up at the end. I've also had good luck with a swipe or two across the threads with an old candle as dry lube.
Sometimes I see folks at shows using impact drivers to install leg bolts and wonder how many times they've cut new threads into the mounting brackets.
/Mark
As long as you start them by hand you should be ok with a driver.
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