Diamond ProAm Wiggles

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trailprice

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My 9' Diamond ProAm wiggles a bit when the player leans on it to reach a shot. You can even shake it enough to make a hanging ball drop. Is this normal? Could the installer have done anything wrong that is causing it to have this non-sturdy feeling?
 
trailprice said:
My 9' Diamond ProAm wiggles a bit when the player leans on it to reach a shot. You can even shake it enough to make a hanging ball drop. Is this normal? Could the installer have done anything wrong that is causing it to have this non-sturdy feeling?
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not normal. legs may not be attached tightly.
 
garczar said:
not normal. legs may not be attached tightly.
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My only thought too.
Because the rest of it woukd never even move.

The legs are actually very weak. Check the bolts on the legs and look to see if any legs are separating
 
I bet you "standing on 3 legs". One of the legs is barely touching the floor and making the thing unstable.
 
Find these guys hiding in your table/room. Once your table has the Wiggles, it's pretty hard to get rid of them.
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Check the legs. The bottom nuts should all be TIGHT to the bottom of the leveling blocks. They're explained here:
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Nick B could be correct here as well.
 
My Professional was set up by an authorized installer. He left with a bag of EXTRA bolts. After investigating I found 4 missing in the frame. Not sure if the center bolt on the top of the pedestal is tight. Welcome to the wonderful world of You Just Got Schlocked.
Could the installer have done anything wrong. I'm currently on the floor laughing my nuts and bolts off. Sorry to hear this.
 
Ok, the feeling of the table wiggling is because all the weight of the table is basically on 2 legs, diagonally from each other, and the remaining 2 legs, diagonally from each other are barely supporting any weight. If the installer leveled the table side to side first, he may have gone to far on lifting one leg, then at the opposite end, raised the diagonal leg to bring it back to level. If you take a 3/4" open wrench and put it on the top nut at one end of the table, checking both legs, you'll find one nut turns easy, while the other leg nut is hard to turn. Check the opposite end for the same thing. What has to happen is loosen all the rails bolts, which will allow the frame to relax, and move the weight to the legs that the nut is easy to turn. Then you need to place a machinist level in line with the first diamonds on one end of the table, right in the center of the slate. Lower the tight nut down about half of what is showing out of level, then go to the other end, repeat that process, until the level reads level side to side at both ends, then tighten the rail bolts up again to 25ftlbs, then check level at both ends again, always adjusting by only half of what is showing out of level. Repeat at both ends until side to side is level.
 
tim913 said:
I had a jerk of a friend once who rolled a ball real slow into the corner pocket. It was teetering on the edge so he slammed his hip into the table to make it go.
The ball didn’t move but he had to sit down for awhile.. 9 foot GC IV
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Surprised he did not break his hip. GC4’s do not surf.
 
Wiggling in transverse direction is the legs not being attached tightly.
Wiggling in the tilt-tip direction is that the table legs are not adequately supported on/by the floor.
 
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