unequaltemperament
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And the radiator in my car is zip-tied to the frame, but I'm not pretending that its the best fix in the world.
Looking for a steel GCI foot
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Alright Einstein, tell me what the zip-tie is in my suggestion, I've done that 100's of times with GC's.And the radiator in my car is zip-tied to the frame, but I'm not pretending that its the best fix in the world.
Like I said, leveling a GC don't take place by adjusting the foot up and down on the stud, it takes place by screwing the stud up or down in the flange mounted in the bottom of the pedestals!And the radiator in my car is zip-tied to the frame, but I'm not pretending that its the best fix in the world.
Hey Einstein, do you see that nut on the stud you keep dropping into the foot? That's the JAM nut used to keep the stud from un-screwing from the foot when adjusting the level. No different than a jam nut on a rod if the same make, held in the foot on the inside by a nut, or hex head bolt, sticking out above the foot by 2"-3" with a jam nut locking it in place. The exposed threads of the stud screw up and down inside the flange mounted in the pedestal. What did you call my idea, a zip-tie fix??? I've followed behind lot's of customers like you, having to fix what they did in damage, thinking they knew what they were doing. Please tell me again, how is it that the stud no longer threads up to the foot on that table???I'm in the process of restoring a late GCI and made a poor choice in trying to chemically strip the feet. Long story short, the center hole is now significantly too large for the height adjustment bolt. For the sake of simplicity, I'd love to just get my hands on another one and pretend this never happened. These are the heavier, nickel-plated variety and should be embossed with D-212079 and 13400 on the bottom. And if anyone has ideas for repairing this one without a significant price tag, I'm all ears.
Teardown/progress album (it's been slow going):
I work on pool tables for a living, not as a hobby, unless you think 44 years working on pool tables is still a hobby! Bottom line is, I'm nit the one that screwed up the foot on your table, you did! I gave you a fix to your problem, and you call it a zip-tie solution, have a good day, I'm done with this thread, but I'll leave you my phone number in case you run into other problems that need a zip-tie fix 702-927-5689 Glen aka RealkingcobraHey Einstein, do you see that nut on the stud you keep dropping into the foot? That's the JAM nut used to keep the stud from un-screwing from the foot when adjusting the level. No different than a jam nut on a rod if the same make, held in the foot on the inside by a nut, or hex head bolt, sticking out above the foot by 2"-3" with a jam nut locking it in place. The exposed threads of the stud screw up and down inside the flange mounted in the pedestal. What did you call my idea, a zip-tie fix??? I've followed behind lot's of customers like you, having to fix what they did in damage, thinking they knew what they were doing. Please tell me again, how is it that the stud no longer threads up to the foot on that table???
The weight on the foot in nit supported by the threads in the foot, the weight is supported on the top of the foot by the JAM nut locking the threads in the foot to keep the rod from being unscrewed from the foot. Leveling takes place in the flange that the foot rod screws into, that's why it's made from steel, to match the strength of the threads in the steel rod. To many times I've worked on GC's only to find out when I go to level the frame, the foot falls off because it's been completely unscrewed from the rod, and the first 1/4" of threads in the foot are stripped out from to much weight on to few threads!