This is rocket science and it amazed me when I figured it out. i have been through 3 rods and countless bends and the man still kept flippind down. All you have to do is take the pin out of the men, rotate the men 180 degrees, re-insert the pin...all Wow, you now have a rod where the men stay down

HOW TO MAKE A BEAT UP TABLE PLAY LIKE NEW FOR $50

You need 3 things

a) 12 new balls
b) a toothbrush where you clean all the feet of the yellow and black men
c) 8 new wooden handles <-this is key....new handles make a poor performing table feel like new and with the new balls, the table will feel extra slow and grippy like when they come fresh out of the box.

HOW TO LEVEL A TABLE

This really isn't a trick, but I see so many crooked tables that I wanted to describe an easy way to do it.

You can skip step 1. if you are in an hurry

1. Turn all legs counter-clockwise until they stop when they hit the wood. This means the table is in it's shortest position.

2. See if the table is Flat. If yes, go to 3. If No, turn the leg that is off the ground clockwise until the table is flat. Flat is falt but flat is not level.

3. Grab a ball and slowly roll it accross the middle of the table, from server hole to server hole. If the ball rolls straight, go to 4. if the ball is crooked, go to the end of the table the ball rolled towards.

KEY When you level a table, you must now always adjust two legs...Do not adjust one leg...remember the table is already flat. So what i do is stick both my knees under he table and lift my toes off te ground and amazingly enough, the hole end of the table lifts 3 inches and you can adjust the two end legs at the same time.

4. Repeat step three rolling a ball slowly from goal to goal and then making adjustment on the two side legs rather than the goal legs.

Bye for now A.D.