I'm replacing some really old carpet in my basement, what are people using to protect their floors from pinball machines? I'm deciding between vinyl and carpet for the games/tv room.
Floor Protection
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luch
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LOCK-IS-LIT
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I would also recommend going to your local Dollar Store and buying a set of furniture moving slides. These are basically a flat plastic 4" round dish with a foam pad on their top side to help keep it in place under the legs. This work awesome for sliding you Pinball over carpet, hardwood or concrete without marking your floor. Don't use the same set for hardwood as you have used for concrete floors as the concrete does rough up their surfaces.
BMHouze
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I use recessed centre dolly a triangle of wheels with a cup in the center.
Carpet = threat of static charge.
Vinyl is colder, will let your guests know it's time to go. Cleans up spills easier. Items that fall on the floor are easily spotted.
Just my 2 cents
Carpet = threat of static charge.
Vinyl is colder, will let your guests know it's time to go. Cleans up spills easier. Items that fall on the floor are easily spotted.
Just my 2 cents
Chris Bardon
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I've just got my games straight on the carpet. No need to have extra coasters on them. Yeah, they'll leave dents, but anything heavy will, and it means that if I move something, I know exactly where it goes back to be level again 
I went with vinyl plank in my basement for my gameroom. It's very durable and don't have to worry over spills and swelling like you would with laminate. In regards to leg levelers you could these with nylon built in so should slide easily.
I have something similar to this but no longer available from Marco but they were called EZ glide leg levelers. They slide so easy that I recently bought the rubber feet or cups shown above from Eddie's pinballleds.ca I put on the front feet of all my games so they don't slide around when people nudge but if I need to slide my games out I just lift and the back legs are the nylon ones.
Leg Leveler with Nylon Glide
Nylon Leg Leveler with 3/8-16 Thread, 1-1/2" Base, 3" Shaft. Suitable replacement for Williams/Bally #08-7377.
www.pinballlife.com
I have something similar to this but no longer available from Marco but they were called EZ glide leg levelers. They slide so easy that I recently bought the rubber feet or cups shown above from Eddie's pinballleds.ca I put on the front feet of all my games so they don't slide around when people nudge but if I need to slide my games out I just lift and the back legs are the nylon ones.
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necro_nemesis
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Porcelain tile with a PEI rating of 5. Can drag machines over the floor on their metal feed and there's no sign of damage. Having said that I use a dolly to protect the machines.. not the floor.
Thanks everyone, I appreciate the advice. We're doing a few things to the basement so still just in the planning stages, the contractor we've used and trusted is lined up for spring/summer depending on his schedule which has been thrown off a lot this year due to supply chain issues.