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  • Prince Ping-Pong Table Surface Leveler

    Mary redesignated the Prince Tournament 6800 ping-pong table that Came With The House™ as her quilting layout table, so it now fills much of the Sewing Room (f.k.a. the Living Room):

    Mary with quilt on ping-pong table
    Mary with quilt on ping-pong table

    For reasons lost in the table’s history, the two halves of the top surface weren’t quite flush on one side, by a matter of a few millimeters. This bothered me far more than it did her, so the delay until I finally fixed it wasn’t critical:

    Prince ping-pong table leveler
    Prince ping-pong table leveler

    That’s 3 mm plywood + 1.5 mm Trocraft Eco pushing the surface upward just enough to almost make the joint (visible near the bottom of the picture) flush within +2 -1 mm across the table width, making it obvious that neither piece is exactly planar.

    The shape has mixed metric and inch dimensions, for no reason I know:

    Prince ping-pong table leveler
    Prince ping-pong table leveler

    If you ever need such a thing, remember to use screws about 4 mm longer than the ones you took out.

    The LightBurn layout as an SVG image:

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