I have an old air hockey table made by US Billiards from Amityville, NY that is missing the original legs. I want to rebuild them to somewhat original specifications (mostly the look). Below is a picture of the original configuration.
What I do know is that on each end of the table where the legs are there are nutcerts (nuts with claws on them) in the underside of the table. About 6" in from each side. Right now I just put some 4x4 legs with a threaded rod (one end wood screw the other end bolt) under each nutcert.
The issue I have is understanding how the original leg sections were attached to these nutcerts. There has to be some way to put a bolt through the leg sections.
I figured I would put a cross member along the entire top of the leg section and bolt that to the table but the alignment is such that the vertical legs would be right where those nutcerts are and there would be no easy way to attach the leg section once it was built.
Underside of table...Black dots are nutcert locations... yellow area is cross member ideal layout.
Any thoughts as to how those original leg sections would have been constructed? The whole table is plywood and laminates so I assume the legs were also. I could certainly cover the 4x4 posts I have now in melamine and call it done, but that would not let me easily remove the legs, which I think would be ideal and I'd really like to make them look and function like the originals.
Any help?