I'm a convicted nudger, and have carpet in our gameroom as well. To be honest I've never nudged on anything except for carpet so I'm very interested in what you find out... Would a slippery surface allow for more nudging with less tilts or would it just make it less strenuous to nudge.

My pins are on carpet with the rubber feet. The feet do not move so I think nudging is easier. But if you like to throw your machines around when you play, then that will be pretty much impossible.
I try to have my levelers as far down as possible. Up high increases the wobble factor.
Change your stance so you can apply more force. You must be deeply rooted in the Tau to become a Nudge Master, Grasshopper.

Put the game on sliders so instead of nudging you can float the game 3-4 inches side to side, it's awesome

I'm confused here. You want the machine to actually move when you "nudge" it? I mean I know the cabinet rocks, but if you are actually moving the leg levelers on the floor....I think it's time to tighten up that tilt bob (or install one if it isn't there). I have never heard anyone ask what to put under their levers to actually make it more likely to move while you are playing.

I would think carpeting would be the preferred surface for a pin. I may be wrong.....but it sounds like a very strange question to me.

I have carpet and can nudge my games just fine. If the leg levelers are actually moving from their original spot all the time, you are nudging way to hard haha..they may shift a tiny but, but the game shouldn't move much from it's original spot.

I don't know what you people are doing? Or (more likely) I don't know what I'm doing.....but the legs never move when I nudge and I often nudge hard enough to get warnings.

This is on carpet.

Nudging is not sliding the cabinet around. A HARD slap save may move the cabinet. I do that on BOP all the time. But most other times you are just flexing the machine around on its legs. I am known as a heavy nudger among my friends. They wait for the tilt when we get heavy into a tournament.

Take the sliders out. By allowing the game to slide you are not transferring the nudge to the game but just sliding it.

I was at a semi-casual tourney last year. The bar it was held at had smooth concrete floor I believe. Anyway...the tilts were set pretty tight since it was a tourney and one player got a little carried away and actually moved the player end of the machine a few inches so it was sitting lopsided between the other games. He got danger, danger and tilt all in one shebang.

So the next player...a young lady, started to approach the game. Someone being nice said whoa, whoa, whoa...give it a sec and make sure the tilt has settled down. So she waited a few seconds and then stepped up to the game. Then she proceeded to pick up the front of the game and scoot it back to it's original position. Needless to say...danger, danger, tilt. DOH!

You have to nudge/shift the game fairly hard, unless it's a newer Stern that is made out of pressboard, they are super easy to nudge...I kid..I kid...well not really haha...my buddies Tron LE seems like it's 100 pounds lighter than any other Bally/Williams/DE game I've had, so easy to move..

Go to Home Depot and check out the white plastic furniture sliders. They have a foam pad on top of the plastic liar toy can also chek out the more expensive grey ish colored ones of a different manufacturer. They slide a bit easie. The white ones also dampen the noise, as o the others if you put padding between the slider and the leg. I think the white ones are "move-alls". You could check out Pin-Footies which also would help and look nicer if you care about esthetics.
Allen

So which is it?

Carpets come in all different shapes and sizes. Each has their own characteristics when it comes to nudging. Some have a 'grain' which allows nudging much easier in one direction over another. Using anything under the levelers, you're just going to have to experiment. The chances of someone here having the exact same carpet as you is going to be pretty slim.

I use the Home Depot sliders. They don't crush the carpet as much and they still allow me to control the ball movement by nudging the cab.

remove the carpet

Wtf

Nudge better. Put your back into it!!

Insane necro.

I'd install some furniture glides on the feet. Just be careful you don't slide the game through a wall.

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