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I bought this inexpensive Halex foosball table for my family at Toys R Us. It's great, but it annoyed us that we had to reach over to the end of the t...
Parts: 6 feet of 3 x .25" hardwood or plywood 6 feet of 1 x .25" rectangular wood molding Six 2.5" metal angle braces Twelve 1" bolts, plus 2 small w...
Remove the plastic cover from one of the corners between a player's goal and that player's side of the table. (You want the ball to roll back to that ...
Drill a 1.5" hole through the end of the goal box. Be sure your hole is horizontally centered on the box's back wall, with the bottom of the hole just...
If you find a protruding staple or two, pull them out with the pliers. If the pieces are too short to grab, carefully file them down to floor level so...
Be sure the floor of the box is smooth where it passes through the hole. If necessary, sand it or lightly scrape it with the chisel.
With the mallet and chisel, carefully enlarge the lower half of the hole so it looks like a mouse hole.
Roll the ball through the goal several times to be sure it passes through the hole. It doesn't matter if it bounces off the end of the box, as long as...
Dampen the rag or paper towel and wipe the sawdust and debris out of the goal box.
This table is made of composition board that gets dusty and crumbly when you cut it. So with your finger, spread a light coat of wood glue over the in...
To cut the board for the ball lane, measure the distance from the center of the hole to a few inches past the center of the table (where the player st...
Mark and drill the six holes for the three angle braces that will hold the board. This photo shows the braces installed so you can see where the holes...
Attach the angle braces to the table using the bolts, nuts, and washers. (The next photo shows how all the pieces on.) Use the adjustable wrench to ho...
Here's how the washers and nuts go on the bolts. The piece of paper represents the table wall or leg.
If the bottoms of your braces aren't level (mine weren't), use the rubber mallet to gently tap them up or down. Don't worry if they're not perfect; on...
Use the hand saw to cut a piece of 1" molding that's about 1" shorter than the board.
Align the molding with the edge of the board and drill several 1/16" holes through the molding and into the board's edge. (Somehow I managed to do thi...
As you go, you can keep the molding from slipping by pushing a brad partway through one or two of the holes you've drilled.
Apply a thin layer of glue to (1.) the edge of the board (which is pointed toward my knee in this photo), and (2.) the part of the molding where you'l...
Cut a 3.25" piece of the 1" molding and use the same drill/glue/brads method to attach it to the end of the lane. Be sure it's even with the board whe...
Place the lane on the braces (open edge against the table, open end aligned with the center of the goal-box hole), and then...
...duct-tape it on. (Yeah, you could cement it on, or use very short screws, but duct tape worked for me.)
Measure the inside of the PVC connector's end-ring to see how far your pipe will go into it. (Mine was .75")
Place one end of the PVC connector on the end of the lane, align its other end with the hole in the goal box, then measure the distance between the go...
Now add your two measurements (steps 22-23) to find the length of PVC pipe you'll want to cut.Here you can see that my pipe will be 2.75"2" from the ...
Use the HACK saw to cut your piece of PVC pipe. Cut as straight as you can. (Sorry, I didn't take a photo of this.) Gently file off the debris from th...
Tap two brads halfway into the end of the goal box, on either side of the hole, so that when you rest the pipe on them the ball rolls into the pipe. B...
To help the ball roll smoothly, attach something to the bottom of the connector to raise it about 1/4". I used a piece of thick stick-on felt from the...
Place the pipe on the brads and the connector on the end of the lane, then duct-tape the pipe to the brads and the goal box. (You don't have to attach...
[Include a large piece of duct tape on the underside of the pipe]
Slide the corner cover back on till it meets the top of the pipe. Mark the area that you'll need to cut out so the cover can be slid down over the pip...
With the Dremel toolor a coping saw, if you have the patiencecut the corner cover. (WEAR THOSE SAFETY GOGGLES, GO SLOWLY, and BE CAREFUL!) Try fitti...
Reattach the cover. As you can see, I cut the corners off the ends of my lanes to make them a bit more finished-looking. (Don't cut off the parts that...
As a final touch, I got some of this thin foam padding from a discount store's Crafts section and used it to line the insides of my goal boxes.After m...
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