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#138101 05/10/06 09:33 PM
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Hi all I am looking to get a air hockey table and wanted to know if anyone here owns or ever owned one. Willing to spend $700 max. It will be used mainly by the kids.
Any feedback would be great.


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#138102 05/10/06 09:43 PM
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Don't have one myself, but they are usually on display at my local Costco. If you are still in California then you should have a store near you.

Here's one online at costco.com for $749.99


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#138103 05/10/06 10:28 PM
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#138104 05/11/06 02:12 AM
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Thanks guys. The one from Sam's club looks like a good deal. i found that table on another site for over $700. I am goinng to look a little more but most likely will be ordering from sam's later this week.


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#138105 05/13/06 04:15 AM
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Air Hockey has always been one of my favorite things at the local arcade... would love to get one of those industrial types thou, I'm sure they are in the thousands.

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#138106 05/14/06 04:38 AM
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Be sure you test out the table before buying it. Lots of tables I've played with are very cheap and break easily after use. I think another way to test a good hockey table is slamming the puck as hard as you can across the table, and see if it flies off to the far reaches of the store.

The reason I say this is with some tables, you spend half your time LOOKING where on earth that darned puck went in the room because it flies off the table so much. I think I might be the youngest on this board...maybe...but that's what I remember. When I was a kid, I wish that puck didn't fly everywhere. So, maybe you're kids will appreciate that too, unless you want them to have fun playing hockey puck hide-and-go seek.

P.S. If the table is in the same room with your axioms, be extra careful .



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#138107 05/14/06 06:11 AM
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Played some Air Hockey tonite actually.

Reguarding the puck flying off the table, it's my experience that the weight of the puck and its condition have a lot to do with its ability to stay on the table. Those cheap tables seem to come with light pucks that have a tendancy to not stay flat against the table thus not very hard to get em airborn. Also when the puck gets nicked over and over on the edges after a while it doesn't make a good seal on the table and the same thing happens.

Yes I've spent a fortune in the arcade playing over my lifetime. All non-scientific studies of course.

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#138108 05/14/06 07:17 PM
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You mean you haven't done a double blind air hockey test yet? I think one of those is in order!

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#138109 05/16/06 04:17 AM
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I was thinking the same thing.




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