I bought these leg levelers to install on the leg extensions for an Explorer 14 inch two burner stove. They are good quality and are very useful to level the stove on uneven ground. That being said, there are two challenges in removing the original installed leg caps and then inserting the replacement levelers.The instructions simply say to remove the old ones and install the new ones. Simple enough on paper but there is always a hard way and an easy way to do things. I wish the instructions provided a bit more insight into how to go about that.Both the original caps and the replacement levelers are a very tight fit into the leg tubes; very tight. I initially tried to pry the original cap off with a screwdriver but they are not just a cap, they have some length, enough to make them a very tight fit. Consequently I had to put the tip of the screwdriver under the cap lip and using a hammer, tap it in many places until enough of the cap was out of the tube so that you could grab it by hand and kind of wrestle it out the remainder of the way. A lot more effort than needed.I have an old axiom that when you are trying to do something that looks simple, should be simple but is either not working or seems unreasonably difficult, you are probably doing it wrong. Here's the easy way. Maybe somebody else figured it out, but it bears repeating anyway.Get a fat round stick about 3 feet long, stick it into the other end of the leg tube about 18 inches or so from the end cap and give it a good healthy shove. I used a long piece of round wooden dowel stock about 1 7/8 in diameter and 30 inches long, but a broom handle would probably work equally well. The cap will pop off effortlessly. I removed the end caps on the remaining three legs in about 20 seconds. Dirt simple.Now about inserting the levelers, that's another challenge. I attempted to hammer in the first leveler, and it was not going in easily, and probably should not have as you want a very tight fit but in this case there is a difference between a tight fit and no fit at all. The problem is that the inside of the leg tube end has a very sharp 90 degree edge that wanted to scrape off the plastic of the levelers, acting like a knife. Hence the reason it would not go in without risking damaging it by brute-forcing it with a hammer, which is unnecessary.I beveled the inside edge of the leg tubes with a small rattail file to remove that sharp edge; it took less than a minute to do each leg. I then coated each leveler with a bit of lubricant and lined it up square to the tube and it only took a few good whacks with a hammer to install it without feeling like I was about to destroy the leveler. And the result was a very, very tight fit, as desired.So there you have it - good product that keeps your stove level on rough ground. If you want to easily remove the original caps and install the levelers into the leg extensions, try what I discovered.
Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]