okay I'm going to try and explain what I did to my stand...
Dis is what happened.
I didn't really like how the legs were free to slip around if they so choose to. So I brought my stand with me to my mums house a few weeks ago, and when my grandpa showed up(they live in my parents back yard in the summer... weird I know) we got talking about it and this is what he came up with.
He used a biscuit cutter on the dowels at first we thought that he would need a cut on the thirds of the dowel... but we botched that and it was actually on the 6ths(You'll see the mistake in a few pictures...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...2/55715d68.jpg
then we cut some slots into 3 smaller dowels and glued some biscuits into them
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...2/758b025d.jpg
then we let it dry for a few hours and I made a whoopie sling type thing to keep the dowels from sliding apart.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...2/38972b26.jpg
All of the dowels are interchangeable and come out easily. It feels much sturdier on a slick floor
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...2/44ba0a62.jpg
I'm lovin it. :) Feel free to ask questions because I know this doesn't make tons of sense, my brain just isn't working right now...