Can slate warp?

[Fatboy]

Sorry guys, wrong answers Yes, slate can warp to the point that it's high in the center or low. Just ask Diamond, as they have quit a few slates that are high centered from the start, so they don't use them on the ProAm's or Smart tables, instead they stack them up piled high outside the factory with 2x4's placed around the outside edges, in a way as to not support the center of the slate. Over time exposed to the rain, sun, heat, and cold, they slowly start to change in the center of the slates, sagging back down to level, or even low centered...which is an easy adjustment to correct on the frame of the tables...but it takes quite a bit of time for the change to take place

Glen

this is correct, Glen is 10000% spot on.

 

[Celtic]

Doesn't seem like it would but I have seen some tables that seem to defy the idea that rock doesn't bend over time. Thoughts?

Rock can bend over time.

 

[Tramp Steamer]

Rock can bend over time.

That isn't rock, Celtic. It's worm excrement.
You see, as worms burrow their way through the strata they devour the earth in front them, then expell it out behind them.
Admittedly, those were some damn big worms.
I hope I have been of some assistance. :smile:

 

[Celtic]

That isn't rock, Celtic. It's worm excrement.
You see, as worms burrow their way through the strata they devour the earth in front them, then expell it out behind them.
Admittedly, those were some damn big worms.
I hope I have been of some assistance. :smile:

Ahh yes, dinosaur worms, must be Cretaceous era or earlier!

 

[Bob Jewett]

Doesn't seem like it would but I have seen some tables that seem to defy the idea that rock doesn't bend over time. Thoughts?

I've seen warped slate. I've also seen slate where some of the layers kind of bubbled up and flaked off in one small area. That was on a 1930s table.