Let me first thank everyone for the help and positive responses I have received both here and via PM.
Not being a professional table mechanic my initial post and some of my subsequent follow up posts may have been confusing as after re reading them I noticed that I did bounce around a bit in what this table was actually in need of. Being familiar with Valley style bar box tables I was used to rails that detached from the cabinet individually and therefore was looking for clarification as to if this table was similar in that respect.
When I brought up replacing the rails with either Ridgebacks or factory global I was thinking like a Valley table where most of the operators in my area just put precovered rails on and take the old rails back to their shop and recover them at a later time to use on a different table. Which I see now led to a lot of confusion.
The entire question could have been simplified by me by asking if I could break the top down into 4 pieces or more to make flipping the rails over easier than flipping the entire top the several times it would have to be done during the process. For that I apologize.
Now to address something else that has come up in this thread. My statement in regards to ribbons and chevrons was in no way meant to compare to anyone else. It was meant as a statement to say that unless you were MY superior officer you do not have the right to talk down to me and belittle me.
Also RKC while I respect any man or woman that puts on the uniform no matter what their branch of service or MOS might be, how long they served for or if they ever served in combat, I find it highly disrespectful that you would ever attempt to mislead someone into thinking you served in a theatre of conflict if in fact you did not.
It is highly disrespectful to myself and anyone else who did in fact have boots on the ground conducting combat operations and more importantly those that have paid the ultimate price as such!
Not being a professional table mechanic my initial post and some of my subsequent follow up posts may have been confusing as after re reading them I noticed that I did bounce around a bit in what this table was actually in need of. Being familiar with Valley style bar box tables I was used to rails that detached from the cabinet individually and therefore was looking for clarification as to if this table was similar in that respect.
When I brought up replacing the rails with either Ridgebacks or factory global I was thinking like a Valley table where most of the operators in my area just put precovered rails on and take the old rails back to their shop and recover them at a later time to use on a different table. Which I see now led to a lot of confusion.
The entire question could have been simplified by me by asking if I could break the top down into 4 pieces or more to make flipping the rails over easier than flipping the entire top the several times it would have to be done during the process. For that I apologize.
Now to address something else that has come up in this thread. My statement in regards to ribbons and chevrons was in no way meant to compare to anyone else. It was meant as a statement to say that unless you were MY superior officer you do not have the right to talk down to me and belittle me.
Also RKC while I respect any man or woman that puts on the uniform no matter what their branch of service or MOS might be, how long they served for or if they ever served in combat, I find it highly disrespectful that you would ever attempt to mislead someone into thinking you served in a theatre of conflict if in fact you did not.
It is highly disrespectful to myself and anyone else who did in fact have boots on the ground conducting combat operations and more importantly those that have paid the ultimate price as such!
