What years did Brunswick make T rails for their tables?
T Rails
- Thread starter BigAlTheTiger
- Start date
1845 - 1945
There were some models of 'flat rail' tables as early as 1939 or '40, the 'Moderne' for example.
By 1945, the year of the Anniversary and Centennial, all were flat rail style
I believe.
Dale
So the flat rail are the same or different as T rails?
No, the flat rails are not the same as the T rails.
Typically a T rail would bolt directly into the side of the slate.
Eventually they figured out that doing it that way was a bad idea, so they switched to a "flat" style rail that bolted thru the slate edge vertically instead.
The T-Rails put the attach bolts into tension style situation, creating a stretching situation for the bolt & the side rail when applying the side load.
The flat rails put the bolts into a situation of lateral Shear, gaining from the load of the slates to assist the bolt(s) in compression to clamp a larger surface area.
I hope that helps...
The flat rails put the bolts into a situation of lateral Shear, gaining from the load of the slates to assist the bolt(s) in compression to clamp a larger surface area.
I hope that helps...
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Did other manufactures also use the t rail during that 100 year period?
British snooker tables still use the T-rails.....
...we bought a Chinese eight-ball table....they are T-rails also.
Are there any advantages of the T-rail system?
I think T-rails are more trouble....snooker 'match tables' use steel-block' rails to make
them hit.....like the North American bolting system.