It doesn't have to be perfect, to play well. Congrats, enjoy it. So, what did your guy do with the rails and which cushions did you use?
help on buying my first table
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I was commenting that the snooker tables were 10' and 12' because some other fellow said he thought that maybe it was a snooker table because it was missing the ball storage rack.
I think yours is a Gold Crown where someone substituted a head rail apron for the foot rail storage box and side aprons.
You can probably get those parts from someone who "does" tables and has an inventory, maybe @trentfromtoledo .
But, the configuration of yours is not like any standard Gold Crown that I know of. But then, who knows? Brunswick did a lot of things, maybe this was part of a custom order. Unfortunately, apparently their records are poor or lost.
He replaced the suprails with some new wood, I used superspeed rubber, I think that's what would be supposed to be in this table, and the cloth is Simonis 860, that was a suggestion from the mechanical due to the colour that I chose
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That's really good cloth, the best, in the opinion of many. I have Simonis 860 on mine, too. Mine's gray.
Remarkable as it may seem, mine has what I believe is the original rubber, and it performs as good as new. Not only does it seem to play well, I have a digital durometer, and the rubber tests good, too. That rubber was amazing. They apparently lost the recipe, though, as the GC III rubber became hard as a rock a couple of years after delivery. Shame.
Many GC3s had an issue with rubber doing that. The problem from a manufacturing point of view is that if you find a new vendor (or a new process) you won't know for months or years whether it was a mistake. Brunswick found the wrong vendor, evidently.
So, in about 4 1/2 months from your first post, you are all set. Sweet
I wonder if the tables exported to Canada were slightly diffenent, even the pool tables (not snooker). I recall some threads here in the past where some pool GC tables looked a bit different, but were original pool, not snooker tables. Its very common in lots of industries to have slightly different models for different countries.