I need a little help identifying this Gold Crown

FordSVTCobra said:
It's interesting to look back to the time when GCs were the standard in most of the country before Diamond took that spot. I remember hearing about double and triple shimmed GC tables in other pool rooms and thinking about how tight those must play. The reality is a triple shimmed GC is essentially a factory Diamond table today in terms of pocket size - although they may have played a bit tougher due to the facing angles.

Not taking anything away from the pros who played in tournaments on new cloth with 5" pockets, but that's a bucket compared to the pro tournaments being played on 4" Diamonds today.
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Diamond doesn't have a 'standard' size. You can get League(4.75), Pro(4.5), 4.25, 4.00, etc. HUGE difference in shimming the pockets versus properly extending rails like Diamond does on their tighter pockets. The place i play has nice GC4's they fkn ruined by shimming to about 4-1/8. If properly done (subrail ext-proper angles) they would play light years better. A triple-shimmed GC plays harder than a Diamond with 4" pockets because shimming totally fks up the pocket angles. Because the throats are so tight any ball hit with any speed gets spit out. A 4" Diamond doesn't play that way.
 
It took me 45 minutes to polish one of the corners and it looks like trash. Im just sending them to get powder coated.
 

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BobbyD963 said:
Good points. I appreciate that. My wife and kids think this is the household pool table. While the table will be in my formal dining room I would rather not have them play on it, as pathetic as that might sound. So the less shots they make the less fun they have and the less likely they are to play on the table.
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That table is built to withstand commercial use.

Let those beautiful people play...they prob wont do it often and if they do, yay.
 
BobbyD963 said:
It took me 45 minutes to polish one of the corners and it looks like trash. Im just sending them to get powder coated.
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One thing to be aware of when powder coating old cast parts: outgassing. There's gas trapped in the casing which gets released through heating it up during the powder coating process. Some of my pieces had to be done multiple times. My coater didn't charge me extra but yours might. Just an FYI.
 
rexus31 said:
One thing to be aware of when powder coating old cast parts: outgassing. There's gas trapped in the casing which gets released through heating it up during the powder coating process. Some of my pieces had to be done multiple times. My coater didn't charge me extra but yours might. Just an FYI.
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Thank you for the heads up.
 
BobbyD963 said:
Maybe the oven. Got to wait until the wifes not home 😂
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I suggested the grill because then you can keep any odors outside, sometimes it can make a smell and that will be a dead giveaway to your wife if you do it in the house. My old gas grill was real good at maintaining 250 degrees for cooking chicken parts, I don't know if all will hold low temps that well.
 
garczar said:
wedging the balls in the throat at an angle is not a measurement used to measure pockets. one is the opening(mouth) and the second is the throat which is measured 2'' back from a line across the points of the mouth. A properly cut 4.5" mouth will have a 2.5" throat which is plenty tight. Well, that's what she said anyway. ;)
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I am not quite following the specs here....Measuring on a (RKC converted GCII) measuring at the outermost mouth I get a 4.4something but that may be my lousing measuring so we will round off to 4.5.....The throat is only 2.5 in total length....The rubber pocket Tip to Tip is 3.5 (which is the full 2.5" throat length........at a 2" depth down the throat (which is basically the shelf ledge) the width is 3.9something so again I will round off to 4.........A ball is about 2.25.........From a 4.5 to a 2.5 width there would seem a ridiculous cut angle.....IMO.

Again...I am no "expert" on this stuff...IMO I think it should just be standard...two balls wedged won't go....whatever those official measurements might be.
 
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