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  1. J

    Gold Crown Adventure

    Cheaper the better! I saw one set up for (gulp) $1400 and that scared me off. I'm planning to go to all white, silver decal, polished metal, and tournament blue simonis. (I would do the purple simonis if my auntie would let me put it in the living room, though) Paint, I was planning to go...
  2. J

    Gold Crown Adventure

    It's plastic, definitely early GC1. Rails are OK, but getting sent in soon for subrail work, modern rubber, threaded inserts, and the two chipped corners on one rail fixed. The rail tops will clean up nice. Any recommendations on paint sprayers, Rexus? I'm in the sticks and planning on...
  3. J

    Gold Crown Adventure

    Photo dump of "befores"
  4. J

    Gold Crown Adventure

    I think the word is "speckled"!
  5. J

    Gold Crown Adventure

    Well, I'm not, but it's worse. I'm the indentured servant of my auntie... I don't have permission to put the table anywhere but my dirty shop. I'm willing to make concessions on table and cloth color if it can go in the living room (28×17, it's perfect other than too much sunlight), but no...
  6. J

    Gold Crown Adventure

    Pool table progress has stopped! This pic was taken 10 feet from the house... I've been too busy running pumps and moving critters for the last few days to do anything on it.... I will start cleaning the rail edges once this water recedes and I get the farm cleaned up, though. Rails are ready...
  7. J

    Gold Crown Adventure

    Was it the shiny stuff that drew ya in?!?! This is the polish i'm using https://whitediamondamerica.com/products/metal-polish-and-sealant
  8. J

    Gold Crown Adventure

    Thank you! Glad to share! I will say it's a messy operation with the buffer and metal polish. I'd have built a containment shield around my vice and wore an apron or something if I was to start it over.
  9. J

    Gold Crown Adventure

    And lots of microfiber towels. Lots.
  10. J

    Gold Crown Adventure

    Soap and water soak, scrub with barkeepers friend and a stiff brush, palm sander with 800 grit paper, wd-40 and scrub with a scotchbrite pad, then buff with a coarse sponge on a drill numerous times using mothers polish and a thinner polish (I'll look at it later)alternately. If there was...
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    Gold Crown Adventure

  12. J

    Gold Crown Adventure

    A week or so back, I took a scooter adventure to the Western side of Montana. I came home to the East side of the State in a uhaul truck, toting my scooter and early Gold Crown I. I have started with the metal polishing and preparing the rails to be sent off for modernization and...
  13. J

    You thought you've heard all the pool arguments

    I tuned in at the end and couldn't take but a couple minutes. I gathered from reading the chat (chalking/shoe tying/racking left plenty of time to get caught up) that there had been moves and stalls all day long, though.
  14. J

    Introduction to 1p?

    Let me know if Billings is ever in your travels... What's the 9' table situation in Missoula?
  15. J

    Introduction to 1p?

    All good suggestions thus far.... Thanks everyone who's replied!
  16. J

    Introduction to 1p?

    I'm already spotting you the "H"... and, I was born in Billings, so it's welcome back! Where are you and do you play 1p? What can I do to pique your interest in the game if not?
  17. J

    Introduction to 1p?

    Hi all, I am no longer in Norfolk and instead am in Montana, still Jon, though! The closest pool hall to me is 50 miles each way and I haven't a complaint about the place. There are four 9' diamonds, one 10' 3c, one 12' snooker, and eight 7' diamonds. It's a bar table centered region...
  18. J

    What size is the table in this photo?

    It looks a lot like the 8' CL Bailey table my neighbors have.
  19. J

    Another "Old Time" Room going out

    I don't remember about smoking, but do remember that a Navy buddy from Arkansas nearly got us kicked out for spitting dip into a bottle there. I just don't remember if it was a no tobacco policy or just no dip.
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