I was just moving around some stuff in my garage, where I am storing my table's slate pieces. (I ended up having to buy a smaller house than I wanted to after a major flood in 2005, so the table has is in pieces - the legs only got a few inches in that flood, but the wooden frame was in a shed that ended up getting flooded repeatedly, unbeknownst to me, but that is another story for another topic :angry
. It's a Brunswick 7' table with 1" slate (it was the most expensive one Brunswick sold in the late '80s, with a nice tropical wood finish), and I found that I was able to pick up momentarily using just my hands on the side the individual slate pieces. I am a former weightlifter, so I am strong, but I still had to rely on the shear friction of my hand on the slate to get that upward force, so it's not quite like doing a bent-over row lift. The only other times I lifted the slate was with someone else helping, or going from a dolly to my wagon back bay and back, so I was able to lift it axially and not depend on friction. (Perhaps only someone who has studied the mechanical sciences understands my terminology.)
From what I can gather online, slate has a specific gravity of 2.8, or a density of .1 lbm/in^3. As 1" thick slate for a 7' table has a net of about 3510 in^3, each of the 3 sections should be about 1170 in^3. or 117 lb, which is what it seems to feel when I pick them up. Does this sounds about right, or is the slate used for billiard tables lighter or heavier?
. It's a Brunswick 7' table with 1" slate (it was the most expensive one Brunswick sold in the late '80s, with a nice tropical wood finish), and I found that I was able to pick up momentarily using just my hands on the side the individual slate pieces. I am a former weightlifter, so I am strong, but I still had to rely on the shear friction of my hand on the slate to get that upward force, so it's not quite like doing a bent-over row lift. The only other times I lifted the slate was with someone else helping, or going from a dolly to my wagon back bay and back, so I was able to lift it axially and not depend on friction. (Perhaps only someone who has studied the mechanical sciences understands my terminology.)From what I can gather online, slate has a specific gravity of 2.8, or a density of .1 lbm/in^3. As 1" thick slate for a 7' table has a net of about 3510 in^3, each of the 3 sections should be about 1170 in^3. or 117 lb, which is what it seems to feel when I pick them up. Does this sounds about right, or is the slate used for billiard tables lighter or heavier?
