Grey, if you'll read back on some of my posts, I stated that back in the 80's around 83/84 I tried using tack strips, so please keep in mind, tack strips are not new and innovative with todays use by OTLB, and I'm not knocking him for trying them out, that's his call. I for one, felt that there was a better way of attaching the bed cloth to slates back in the 80's other than having to replace missing backer boards in order to install tack strips, and worked on a lot of bar tables that they couldn't be applied to, so I passed on the idea, and believe me, I'm not the only one that tried that method a long time ago and dropped it as a good idea but not really feasible in the real world, as back then I worked on ALL kinds of pool tables, including 23 different kinds of manufactured coin-operated pool tables dumped in Washington State by just about every coin-op manufacture there was at the time.
Next subject, glue and the smell of it. When was the last time you heard of someone getting brain damage from glue, unless they put model glue in a brown paper bag, shoved it over their nose and breathed it all in...because they'd heard you could get high that way!
As far as being pregnant and smelling the glue I use, you're way off track here buddy. A pregnant woman smells more fumes from pumping her own gas at a gas station...every time she buys gas for her car! I don't ever recall hearing a pregnant woman come into a gas station and tell someone in there they had to go out and pump her gas for her...because she's pregnant! Yet, there is the dumb-shits that still believe that they can get high sniffing gasoline out of a brown paper bag as well.
Point is, when using the glue I use, don't use it unless there's ventilation, don't pour some in bag and try sniffing it, don't stick your nose in the can and breath deeply...that's NOT what the glue is used for. Use it the way it was designed to be used...and no problems.
If you want to know what smells worse, use oven-off to clean your oven, bleach to clean your toilet, or follow close behind a diesel truck for miles at a time, second hand smoke from cigarettes is another one.
In the last 26 years, I've never heard of someone being sued, or getting brain damage from having their pool table recovered by someone using glue, but I HAVE heard of people DIEING after getting a flu shot, that was suppose to keep them from catching the flu!!!!!!!!!!!
Believe me, there's no band wagon being formed against mechanics using glue to install bed cloths, or cushions/facings....only mechanics that talk about all the bad things that "could" happen, if conditions are right...because they don't want to change the way they work...for the better, even though if used right, it's safer than pumping your OWN gas!
Glen
PS. Ever heard of someone DIEING....because they DRANK to much?...Did you know that you can DIE from drinking to much WATER!, let alone to much alcohol!
