I need some questions answered and I coffer up some hack job pics for you to laugh at
I am no table mechanic nor do I claim to be one but I am handy, know my way around a toolbox, know a thing or two about tables and have a passion for billiards so for me that's a formula to DIY some work on mine and my close friends tables who trust me to do some work.
With that said my friend has been complaining about his "loose bumpers" on his table ever since he hired an outside hack (pics below) to set it up after he bought it used online. I have played on his table several times since he had it installed and it is bad and keeps getting worse. All of the rubber was basically being held in place by the pressure of the cloth between the staples and the feather strip. To top it off the facings were cut poorly, and the ends of his new rubber he bought before the 'mechanics' came to set it up were all hacked up like they were cut with a hacksaw. The rail bolts were only finger tight in most spots and I think I know why when you see the pic below of the extra holes drilled to accept the rails into the table/slate that was not originally for this table make a weak area and the were afraid to over tighten them in fear of braking the little slate there is.
So the question is, what is the best way to clean up the old glue that is still on the rails that was not holding the rubber? It is very sticky and gummy. We are ordering new rubber (again) and I am going to buy some glue once I get the go from you guys. I hear DAP is suitable but so will 3M Fast-Bond10/super 77 (or the RKC equivalent). I do intend to glue the cloth per the RKC method that has been the staple (no pun intended) of the proper way to lay pool table cloth for over 10ish years. So maybe Ill just use that same glue.
Thanks for the help and enjoy the hack job pics.
https://imgur.com/a/cgKeDIL
I am no table mechanic nor do I claim to be one but I am handy, know my way around a toolbox, know a thing or two about tables and have a passion for billiards so for me that's a formula to DIY some work on mine and my close friends tables who trust me to do some work.
With that said my friend has been complaining about his "loose bumpers" on his table ever since he hired an outside hack (pics below) to set it up after he bought it used online. I have played on his table several times since he had it installed and it is bad and keeps getting worse. All of the rubber was basically being held in place by the pressure of the cloth between the staples and the feather strip. To top it off the facings were cut poorly, and the ends of his new rubber he bought before the 'mechanics' came to set it up were all hacked up like they were cut with a hacksaw. The rail bolts were only finger tight in most spots and I think I know why when you see the pic below of the extra holes drilled to accept the rails into the table/slate that was not originally for this table make a weak area and the were afraid to over tighten them in fear of braking the little slate there is.
So the question is, what is the best way to clean up the old glue that is still on the rails that was not holding the rubber? It is very sticky and gummy. We are ordering new rubber (again) and I am going to buy some glue once I get the go from you guys. I hear DAP is suitable but so will 3M Fast-Bond10/super 77 (or the RKC equivalent). I do intend to glue the cloth per the RKC method that has been the staple (no pun intended) of the proper way to lay pool table cloth for over 10ish years. So maybe Ill just use that same glue.
Thanks for the help and enjoy the hack job pics.
https://imgur.com/a/cgKeDIL
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