I just want to hear what kind of ideas people have before I explain how to do it, without changing the sub-rail of the manufacture first.
Glen
Maybe I'll learn something here...LOL.
Glen
Maybe I'll learn something here...LOL.
naaa...not really. Rail rubber is more of an opinion than that of fact.Gabriel signature pro 9ft's use Artimus K66, not K55, and they play as well as a Diamond or a GC, I just don't happen to like their tables BELOW the rails...LOL. I'm a die hard K66 fan myself, so I'm not real sold on the price of the Artimus Intercontinental yet.Eddie4269 said:I'm confused. Is this a trick question?
Why would you want to? Just use Artemis "Intercontinental" No. 66 which is, if I'm not mistaken actually a K-55 profile, which is what the table was intended to have?
I have found that retrofitting tables is more trouble than it's worth.
Hmmm...In my book, you're done. This is just the kind of answer I expected from you, you're a salesman of pool tables...NOT a real billiards technician...figures!...LOLmecanik said:As with you i started as a mech-tech in the mid 80's, now i sell so many new tables in ft myers and naples that it consumes my time, and if trucking around the USA serves you than keep on trucking. I read your post and i'm not impressed with you telling posters what and how to do it and I will stick with face to face conversations. Your loaded self serving questions are tired, so don't try to call me out. P.S. we can can do this till oct.-nov. if you'd like to.
mecanik said:As with you i started as a mech-tech in the mid 80's, now i sell so many new tables in ft myers and naples that it consumes my time, and if trucking around the USA serves you than keep on trucking. I read your post and i'm not impressed with you telling posters what and how to do it and I will stick with face to face conversations. Your loaded self serving questions are tired, so don't try to call me out. P.S. we can can do this till oct.-nov. if you'd like to.
You're not smart enough to get under my skin, or make me mad...LOL Is this the best you can do...posting my picture on your avitar?...Silly little boy...LMAOmecanik said:give up your google search for NAPLES BILLIARDS - ARTS PLACE you silly little tech. Come on take more bate or ingnore me, I dont care.
mecanik said:As with you i started as a mech-tech in the mid 80's, now i sell so many new tables in ft myers and naples that it consumes my time, and if trucking around the USA serves you than keep on trucking. I read your post and i'm not impressed with you telling posters what and how to do it and I will stick with face to face conversations. Your loaded self serving questions are tired, so don't try to call me out. P.S. we can can do this till oct.-nov. if you'd like to.
"younger guys"...what about the older ones too?...see my point?Eddie4269 said:Don't take what I say here and use it to lump me in with "mecanik".
Glen,
I have to say that while I can tell that you've been around awhile and are very knowledgeable, I do think that many of your posts are self-serving and designed to do nothing but toot your own horn. If that be the case, I have no need in sharing what knowlege I do have, I could just keep it to myself.
I've seen time and time again you denegrate the work of other mechanics. You seem to have the attitude that the ONLY way to do a job is the GLEN way to do the job.If the Glen way works, and is new to someone else, and saves them time and confusion, then I guess my way works. I always welcome anyone to offer something different, I'm not opposed to learning something new either. I believe that's called sharing the wealth of knowlege...isn't it?
This thread is a perfect example. You and I, and any table mechanic worth a crap knows that the correct answer for how to convert this table to accept K-66 rubber is a very simple one: DON'T. I would do everything in my power to get a customer off this idea.That's because you've yet to learn what I already know, which is not a bad thing on your part trust me, you just haven't walked the same roads that I have, that's the only difference between us.
What if you were an auto mechanic and a customer said to you, "I recently moved to the country and I would like to convert my Ford Escort to four wheel drive..."? Would you have this person spending 15 thousand dollars to do so? Or would you tell them to sell the Escort and buy a 4x4?I don't work on auto's, I work on pool tables...LOL, and I do it the best way I know how to.
"When enough technicians admit defeat, or come up with some of the most off the wall ways of doing this job, I'll explain how to do it right...and very easy...LOL"I have to admit, I knew this was a loaded question and that no one would respond to it, I just get tired of fixing rails after someone that's suppose to be such a renowned technician, keeps screwing up...because there's NO spicific way in writing as to how to convert the rails. If there was, there'd be less screw ups on rails.
What is your fascination with placing yourself on a pedestal above any and all other techs? You're openly baiting people who are your peers in order to ridicule them. This seems pitiful to me.Most billiards technicians are hard to show anything to, because they already think they know everything there is to know, that's not saying that ALL technicians are that way, so don't take me wrong.
Glen, you're a smart guy. You know alot and you have alot to teach some of the younger guys, but this isn't the way to do it.
I was just in KC, at Shooters to pick up some Diamond dollys...last week. I'll be stopping by Shooters again somewhere around this coming Monday on my way back from ND.Eddie4269 said:Glen,
Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with being proud of what you do. I'm certainly proud of what I do.
But I challenge you to look at your last couple of posts and examine some of what you said. First of all you said to me something to the effect that I don't know what you know. That's quite an assumption. The truth is, we both have a bit of knowledge when it comes to pool, billiard and snooker equipment. What you know and what I know probably overlap by about 90%. I'm sure theres a bit you've run into that I haven't, but I'm also sure that the inverse is also true.
I've worked with and followed behind hundreds of different techs. I look at the work they way I look at my pool game. There have been several mechanics that I would say I would consider not as skilled as I, but that doesn't mean that I can't learn anything from them. Likewise there are players that I can give the 6 ball to that might show me something new.
Anyway, no hard feelings, and since you travel, maybe we can get together and beat up some rails sometime soon. Let me know if you ever come through KC. Ever been to Dan Tull's place?