Gentlemen,
I just bought my first table, a used Brunswick. I suspect it is about 15 years old. It is 1980's or 90's table, and not the original 1900 era Madison.
As I had never set up a table before, I did a fairly complete setup (using the old cloth) as a trial run. Later, I will move the table to a better location, and at that time I will recover with Simonis.
I suspect that one or more of the previous owners set the table up once or twice themselves.
I am an experienced residential cabinet builder. Unfortunately, as I said, I am not experienced with pool tables. As such, I can not be certain that some of the parts that came with the table are correct.
For instance, the rail bolts are all-thread, with a floating nut in the rail, and washer-style nut for the bottom end. The bore in the slate is about 9/16" (that's just a guess from memory) and the diameter of the washer-head is hardly 1/8 inch larger than the hole in the slate. Thus, there is very little bearing surface on the slate to accept the load from the torque of the nut. (I torqued them all to ten foot pounds as recommended in a search of this forum.)
Do you think the small nut-to-bearing surface differential is Brunswick's design or should I add a washer between the slate and the nut?
The other question relates to excessive noise when pocketing balls. It appears that when a ball enters the corner pockets at certain speed and angles, the ball ricochets off something and then strikes the end of the hardwood blind of either the side or end rail. Naturally, this causes a loud clunk. Other than maybe mitering the blinds back from the pocket, is there something I can do to stop the contact between the ball and the blind?
I have attempted to attach a photo of a Madison so you can see the blind.
Hopefully, that worked. If not I will try again.
Thanks to all of you for sharing your experience and expertise with us.
Cordially,
Joe Fred
I just bought my first table, a used Brunswick. I suspect it is about 15 years old. It is 1980's or 90's table, and not the original 1900 era Madison.
As I had never set up a table before, I did a fairly complete setup (using the old cloth) as a trial run. Later, I will move the table to a better location, and at that time I will recover with Simonis.
I suspect that one or more of the previous owners set the table up once or twice themselves.
I am an experienced residential cabinet builder. Unfortunately, as I said, I am not experienced with pool tables. As such, I can not be certain that some of the parts that came with the table are correct.
For instance, the rail bolts are all-thread, with a floating nut in the rail, and washer-style nut for the bottom end. The bore in the slate is about 9/16" (that's just a guess from memory) and the diameter of the washer-head is hardly 1/8 inch larger than the hole in the slate. Thus, there is very little bearing surface on the slate to accept the load from the torque of the nut. (I torqued them all to ten foot pounds as recommended in a search of this forum.)
Do you think the small nut-to-bearing surface differential is Brunswick's design or should I add a washer between the slate and the nut?
The other question relates to excessive noise when pocketing balls. It appears that when a ball enters the corner pockets at certain speed and angles, the ball ricochets off something and then strikes the end of the hardwood blind of either the side or end rail. Naturally, this causes a loud clunk. Other than maybe mitering the blinds back from the pocket, is there something I can do to stop the contact between the ball and the blind?
I have attempted to attach a photo of a Madison so you can see the blind.
Hopefully, that worked. If not I will try again.
Thanks to all of you for sharing your experience and expertise with us.
Cordially,
Joe Fred
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