Das Cue-Boot
Active member
I'm replacing the cloth on the moderately well used table at our local Senior Center. Since they help out another club that I belong to I am doing it for free if they buy the cloth. Done it and leveling before, not a big problem. Nearest mechanic we could pay for is more than an hour and a pass away, so they'd be paying big bucks just for travel before they even set foot in the room. Apparently they are a bunch of yahoos that don't do good work anyway.
Here's my problem:
The table measures (bumper edge to bumper edge) 46 inches by 92 inches, so is two inches wider and four inches longer than the 44x88 table I have at home. I believe this should be considered a 4 x 8 standard sized table I’ve talked with the supplier and Championship, both of whom told me this is a 4 x 8 oversized, and that I need to be ordering cloth for a 9 foot table and cutting it down. From what I can figure, the size of the cloth will be 51 x 96, so I will have about an inch or so on each side to handle the 4 x 8 slate and wrap it around to staple down. Is that enough, or should I just tell them to go with the 9 foot size, which will give me about 5 inches on each side to work with, but much of that would just be cut away and wasted.
Don’t mind the work of cutting so much, but it will add some cost for purchase, and as a good citizen, trying to keep their costs down.
So relying on the experience of some of you out there who do this for a living, what size cloth should I tell them to order, 8 or 9 foot?
As always, thanks in advance for the help.
Here's my problem:
The table measures (bumper edge to bumper edge) 46 inches by 92 inches, so is two inches wider and four inches longer than the 44x88 table I have at home. I believe this should be considered a 4 x 8 standard sized table I’ve talked with the supplier and Championship, both of whom told me this is a 4 x 8 oversized, and that I need to be ordering cloth for a 9 foot table and cutting it down. From what I can figure, the size of the cloth will be 51 x 96, so I will have about an inch or so on each side to handle the 4 x 8 slate and wrap it around to staple down. Is that enough, or should I just tell them to go with the 9 foot size, which will give me about 5 inches on each side to work with, but much of that would just be cut away and wasted.
Don’t mind the work of cutting so much, but it will add some cost for purchase, and as a good citizen, trying to keep their costs down.
So relying on the experience of some of you out there who do this for a living, what size cloth should I tell them to order, 8 or 9 foot?
As always, thanks in advance for the help.
