Bar table help

[Ky Boy]

Can someone point me somewhere about covering a bar table??

I have covered a few tables before and with pretty good results. But I have never covered a bar table before and am not familiar with removing the rails and the traditional method of covering the slate.

A friend has a table he wants me to cover but I have never seen a bar table disassembled so I don't want to remove something that shouldn't be removed. Also his rails are VERY loose. Will this tighten when I put them back or is there something else going on????


Any pointers???? BTW, it is a valley!!


Thanks

Gary

 

[LCCS]

table

Is it the rails or the rubber? Just put on some new Ridgeback rails. Call Kerry and i am sure he will cover them in what you want. Then all you have to do, is the bed. If you have never did a bar table, this will save you time and money. Thanks, Ron:thumbup:

 

[Dartman]

Can someone point me somewhere about covering a bar table??
I have covered a few tables before and with pretty good results. But I have never covered a bar table before and am not familiar with removing the rails and the traditional method of covering the slate.
A friend has a table he wants me to cover but I have never seen a bar table disassembled so I don't want to remove something that shouldn't be removed. Also his rails are VERY loose. Will this tighten when I put them back or is there something else going on????
Any pointers???? BTW, it is a valley!!Thanks
Gary

Remove the chrome trim around the perimeter of the table. This gives you access to the 3 bolts per rail.
Once the rails are off the slate can be accessed. Lift each end and prop a 2x4 underneath and you shouldn't have
any trouble working with the slate cloth which is glued to the slate edges. If there is an excess of old glue here
try to remove as much as possible. You can also move the slate around to access the inside of the table to clean
ball return channels and general cleaning.

When you remove the cloth from the rails you can tell if any of the cushions are loose. If the cushions appear good
you can spot glue any loose spots. Also check the rail bolts and t-nuts to see if any are stripped. You'd need to fix
any problems here before recovering the rails.

You can review further information from Valley-Dynamo here - http://www.vdlp.net/pdf/september2006/Recovering the slate.pdf

 

[Johnnyt]

Remove the chrome trim around the perimeter of the table. This gives you access to the 3 bolts per rail.
Once the rails are off the slate can be accessed. Lift each end and prop a 2x4 underneath and you shouldn't have
any trouble working with the slate cloth which is glued to the slate edges. If there is an excess of old glue here
try to remove as much as possible. You can also move the slate around to access the inside of the table to clean
ball return channels and general cleaning.

When you remove the cloth from the rails you can tell if any of the cushions are loose. If the cushions appear good
you can spot glue any loose spots. Also check the rail bolts and t-nuts to see if any are stripped. You'd need to fix
any problems here before recovering the rails.

You can review further information from Valley-Dynamo here - http://www.vdlp.net/pdf/september2006/Recovering the slate.pdf

May I just add to this, although I'm far from being a table mechanic. While you have the slate out, if it's a Valley make sure the two bolts each on the corner castings are good and tight. Mine were loose and my rails (old and new) played vevy bad. I found one missing bolt and three or four others were loose. Rails play great now. Johnnyt