Before & After

[realkingcobra]

Well, finally...both sets of rails rebuilt, time to install the rail cloth and take them back to Malarkey's pool room tomorrow morning, then pick up the last two sets of rails I'm going to rebuild for a total of 8 rebuilt GC1's & 2's there, still have the final 3 in waiting. I'll take some pictures tomorrow of the room and the tables so everyone can see, it really IS a good pool room/restaurant...food is off the hook!!:thumbup:









This is that rail that the beavers chewed up...LOL

 

[Quesports]

No Way

NO WAY it was beavers Glen, more likely a drunken half blind woodpecker!!
Malarkeys patrons are a lucky bunch of pool players that's all I know!
Take Care,
Dan

 

[realkingcobra]

NO WAY it was beavers Glen, more likely a drunken half blind woodpecker!!
Malarkeys patrons are a lucky bunch of pool players that's all I know!
Take Care,
Dan

What ever do you mean by lucky?...:rotflmao1::rotflmao1:

 

[Fatboy]

not bad for a rookie

you do great work Glen, we just need to figure a way to teach 5000 people what you know or 80% of what you know and get paid by them. Everyone wins, you get paid, table fitters become a recognized profession with pride, and the players.

You, Mark, and Ernesto/Oscar and one other fellow who's name I cant recall are true pro's. I'm sure there are more that are great, but 90% of the table fitters suck-I dont think ists because they dont care, they just dont know.

 

[realkingcobra]

but 90% of the table fitters suck-I dont think ists because they dont care, they just dont know.

And THAT is what I'm working on to change....as you already know

 

[gunzby]

You have really made table mechanictry (yes I made it a word) a craft. That work is impressive :thumbup:

 

[realkingcobra]

Didn't make it to Malarkey's today, took a lot longer to install the cloth on the rails than I thought it would with my finger being cut on my table saw, so will be putting the 2 GC1's back together Sunday, will get pictures and post then.

Glen

 

[Mikjary]

Didn't make it to Malarkey's today, took a lot longer to install the cloth on the rails than I thought it would with my finger being cut on my table saw, so will be putting the 2 GC1's back together Sunday, will get pictures and post then.

Glen

Welcome to the club! Now you know why I use duct tape instead of super glue. When there's a chunk missing, you got nothing to glue back together. Duct tape has saved what's left of my fingers more than once.:grin-square:

 

[realkingcobra]

Welcome to the club! Now you know why I use duct tape instead of super glue. When there's a chunk missing, you got nothing to glue back together. Duct tape has saved what's left of my fingers more than once.:grin-square:

WHAT ONCE...is ENOUGH for me

 

[ROB.M]

finger

I hope your finger heals with no effects of your work..
How the hell did u manage to cut your finger with the table saw???-OUCH'
A trip to hospital?
Go easy...

Robert.M

 

[realkingcobra]

This is Clark, owner of Malarkey's Pool & Brew...learning how to work on his own tables. From leveling the slates, to trimming off the excess slate backer boards flush with the edge of the slates, to installing the bed cloths and finishing off the pockets. We're not working on the rails as of yet, I'm still doing that because it's way to much to learn at this point, especially since I'm rebuilding the rails completely.

 

[realkingcobra]

Here's the rebuilt rails before the pockets are installed. And yes, these are the rails that should have been thrown out, not repaired...but...

 

[realkingcobra]

 

[realkingcobra]

Well, on the way back to Malarkey's Pool & Brew again, this time to fix a broken slate someone tried to fix in the past, but didn't do a very good job of it, because there are ridges in the surface of the slate where the crack is at, which causes the balls to roll off. I'll post pictures of this later on tonight

Glen

 

[realkingcobra]

these threads are great, perhaps the best possible type of thread there is.

I know thats a big statment but here is why, there are a handful of top table fitters in America, all of America. I dont think that the reason is there is so few is because the not-so-good ones want to do poor work, I think its because they dont know any better. This shareing of knowlege table fitter teaching other table fitters effects a whole pile of tables that we as players use, thus these threads effect more people than the average thread.

My biz partner paid 9.5K for a B-Wick furnature looking table (that probably cost B-Wick less than $600 shipped) with burgandy 860 on it. I was over at his house the other day and one of the rails is so loose you can almost hear the bolts rattle, it aint level, the cloth isnt pulled right etc etc. The reason I mentioned my opinion of the cost of the table is somewhere between the cost of $600 and the sales price of $9500 there should be some $$$ for proper installation. I dont have a beef with B-Wick making $$$ or the retailer, but not having adiquate knowlege of how to install a product with that much profit in the deal time and time again is shameful.

I just thought I'd add to that statement fatboy, the table mechanic as I see them, is the last line of defense between the table manufacture and the customer, and I feel strongly that if it's the "customer" paying the bill, the mechanic is suppose to stand up for the customer against the table manufacturer if there is something wrong with the equipment being installed. The problem today is that most of the mechanics either (1) don't know any better, (2) don't care, just as long as they get paid, (3) care, but can't say something for fear of losing their job at the retail store, (4) or feel that the retail store is more important than the end customer.

Another major problem is to many people have the attitude that it's just a pool table, so what's the problem....until it becomes THEIR pool table that has the problem

Customers need to be more informed, so they can stop being victims of poor craftsmanship, either by the mechanic, or by the manufactures in this industry, and believe me....I intend to do something about that....real soon, starting right here on AZ.

Glen

 

[realkingcobra]

I'll tell everyone something about Greg Sullivan and the people at Diamond. They are the ONLY table manufacture today that I'm aware of that isn't just satisfied with last years model of pool tables they produced and that makes them OK for sales this year. There's a reason Diamond is weak in the home table designed line of tables, and that's because Greg is not 100% satisfied with the play of the tables yet that they DO produce today. I don't mean that in a bad way, I mean it in a good way, because if a table has reached perfection in the way it plays....no one should have a complaint, but today...that isn't the case. But, unlike any other table manufacture, DIAMOND and Greg are not going to sit back and just say, well...the play is just OK, and besides it's just a pool table anyway. Believe me, when Greg has hit that point of perfection in the way the Diamond tables play...EVERYONE will know, and a lot will be sitting back playing on a Diamond and thinking to themselves....wow, this table plays great, don't know what Diamond did, but whatever it was...it WORKED!

And once again, I want to make this clear to everyone, though I don't work for Diamond directly, meaning I'm not on their payroll, I do work for all those that buy Diamond tables, as they are the people that employ me when they buy a Diamond table, and I'm the mechanic delivering it.

I do however give my 100% support to Diamond in all the efforts they have made in the last 10 years that I've been involved with, and will continue to do so, so long as Diamond requests my services because I honestly believe...a pool table can hit "perfection" in the playability, and I'm 100% willing to see this project through all the way and help any way I can along the way

Glen

 

[realkingcobra]

Well, here's another problem that needs to be fixed on one of the GC1's. Clark told me that the slate has been broken ever since he's owned the pool room, and every year the tables have been recovered...it still looks like this.





So, this time it's going to get fixed

 

[realkingcobra]

After taking the slates apart, removing the slate liner boards, then place the slate up on the soup cans so it's up off the bottom slate and easy to work on. Then use c-clamps to mount L channel to the bigger piece of slate to provide support for the broken piece to sit on. Then use a straight edge to adjust the slates for flatness, once done, super-glue the pieces together in position.

 

[realkingcobra]

Alright, slates repaired, time to remount it and level.

 

[realkingcobra]

Bottom side fixed as well, but it broke off pretty clean so no need for bondo.