Before & After

To help make it easier to see the level of the entire slate using only one machinist level, I like using the leveling cards I asked Ivan with Simonis to make up for me for the mechanic's training seminar I held last year in Chicago in early August. As you can see, I lay the cards down everywhere I check the level of the slates. The cards purpose is to let me see from standing in one spot, all the high, low, or level areas of the slates.

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Alright all you guys that would argue that the GC1 is the best CG ever built, here's a little fix for this table also. Besides the Brunstone instead of real slate for the playing surface, which if it's flat plays good. The non-adjustable aluminum feet, which means you have to shim the frame for level between the frame and leg pedestal mounts. The figure 8 nut plate to bolt the rails down to the slate, held in place using wood screws, over tightening pulls them loose, so you have to make sure all the wood screws are tight and not stripped out.

If the playing surface is swayback from side to side across the ends and has to be shimmed up, you're going to have to brace the frame of the table, or the shimming won't work. The way the frame is designed, wedges are going to just push down the cross member timber because once again it only relies on a single bolt per side to hold it in place. But this is a different bracing than what I've show for the GC4's.

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You have to lag-bolt some kind of brace across the edge of the center panel in order to stop it from pushing down as you insert your shims to bring up the center of the slate to correct the side to side swayback. If you don't do this...nothing is going to happen to correct the slate. The nuts you see are the nuts at the bottom ends of the machine screws I replaced the factory slot drive wood screws with.
 
Glen,

Very nice work!

Does the sag fix include the GC II?

Also, I sent you a PM if you read those...:)

Mike
 
Spike8ball said:
Glen,

Very nice work!

Does the sag fix include the GC II?

Also, I sent you a PM if you read those...:)

Mike
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Yes, it does, same frame design;) PM? you may have to send it again, every other day I have to download my PM's because they fill up so fast I don't have the time to read most of them, so I try and come back later and read them after I've downloaded:o
 
OK, Glen you're killing me with all of these pictures of this great work on GC1s when MY GC1 sits in my basement just waiting for you :(

any update on your trip to Scranton?:)
 
MikeM said:
OK, Glen you're killing me with all of these pictures of this great work on GC1s when MY GC1 sits in my basement just waiting for you :(

any update on your trip to Scranton?:)
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Leaving Washington State later this week, heading to Vegas, have a table to set up in Utah on the way, Vegas a couple of days, load up some Diamonds from the BCA warehouse, then on the way to Tucson, AZ, on up to Colorado, then Wyoming, then on to the Diamond factory, spend about a week there, then on the way up to New Hampshire to make DVDs for Simonis, then...........:D
 
realkingcobra said:
Leaving Washington State later this week, heading to Vegas, have a table to set up in Utah on the way, Vegas a couple of days, load up some Diamonds from the BCA warehouse, then on the way to Tucson, AZ, on up to Colorado, then Wyoming, then on to the Diamond factory, spend about a week there, then on the way up to New Hampshire to make DVDs for Simonis, then...........:D
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Ah, err, training seminar?
 
realkingcobra said:
Yes, it does, same frame design;) PM? you may have to send it again, every other day I have to download my PM's because they fill up so fast I don't have the time to read most of them, so I try and come back later and read them after I've downloaded:o
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Thanks, that is what I thought. PM sent again.

Mike
 
JoeyInCali said:
Ah, err, training seminar?
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Training seminar's will start up again once I get all the library of DVDs finished, which should be by the end of this coming summer. Then the plans are to host a seminar somewhere every other Saturday somewhere in this country:D

Glen
 
nooooooo

Don't do it!

Leave that roll in table 14,I have that 1 perfected:)

Good BS-ing with you the other day Glenn.I am the guy who was running the Sunday BB tourney 2 weeks ago.
 
smoooothstroke said:
Don't do it!

Leave that roll in table 14,I have that 1 perfected:)

Good BS-ing with you the other day Glenn.I am the guy who was running the Sunday BB tourney 2 weeks ago.
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To late, 14's been leveled:D Starting on the last 2 GC's today, that'll give all you players 8 identical playing GC's for tournaments and general play until I can get back up here with the 10 lights to replace them god awful lights that are over the tables now, maybe June or so. I talked to Clark last night, I think we're going to set the 6x12 snooker table back up as well;)

Glen

PS, going to post some pictures of the room today, to be able to show the before, then again after we get the Gabriels lights all up, and the rest of the work done on the remaining tables:D

Once I'm done with Malarkey's Pool & Brew, there won't be 10 GC's in the country that play identically the same....unless Mark Gregory works on them:mad::D:D:D

Glen
 
Well, with 6 GC1's & 2's rebuilt, 2 to go, and 3 in the waiting until later this year, this is Malarkey's Pool & Brew in Tacoma, WA. I just took tables 7 & 8 apart today for rebuilding.

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Before I work on the remaining tables, I'm working with Clark to get him some better lights over all the tables. That'll help out with business just as much as having 8 perfect playing 9fts. The bar tables do great, but we're even talking about replacing all of them with 15 Diamond 7ft Smart Tables:D
 
the person who setup/recovered this table should be looking for a different job, or the tight raidias of american heritage pockets had that person stumped on what to do.
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dave_k said:
the person who setup/recovered this table should be looking for a different job, or the tight raidias of american heritage pockets had that person stumped on what to do.
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after my recover
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Actually, it looks like who did the work last didn't care. Good job Dave, I'll be in Sioux Falls in a little while, have some other work there to do, we'll get together once I get there.

Glen
 
dave_k said:
the person who setup/recovered this table should be looking for a different job, or the tight raidias of american heritage pockets had that person stumped on what to do.
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after my recover
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Have you been over to the Dakota Cue Club yet?
 
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