Billiard table wax

don't use wax. if it ever gets to warm(power outage) you are screwed. There is a few new products you can use. Ask a good table mec. about them.
 
Bondo is not good you can use it but it will crack. I will try to get a hold of my table guy, the stuff he uses is as harder than bondo but won't crack i think he said it was liquid diamond. It came in a powder form and mix with water it become very hot. Within 5 mins u sand it level. It will flex not crack. It won't dent if a ball is hit on the joint. I asked him about wax bondo and he gave me the ups and downs. My table is on wood floor and I had use wax in the past with no good results.
 
Billiard Table Wax

fasted71465 said:
Bondo is not good you can use it but it will crack. I will try to get a hold of my table guy, the stuff he uses is as harder than bondo but won't crack i think he said it was liquid diamond. It came in a powder form and mix with water it become very hot. Within 5 mins u sand it level. It will flex not crack. It won't dent if a ball is hit on the joint. I asked him about wax bondo and he gave me the ups and downs. My table is on wood floor and I had use wax in the past with no good results.
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How do you just sand the crack sealer and not the slates? also I believe slate is porous to a degree doesn't the filler bond with it? I don't know the answers to these questions, I am thinking out loud.
 
Thats a question for someone who used these products. I have only used wax. My last table was intalled by WEM from Baton Rouge and they used the new stuff. I watched them but I don't know the tricks of the trade. I do know they sanded it by hand with very fine sand paper. I figure the slate is alot harder and the sealer just sands off surface. I am no expert.
 
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fasted71465 said:
don't use wax. if it ever gets to warm(power outage) you are screwed. There is a few new products you can use. Ask a good table mec. about them.
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I live in Florida, I have a Ohlhausen table on my screened in back porch, the temp is well above 90 today which is average for june through september, I have used 100% natural bees wax since I first started doing tables in 1972 working for Brunswick,, I have not had any problems to date, The only customer of mine that had a problem was one who used there table for a party, and allowed a guest to place a hot tray of food on the cloth,it caused a dark line in the cloth from where the wax actually got hot enough to melt,that is well above normal temps.I have used bondo in the past but if the slate moves and it will, bondo will not flex thus it cracks into little pieces, the whole idea with wax is to allow for minimal movement, One of the physical properties of wood is movement even under optimal conditions it just cant be avoided, I am sure there are several products out there the young guys are using that they think are better. I will stick with what has worked for more than 400 years!!:grin:
Bob
 
I just bought a Brunswick Centennial 10 ft snooker table that was put together with bondo in Deland FL.

It never moved (was on a carpeted concrete floor) and was installed 28 years ago.

However to take this table apart it was an *@b! I think the alternatives are better (wax) and if you use the table as a buffet:crying: then for goodness sake put it on a trivet or a piece of plywood.

I am puting this table back together with wax NO bondo
 
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