Broken slate
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I repair slate with super glue to hold it once I have it flat, then epoxy the crack as much as possible and then bondo. lay some wax paper down on one of the other slates and use that slate for your flat surface.
slate
I super glue it together and then use rage light weight filler.
Thanx, Ron www.lccsbilliards.com
I super glue it together and then use rage light weight filler.
Thanx, Ron www.lccsbilliards.com
I can't answer your question unless I know what kind of crack developed in the slate. A more or less straight up and down crack? A shelf type of crack? Is the slate broken in more than once piece...or just cracked? I've put slates back together before that were cracked into 3 pieces, as well as one piece bar slates broken right down the middle into 2 pieces...so, it really depends on how it's cracked. Not all broken slates can be repaired. There's also a difference in trying to repair Italian slate VS Brazilian slate.billy-ks said:
Glen
OK, I have some time now to respond to your question. While I was up in Alaska delivering some pool tables, one of the bars I was at had a 7ft Valley with a broken slate...right down the middle. The break was a shelf like break, meaning that the top edge of the slate was about 2 to 4 inches over to the right of the bottom edge of the broken slate. This was a good break, easy to fix. After pulling the broken slate out of the frame of the table, I placed 4 2x4's across the rails of the table, I leveled the frame of the table, then leveled the slate across the 2x4's from side to side...end to end don't matter. I used my clamps at both ends of the slate to clamp the slate ends together as close to original as possible first. Then I drilled out a big enough hole to insert a 10x32 machine screw and secured it with a nut and washers on both sides. I did this about every 4 inches of the of the crack centering the screws in the middle of the crack on both sides. I kept the playing surface facing side up. After firmly screwing both pieces of the slate together and making sure the fit was good, I took the slates back apart, cleaned out the crack again of the loose pieces of slate from drilling it out, then put it back together again. Once it was back together, I filled the top side of the slate with super glue, feeding it into the crack slowly, inch by inch, letting it dry each time, until on the last pass it formed a bead of super glue on the top of the crack. Also on the bottom side of the crack, I taped over the crack with duct tap as to be able to form a dam to contain any super glue that was going to drip through the slate crack.billy-ks said:
Once I finished super gluing the slates together, I scraped off any excess glue that was above the surface of the slate as to make sure the surface was flat. Next, I used bondo to fill in the crack, it took 3 applications before I finished this part. After the surface side of the slate was done, I flipped over the slate, then scraped off the duct tape, sanded, and bondo filled the bottom side of the slate, then sanded that flat. Once both sides were now fixed, I removed the machine screws, bondo filled the holes, flipped over the slate, and filled the surface side of the machine screw holes with bondo as well. Job done! Recovered the table with Simonis 860 and went on about my job of delivering tables.
Glen
Glen
The key to using super glue, is you have to let it dry between each application. Sooner or later it'll build up on itself and fill in the crack until it seals it closed, but it won't fill in if the crack is to wide, or if you just keep feeding it into the crack without first letting it dry. It's kind of like welding, several small welded beads are better than one large weld.
Glen
Glen
I've used loctite as well, but any super glue will do.billy-ks said:
Glen