And there lays the problem, a pool table no one is versed in working on, who for the most part can't even get it right on the tables that have been on the market all along. Its kind of like Brunswicks installer certification course in order to be factory authorized to work on their pool tables. Take a person who's never even set up one pool table, let alone installed the cloth on one, send the person to WATCH someone do a 4 hour demonstration of how to correctly set up, level, and install a Brunswick pool table. After WATCHING the course, the person is given a certification of passing the course and is from then on considered a certified installer....REALLY???? I've been in this line of work since September 1983, and I've trained a lot of installers in my time, and have yet to come across a student with no table mechanic back ground that could install cloth 100% correctly with less than a 100 tables of practice, and even tben still screw up after doing 200 tables. Mark Gregory and i talk about this all the time, and the best way to describe most, not all, but most of the so called table mechanics today which are pushing to be installers, "how much can i make, and how much can i get away with". So, putting out a new pool table like Diamond has, into an ignorant market place of so called table mechanics does what to better this industry? Want to hire a table mechanic to screw pool tables up, hire a factory trained table mechanic, because there is no such training courses. The only training that is done, is how to set up and install new pool tables, and in most cases even thats borderline as most installers are in a time crunch...."how much can i make....and how much can i get away with". I have trained Diamond in the art of gluing down the bed cloth with my system as to AVOID the spray glue, get er' done fast method of installing the bed cloths because its a joke, yet about 99% of all the Diamonds out here are having the cloth installed with spray glue, which results in loose cloth, slow playing tables....why?
