Can someone make a Valley table play better?

realkingcobra

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Well, that all depends on who does the work!

First, clean all the glue off the slate, top, bottom, and in the pockets. Install the bed cloth, set aside.

Recover the new Penguin Pro rails, making sure to fold the side pocket correctly, and wrap the damn cloth around the back side under the bottom of the rail so it sits right when bolted back on!!! Don't need wider than 6" rail cloth either if you know what you're doing!!!

Gut the table and Install drop pockets, and CLEAN the cabinet out!!! Make sure the 4 corner castings are line up with the rail caps, and tightened in place.

Place the slate back up on the cabinet, put a rail on the edge of the slate, then use an adjustable square to measure from the top of the rail to the bottom of the slate, lock the square in place. Then take the square and place it on top of the rail cap and measure down to the slate support bracing, you'll see the gap between the end of the square ruler and the slate support bracing. Fill up that gap with at least 2 thickness of your fall down cloth, or get you some drink coasters, cut them into strips, placing 2 thick everywhere the slate sits, because you're going to find out the slate sits about 3mm deeper innthe cabinet than the rails do if they're flush with the formica finish of the rails, leaving you a 3mm gap between the bottom of the rails and the surface of the slate, which just HAPPENS to effect exactly how those, or any other rails are going to play.....dead!!!

When you get all this done, put the table back together again, then sell it if you want, or keep it to play on.
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