Ok ,
Let me start by saying I am writting this so that people will understand
what a table mechanic is for and how difficult some aspects of a pool table
are to deal with .I am kinda what you would call a full line technician and
work on big screen tvs ,lcd, plasma and dlp .....everyday .I have a associates
degree in electronic servicing . I have repaired everything from office equipment to appliances , car stereos and the list
goes on and on .My specialty is big screen tvs and video equipment .
I say all that to say this . I started of with the idea of taking my table
apart and redoing my 20plus year old rails on my GCIII .I took everything apart
which is about medium on a difficulty scale .I sent all my metal castings,legs,
corners and sides into to be powder coated .Then I got the idea some how that I could do my own rails and save a few bucks
Well ladies and gents
let me tell you I was going real strong , I even figured out the way to extend the subrails by reading Glen's post on it .I got the sub rails really nice and
glued down the rubber friday night . Then saturday night after work I went
home to cut the rail rubber .This is where everything went wrong for (mr. Icandoanything) me .I don't think my initial cut was bad .When I got my small
black n decker belt sander out this is where I messed up the pitch and angle
of the rail rubber .
I was sooooooooo discusted with myself it was awful .So the next day I
swallowed my pride and ego ,cleaned up my mess and called our local table
guy who is one of the best I've ever seen (Mark Gregory) and took him the
rails to re-do .He did not even laugh at me to bad and said I was close but
I would of never had the table playing right .
After calming down I realized with the time and money I wasted I could
have fixed 2 big screen tvs and had this job done and paid for by a pro .
I love to tackle new challenges and I can do some pretty cool stuff that
alot of people can't do .However the only way I would ever attempt to
do rails or cut the rail rubber again would be if I was trained to do so and
worked with a master table mechanic and knew the right way to do it .
Glen(Real King Cobra ) gave me alot of insight and he is comming out with
a DVD intended for people who do this for a living .He is such a cool guy he
even offered for me to bring my rails to him during the Derby city and he
would do them for me .
Guys I just want to stress again these table guys are worth what we
pay them and then some . I aint no dummy and it kicked my ass so I
will stick to tvs and such and let the pro's do the table .
Let me start by saying I am writting this so that people will understand
what a table mechanic is for and how difficult some aspects of a pool table
are to deal with .I am kinda what you would call a full line technician and
work on big screen tvs ,lcd, plasma and dlp .....everyday .I have a associates
degree in electronic servicing . I have repaired everything from office equipment to appliances , car stereos and the list
goes on and on .My specialty is big screen tvs and video equipment .
I say all that to say this . I started of with the idea of taking my table
apart and redoing my 20plus year old rails on my GCIII .I took everything apart
which is about medium on a difficulty scale .I sent all my metal castings,legs,
corners and sides into to be powder coated .Then I got the idea some how that I could do my own rails and save a few bucks
Well ladies and gentslet me tell you I was going real strong , I even figured out the way to extend the subrails by reading Glen's post on it .I got the sub rails really nice and
glued down the rubber friday night . Then saturday night after work I went
home to cut the rail rubber .This is where everything went wrong for (mr. Icandoanything) me .I don't think my initial cut was bad .When I got my small
black n decker belt sander out this is where I messed up the pitch and angle
of the rail rubber .
I was sooooooooo discusted with myself it was awful .So the next day I
swallowed my pride and ego ,cleaned up my mess and called our local table
guy who is one of the best I've ever seen (Mark Gregory) and took him the
rails to re-do .He did not even laugh at me to bad and said I was close but
I would of never had the table playing right .
After calming down I realized with the time and money I wasted I could
have fixed 2 big screen tvs and had this job done and paid for by a pro .
I love to tackle new challenges and I can do some pretty cool stuff that
alot of people can't do .However the only way I would ever attempt to
do rails or cut the rail rubber again would be if I was trained to do so and
worked with a master table mechanic and knew the right way to do it .
Glen(Real King Cobra ) gave me alot of insight and he is comming out with
a DVD intended for people who do this for a living .He is such a cool guy he
even offered for me to bring my rails to him during the Derby city and he
would do them for me .
Guys I just want to stress again these table guys are worth what we
pay them and then some . I aint no dummy and it kicked my ass so I
will stick to tvs and such and let the pro's do the table .
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