Differance in rubber

[sgo]

Hi all. I am looking to redo my rails and have a few questions. I've been out of the game lately with 2 kids under 4 and stuff but I recently came accross a table someone just wanted out of their basement. It had sat unassembled for yearsand they just wanted it gone so I got the table for free.:grin: I got new felt ( velocity pro) and did the slate... put on the rails with the old felt. I wasn't sure how to tell if the rails were any good so that was my solution. The rails are no good.

I've gone thru your forums and found a lot of great info. But I still wonder what is the differance in a set of rails from the low end to high end if they are 100% gum rubber. My table has k-66 ( 1 & 3/16" wide) and I've found prices from $50 to a $200.

I also wonder if I need to raise my rail height what could I do? I think I'm about an 1/8 " too low. My slate to rail height is 1 & 5/16 with 2 & 1/4 balls ( to the best of my eye with a standard tape measurer).

The pockets are 4& 7/8 front and 4 & 1/2 back, I would like to shim them. The end caps are 1/8" and I didn't think it would be good to double them up, I was thinking of just gluing and stapling some 1/8" luan to the subrail to get them another 1/4" tighter.

Sorry for the rambling post......

Thanks for any help!!
Scott

 

[sgo]

And I'm not sure what is staining my felt. The wife swears there were no kids playing on it and nothing was spilled. You can actually feel some roughness whare it is stained.

Could it be anything other than something being spilled??

 

[Donny Wessels]

And I'm not sure what is staining my felt. The wife swears there were no kids playing on it and nothing was spilled. You can actually feel some roughness whare it is stained.

Could it be anything other than something being spilled??

call up Rick at poolfelt.com and get the cheapiest ones you can get. the table isn't worth investing in.

 

[sgo]

Thanks, that's probably the route I'm going to go. This table is by no means a showpiece.

The only reason I got it was for practice reasons, I'm not concerned with how it looks. But I do want it to play good.I was not sure how much differance there would be in how the low end rails play.

So I've got good level slate, new felt and soon to be new rails....I'm happy!