For all you would-be-flamers!

realkingcobra said:
I wasn't going to say any more to you Russ, but your post begs me to do so. Let me tell you something buddy, if there isn't more people out here like myself, then there's no hope for my industry getting any better. Over the years, pool table manufactures have gotten better, cloth manufactures have gotten better, cue makers have gotten better, cue tips are better, EVERY THING'S better in the billiards industry...EXCEPT the mechanic's trade!!!! And do YOU know WHO I blame????...The billiards industry!!! ALL the table and cloth manufactures have been so busy promoting "OUR" product is the "Best" that they've forgotten the fact that the "LAST" person to touch "THEIR PRODUCT" is a mechanic for the most part! THIS GC4 WAS set up by a Brunswick Certified mechanic, THEN recovered 2 1/2 years later by "ANOTHER" mechanic, and yet...nothing was done to correct the original problem in the first place, the slates were BAD! I'm not saying this is a black eye for Brunswick, hell it's happened to Diamond as well as Olhausen at different times, my COMPLAINT...is that it was PASSED OVER, maybe because the table was sold for $7,200 to a retirement center, and they're nothing but OLD people, but...I don't give a damn, it was wrong then, and it was wrong the second time the table was worked on, and I would be no better if I passed on it as well. But you know what Russ....I'm NOT passing, that's NOT my job, my job is to FIX the problem, and NOT hide it under the carpet as you'd like to wish!! I DID call Brunswick to inform them of the problem, and Kimberly was very representative of Brunswick, and they've sent a new slate to replace this one, I give 5 stars to Brunswick for standing behind their product, but give an F- for the distributorship that represented Brunswick so badly, and I'm not going to stop bringing attention to the problems in my industry just to please YOU, or anyone LIKE you! As I've said before, if you don't like what I post, don't read it, as you DO have that choice, and that's a better choice than the retirement center had, when for the last 5 years their complaints fell on deaf ears, even after sending letters of complaints to the original seller of the GC4.

You can stick this crowned from side to side and end to end slate where the sun don't shine Russ as far as I'm concerned about YOUR opinion about what I post. I can only wonder how you'd have felt had this slate been installed on YOUR pool table!!!

Glen
Click to expand...

The machanics around here should be shot and driven out of town. In the town of San Antonio with 1.7 million people, there si not one decent table in the whole city.

A guy owns AAA billiard Supply named Louis and does most of the work around here and is absolutely the worst I've seen in 40 years. {Yes I hope he reads this or gets tole as he can't hear it enough.} I dtest people who take no pride in their work.
 
Rkc

I'm sorry I missed your trip through Tucson. I heard ya worked on one of my friends tables, putting new cloth on it. He, George, says you did a fantastic job.
Last time I spoke to Brian at Diamond Billiards, he said when ya came through you would show me how to use a high speed polisher to bring back that "like new shine" to my Diamond Pro. Send me a PM next time ya will be traveling through and maybe we can get together or you can just tell me how to do it myself.
By the way, my table is playing great and everyone that has played on it has nothing but good things to say.:thumbup:
 
Bigtruck said:
Don't take this the wrong way because I didn't, but around truckers if you call someone a "good buddy" it's calling them a Fag. FYI.

I'm pretty sure that's not what you meant.

Ray
Click to expand...

Wow !!! And I thought a fag was a cigarette!!!

You guessed right, I'm not a truck driver and don't hang around any.

I take back the "good buddy" comment and will try to never use it again.

Thanks for the heads up!

Oh shit....... Does "heads up' mean anything??

If it does, I take that back also....:rolleyes:
 
tucson9ball said:
I'm sorry I missed your trip through Tucson. I heard ya worked on one of my friends tables, putting new cloth on it. He, George, says you did a fantastic job.
Last time I spoke to Brian at Diamond Billiards, he said when ya came through you would show me how to use a high speed polisher to bring back that "like new shine" to my Diamond Pro. Send me a PM next time ya will be traveling through and maybe we can get together or you can just tell me how to do it myself.
By the way, my table is playing great and everyone that has played on it has nothing but good things to say.:thumbup:
Click to expand...
I'll be back in the Tucson area again in about 3 weeks or so to finish up the GC4 at the retirement center, I'll show you how to do that when I come back through:D

Glen
 
tucson9ball said:
Last time I spoke to Brian at Diamond Billiards, he said when ya came through you would show me how to use a high speed polisher to bring back that "like new shine" to my Diamond Pro. Send me a PM next time ya will be traveling through and maybe we can get together or you can just tell me how to do it myself.
Click to expand...

I can tell you how to do it, and have FUN doing it.

First off, you go to the store and buy 3 bottles of wine. Then you hit the jacuzzi for an hr or so, then finish off the wine. Then have the Wife go get dressed...into a long wool skirt.

Then..............
 
Looks like top quality work to me. I love how clean the pockets look.

I have had 4 mechanics in my home in 9 years and it has been painful to say the least. The last person to do my GC II did a very nice job and I am happy with his work. It has been almost 1 year and some minor issues have popped up.

Glen I have a couple of questions:

Do you get to the chicago area?
Do you work on 6 x 12 snooker tables?

PM me if you can!

Thanks,

Mike
 
tksix said:
Looks like top quality work to me. I love how clean the pockets look.

I have had 4 mechanics in my home in 9 years and it has been painful to say the least. The last person to do my GC II did a very nice job and I am happy with his work. It has been almost 1 year and some minor issues have popped up.

Glen I have a couple of questions:

Do you get to the chicago area?
Do you work on 6 x 12 snooker tables?

PM me if you can!

Thanks,

Mike
Click to expand...

To answer your questions, yes and yes, what else?

Glen
 
Currently releveling is all that is needed. The cloth on both is a little over a year old.

If you have other work in the area and need some filler................please let me know.

Mike
 
Glen,
Please tell us guy's on the west coast we'll see you before you see another sunset in Arizona! Maybe? Rich
 
ironman said:
The machanics around here should be shot and driven out of town. In the town of San Antonio with 1.7 million people, there si not one decent table in the whole city.

A guy owns AAA billiard Supply named Louis and does most of the work around here and is absolutely the worst I've seen in 40 years. {Yes I hope he reads this or gets tole as he can't hear it enough.} I dtest people who take no pride in their work.
Click to expand...


is he from Vegas??? my biz partner blows 10 dimes on some B-wick box its a 9' table and you cant hit 3 cushions back and forth going the long way-and yes it had 860 on it, how bad is that??? you get about 2.5 at the most, it is 100% unplayable-even if you dont play.
 
Puttnutt24 said:
Glen,
Please tell us guy's on the west coast we'll see you before you see another sunset in Arizona! Maybe? Rich
Click to expand...
Be seeing you next week Rich, just got into Vegas tonight, heading out first thing in the morning....got delayed a little in ARIZONA...lol, I'll tell you about it sometime, give you a hint...it has a little something to do with DOT, log book, medical card, jail, a Judge, impound, and a ***** for a DOT officer in his 20's:mad: My truck and trailer together weigh under 26,000lbs, BUT...I guess if your delivering pool tables ACROSS state lines, one needs a log book, and a medical card to PROCEED!!!...or do NOT pass GO, do NOT collect $200, BUT...reach DEEEEEEEEEP in your pocket....and PLAY the GAME!!!!

Glen
 
realkingcobra said:
Be seeing you next week Rich, just got into Vegas tonight, heading out first thing in the morning....got delayed a little in ARIZONA...lol, I'll tell you about it sometime, give you a hint...it has a little something to do with DOT, log book, medical card, jail, a Judge, impound, and a ***** for a DOT officer in his 20's:mad: My truck and trailer together weigh under 26,000lbs, BUT...I guess if your delivering pool tables ACROSS state lines, one needs a log book, and a medical card to PROCEED!!!...or do NOT pass GO, do NOT collect $200, BUT...reach DEEEEEEEEEP in your pocket....and PLAY the GAME!!!!

Glen
Click to expand...


WOW....that sucks some serious asssss........:mad:

Sorry to hear. Did they at least give you a reach around?? lol
 
just one of the things I have noted about you

Glen,

Just one of the things I have noted about you was ignoring all DOT regulations according to your posts. Your plans for your truck will put you further afoul of them also. While you are acting like a jackass on here you might consider that you also post enough info that anyone toting a grudge could burn you to the ground. When the DOT gets serious not only can the fines get mammoth, your truck will be flagged so that you are regularly called inside at the scales.

Regardless of what you consider yourself to be, you are a commercial trucker to the DOT. I spot violations just looking at your photographs. Before you bother with a shitty reply, I could have burned you many months ago if I was inclined. I or anyone that reads this forum can also destroy you in a courtroom as a witness if you ever so much as crack somebody's fingernail and get sued while you are working. You like making enemies and then you give them all the ammo they need to destroy you.

Hu


realkingcobra said:
Be seeing you next week Rich, just got into Vegas tonight, heading out first thing in the morning....got delayed a little in ARIZONA...lol, I'll tell you about it sometime, give you a hint...it has a little something to do with DOT, log book, medical card, jail, a Judge, impound, and a ***** for a DOT officer in his 20's:mad: My truck and trailer together weigh under 26,000lbs, BUT...I guess if your delivering pool tables ACROSS state lines, one needs a log book, and a medical card to PROCEED!!!...or do NOT pass GO, do NOT collect $200, BUT...reach DEEEEEEEEEP in your pocket....and PLAY the GAME!!!!

Glen
Click to expand...
 
ShootingArts said:
Glen,

Just one of the things I have noted about you was ignoring all DOT regulations according to your posts. Your plans for your truck will put you further afoul of them also. While you are acting like a jackass on here you might consider that you also post enough info that anyone toting a grudge could burn you to the ground. When the DOT gets serious not only can the fines get mammoth, your truck will be flagged so that you are regularly called inside at the scales.

Regardless of what you consider yourself to be, you are a commercial trucker to the DOT. I spot violations just looking at your photographs. Before you bother with a shitty reply, I could have burned you many months ago if I was inclined. I or anyone that reads this forum can also destroy you in a courtroom as a witness if you ever so much as crack somebody's fingernail and get sued while you are working. You like making enemies and then you give them all the ammo they need to destroy you.

Hu
Click to expand...
Hu, first time in 7 years, and a half million miles I've ever been stopped, so now I'll carry a log book and have a medical card...no big deal, YOU want to stop me, bring it on. Don't care for you much anyway, and life goes on;) it's all part of the game!

Glen

PS, Hu, my truck and trailer are both legal, DOT checked them both out and found no short comings, so there....buddy!
 
Last edited:
Legal Log Book?

Glen,

Your truck isn't legal in any picture you have ever posted. I have owned over a dozen trucks from one-ton to eighteen wheelers and everything in between and I know better. Depends on the mood the inspector is in, you got off light. Read the regulations . . . . . Buddy

As for the log book being no big deal, it isn't as long as you plan to cheat it. A legal log book totally changes the way you operate, at least according to the claims you constantly make on here. Either you are a total phony or a legal log book makes a huge difference. Read the regulations . . . . . Buddy

I don't care much for you either. I read your posts and rantings purely for entertainment. You claim to be an independent businessman, that has Diamond buy his trucks, pay his insurance, and cover his major repairs. I have been an independent businessman most of the time since 1970 and never had any other business do any of these things . . . . . . Buddy

I note your conceit thinking another mechanic couldn't possibly figure out the Diamond leveling system without help. I laughed out loud. The uses of inclined planes have been known since ancient times and they are still often used to level heavy machinery to far tighter standards than a pool table. I suspect that Diamond came up with the system from seeing it used or seeing the levelers in a supply catalog. Nothing novel . . . . . Buddy


You do a decent job at something that isn't particularly challenging and it gives you a hugely overinflated ego . . . . . . Buddy

I can't tell you how little it means to me that we are buddies now, . . . Buddy

Actually I'm not that kind of a guy. Sorry Buddy!

Hu



realkingcobra said:
Hu, first time in 7 years, and a half million miles I've ever been stopped, so now I'll carry a log book and have a medical card...no big deal, YOU want to stop me, bring it on. Don't care for you much anyway, and life goes on;) it's all part of the game!

Glen

PS, Hu, my truck and trailer are both legal, DOT checked them both out and found no short comings, so there....buddy!
Click to expand...
 
realkingcobra said:
This table was one heck of a project, but well worth it when it was finished, John Leitch now has another great Brunswick Centennial 9ft to play on in his house, but it's NOT a Diamond, so I don't know how I managed to get this table in the condition it's in, because I ONLY know how to work on Diamonds!!!:rolleyes:

Glen
Click to expand...

I'd give my left nut for that table! :smile:
 
jay helfert said:
I'd give my left nut for that table! :smile:
Click to expand...

It really is something else....I'll be taking some photos this week. I'm eager to see it after it's all been put together. AND, I'll test the playability as well:smile:

It's outfitted with new Artemis rubber....and I'm hearing it plays as good as any table, anywhere.

That Glen sure knows what he's doing!!

The light is going to be something special as well....John's going all out on it. With inlaid leather, and a few other things.

I'll post them ASAP...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top