GC 3 Rattles

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Is there anything I can do fully assembled to solidify my GC3? It is perfectly level and plays great but it has a serious rattle when you bang the rails or slate. The vibration is so much that the bridges sitting on each side rattle in their holders making it sound even worse. The metal ball holder at the head rattles in the wood too. As far as I can tell everything fastener wise is tight. It is sitting on commercial carpet. Sometimes you can even hear the thing rattling when shooting a ball hard into a pocket. It's been sitting here for ten years but was moved to the side when the carpet was replaced last fall and I don't recall it being so unstable with the old carpet. Shouldn't a 1200 pound monster make a "thud" when you hit the slate with your palm?

Thanks for any help with this,

JC
 
JC said:
Is there anything I can do fully assembled to solidify my GC3? It is perfectly level and plays great but it has a serious rattle when you bang the rails or slate. The vibration is so much that the bridges sitting on each side rattle in their holders making it sound even worse. The metal ball holder at the head rattles in the wood too. As far as I can tell everything fastener wise is tight. It is sitting on commercial carpet. Sometimes you can even hear the thing rattling when shooting a ball hard into a pocket. It's been sitting here for ten years but was moved to the side when the carpet was replaced last fall and I don't recall it being so unstable with the old carpet. Shouldn't a 1200 pound monster make a "thud" when you hit the slate with your palm?

Thanks for any help with this,

JC
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Look and see if the whole slate is sitting on shimms, instead of the frame...as in suspened up off the frame on the shimms.
 
realkingcobra said:
Look and see if the whole slate is sitting on shimms, instead of the frame...as in suspened up off the frame on the shimms.
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The center slate is totally suspended on shims as are the center ends of the end slates. At the ends of the table the slate is on shims but very thin as the frame is slightly low in the center. What would you suggest in this case? The funny thing is I didn't change the level much at all when I recovered it and put different rails on it. Just some slight tweaking but didn't add or subtract any shims and it didn't used to rattle like this to my recollection. One screw came loose at an end corner which I had to fix the hole but the rest was just a little tap of a shim here and a tightening of a screw there to bring it back to level after moving the table, installing the carpet underneath and replacing the rails and cloth. Would adding some shims help if I put them in various places just tight enough to dampen and bear some slate weight?
 
I'm not a mechanic (and RKC is dah man - always a big help sharing his knowledge!) but I had a similar problem on my GC3 and realized I left one of those bolts loose, the ones with the built on washer that hold the rails down to the slate. The washer was able to vibrate...any chance it could be that?
 
islandracer said:
I'm not a mechanic (and RKC is dah man - always a big help sharing his knowledge!) but I had a similar problem on my GC3 and realized I left one of those bolts loose, the ones with the built on washer that hold the rails down to the slate. The washer was able to vibrate...any chance it could be that?
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I will double check all the hardware,

Thanks

JC
 
I have a related (I think) issue:

GC4, chalk sitting on the rail... I lean on table- not near chalk- to shoot and the chalk slides off. Table in basement, on thin carpet over concrete floor.

I have never been belly-hooked...160lb with a few beers in me!
 
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