Good or bad to "float" the slate?

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fazman

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I have a 20 year old 8 foot Olhausen furniture table (golf table design). the installer is doing his best to get it level, but can only level it if he floats the slate....meaning he has to shim below most of the slate to compensate for what may be the frame sagging in the center of the table...the table is level except when shooting across the table at each end....the ball fades toward the center of the table when shooting across each end rail. Is there any other way to fix this other than floating the slate with a ton of shims? ...and what is the problem if any, with "floating the slate"?
Thanks for your help in advance.
 
One problem I have with my 8' Oly is my cats gets under it and paw out the shims.

I find the shims on the floor and don't know exactly where they came from so now I have uneven slate pieces.

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Jeff Livingston
 
zmfb23 said:
Im not a pro table mechanic or anything but i have put quite a few tables together and i had to shim the center piece of slate on my 9 foot table and it came out good. I didnt have much to shim though. How much is your table sagging?
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The mechanic thinks the table is sagging very little, but enough to cause the balls to slightly fade to the center when shooting side to side on each end of the table
 
zmfb23 said:
Actually the more i think about it im kinda wondering if ur slate might be bowed. I would ask the mechanic if hes sure its a sag in the frame or a bow in the slate just in case.
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I was wondering about a bow in the slate also...then I thought it would be the frame sagging in the middle since both end a of the table roll inward towed the center...so...I thought that it would be unlikely that slate at both ends of the table were bowed. Also, when the table was fully shimmed, it was level all the way around...
 
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