Help Table questions

[Pete]

Hi all,

I had a question brought up to me yesterday about table size. The fellow I was playing with asked about the table we where playing on. I said it was a 9', but he thought it was smaller. He grabbed his tape measurer from his truck and proceeded to measure the table. The bed wasn't 4.5' * 9', it was like 4.2' * 8.5 or some thing like that.

So when I went home I thought about it, and wasn't sure about the size of tables any more. So how do you measure a table, is it the playing surface, or the out side of the rails, or the outside of the frame?

The Frame makes some sense thinking that the min size of a room (for a 9') is 19' * 14.5'. But right now I'm very confused. SO any help here would be great…

Thanks Guys & Gals,

Pete

 

[Black-Balled]

the playing surface of a 9' table is 50x100"

Don't ask why they call it a 9' (coz we don't know!).

 

[ndakotan]

Mathematically Speaking

Hi all,

I had a question brought up to me yesterday about table size. The fellow I was playing with asked about the table we where playing on. I said it was a 9', but he thought it was smaller. He grabbed his tape measurer from his truck and proceeded to measure the table. The bed wasn't 4.5' * 9', it was like 4.2' * 8.5 or some thing like that.

So when I went home I thought about it, and wasn't sure about the size of tables any more. So how do you measure a table, is it the playing surface, or the out side of the rails, or the outside of the frame?

The Frame makes some sense thinking that the min size of a room (for a 9') is 19' * 14.5'. But right now I'm very confused. SO any help here would be great…

Thanks Guys & Gals,

Pete

I have done a lot of thinking on this and here is what I've come up with:

The short dimension of the table is 4.5 feet from the back of rail to back of rail. Of that, approximately 2 inches on each rail is subtracted off to get 50 inch playing surface (54 inches - 4 inches = 50 inches).

The long dimension of a table cannot be figured this way. You have to double the playing surface of the short dimension to get 100 inches, but you are not doubling the dimensions of the rail (the 2 inches stays constant for each rail). If you did double the thickness of the rails, you would get 2 inches*2 rails*2, which equals 8 added to 100 equals 108 (9 feet).

Technically the end rail diamonds should have been moved out approximately 5 inches to make the diamond system work, I don't know how this affects the systems. I am posting a question on how the diamonds work at the corners today.

 

[ndakotan]

Hi all,

I had a question brought up to me yesterday about table size. The fellow I was playing with asked about the table we where playing on. I said it was a 9', but he thought it was smaller. He grabbed his tape measurer from his truck and proceeded to measure the table. The bed wasn't 4.5' * 9', it was like 4.2' * 8.5 or some thing like that.

So when I went home I thought about it, and wasn't sure about the size of tables any more. So how do you measure a table, is it the playing surface, or the out side of the rails, or the outside of the frame?

The Frame makes some sense thinking that the min size of a room (for a 9') is 19' * 14.5'. But right now I'm very confused. SO any help here would be great…

Thanks Guys & Gals,

Pete

To follow up on room size, they add 5 feet to each rail based upon the back of rail dimensions of the table. This gives you enough room to short-stroke a 4'-10" stick since the CB will always be at least 2" away from this point. This should always give you 4 inches to stroke. On the short dimension it looks like they want you to give yourself a little more room, I'm assuming because there are more shots perpendicular to the rail on the short dimension. You don't have may perpendicular shots going the long way. Just a theory tho.

 

[Pete]

Thank you for the response…

Does any one know why it is measured that way 100"* 50"*? My first thought is with the rest of the table (the frame) it would need a room spaced a min of 19' * 14.5', but the bed that size it wouldn't leave much room for the frame.

Anyone???

 

[Black-Balled]

Thank you for the response…

Does any one know why it is measured that way 100"* 50"*? My first thought is with the rest of the table (the frame) it would need a room spaced a min of 19' * 14.5', but the bed that size it wouldn't leave much room for the frame.

Anyone???

What kind of room do you need for the frame? you only need cue length+ 4 or 5 " from inside edge of cushion to be able to execute a shot where the cb is on the rail. Framee size, per se, is not really relevant.