How to fix mounting the slates on a Brunswick Century.

realkingcobra

realkingcobra

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This is Daniels Pro 8 Brunswick Century down in Tenn. When Brunswick designed the slate screws to mount by screwing them right straight into the core of the plywood frame, I have no idea what they were thinking because it won't hold the slates in place, because the plywood just splits when the slate screw is ran in, so I modified the frame with some 1" L channel mounted to the frame of the table with carriage bolts, that way I'd have something to hold the slate to. That also required drilling new slate screw holes, and as you can see by using a template to hold the drill bit in place, my holes where actually better centered than the factory drilled holes. Then I used 1/4"x20 machine screws to hold the slate down to the L channel so I could guarantee the slates wouldn't shift at a later date, even if they were super-glued together.

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very nice. question for you. if you knocked the original wood blocks, put the metal against the frame, could you have used the original slate screw holes?
 
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Was there any cross beams?Could you have drilled new holes into these? It is hard to tell with out seeing the under neath of the table. Good work , Glen
Ron
 
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What kind of bits, masonry or something else. More than a couple of sizes to countersink holes like that?
 
sdbilliards said:
very nice. question for you. if you knocked the original wood blocks, put the metal against the frame, could you have used the original slate screw holes?
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That's the bad thing about the design of this table, the slate screws didn't even go through the wooden blocks, they came down through the plywood frame the wooden blocks were mounted to, so they missed them all together. I didn't want to just use the wooden blocks to hold the slate screws because they'd split to easy, so I used them as a spacer for the new holes, or I'd run into the problem of trying to drill new holes right at the edges of the existing holes.

Glen
 
LCCS said:
Was there any cross beams?Could you have drilled new holes into these? It is hard to tell with out seeing the under neath of the table. Good work , Glen
Ron
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Cross beams would have put my screw holes into the playing surface area, and the cross beams are made from plywood as well.

Glen
 
I wish I'd have seen this thread before...lol
When I moved that Century up to Oklahoma last week,there were no hardware stores even remotely close by. I'm going to make up some for future use,since the odds are there will be another old underbuilt plywood based table coming up again somewhere...
This would definately help the frame flex from trying to level out the slate and solve the issues with bored out holes.
Thanks for the pics Glen:thumbup:
 
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