Moving Table, Question about my 'new' slate

taprackgo

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Hello,

As i posted a couple weeks ago, I'm going to be moving my table to a new house. Once there, I plan to have a pro come and set it back up.

When pulling off the cloth, I notice that there's a large spot at one of the seams with the slate that seems to be a patch job. For reference, I bought this table brand new from Diamond directly a few years ago. Is this normal procedure? I'm not naive that they will try to salvage an expensive slate piece, but I guess I'm surprised I received this on a new table.

This also answers the question I posted here several years ago regarding balls rolling funny and my installer never coming back to correct the issue.

Just curious on the pros' thoughts on this.

Thank you,
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Man that's a rough job.
Looks like it's never been sanded off
Also the common practice of using the slate to mix the bondo rather than a mixing board is not a good look.
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That's a pretty bad chip, but if properly dealt with, shouldn't cause any issues. Be very careful taking the slates apart, score the seam with a utility knife to help break the bondo. Whoever set that up was obviously in a hurry, and didn't spend much time getting things smoothed out.
 
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