Anyone know where I can beg, borrow or buy some slates for an 8" Brunswick Monticello home pool table? I've been told these slates are over sized at 33" x 53" x 1". I need the center slate because it is broken all the way across a long diagonal, and the break is not clean, it is on a sharp 60-30 degree angle rather than a square 90 degree break angle.
One end slate also has a break across a corner which could use replacing also.
I've had a look at Glenn's Soup Can method of putting broken slate back together. Maybe I can do it, maybe not.
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=182188&highlight=soup+cans
I really got taken for a ride on this table by a Good Christian Lady who failed to reveal the "crack" before I drove a hundred miles to view the table, then when I saw a little something underneath the table she assured me there was no break, just a little crack that had been professionally repaired years ago. Later, when my mover discovered a full length diagonal break across the center slate, and a corner break on an outside slate, she went apoplectic angry with me when I asked for a refund, even after offering her $50 for her 'trouble' of taking the table off the market for a week. So much for Good Christian Honesty.
... but I was a sucker, got ahead of myself, should have taken pro advice before the money changed hands instead of after, stupid me, but I will not let this bad taste linger, that poor hate-filled angry lady has to live with herself, as does her husband and children, and I don't - which is the worst possible outcome I could wish on her and her poor silent long-suffering family.
I want to simply make some effort to repair the table properly so I can offer it for sale or trade and maybe somehow reduce my loss.
I am in North Texas, just outside Paris, about 95 miles northeast of Dallas.
One end slate also has a break across a corner which could use replacing also.
I've had a look at Glenn's Soup Can method of putting broken slate back together. Maybe I can do it, maybe not.
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=182188&highlight=soup+cans
I really got taken for a ride on this table by a Good Christian Lady who failed to reveal the "crack" before I drove a hundred miles to view the table, then when I saw a little something underneath the table she assured me there was no break, just a little crack that had been professionally repaired years ago. Later, when my mover discovered a full length diagonal break across the center slate, and a corner break on an outside slate, she went apoplectic angry with me when I asked for a refund, even after offering her $50 for her 'trouble' of taking the table off the market for a week. So much for Good Christian Honesty.
... but I was a sucker, got ahead of myself, should have taken pro advice before the money changed hands instead of after, stupid me, but I will not let this bad taste linger, that poor hate-filled angry lady has to live with herself, as does her husband and children, and I don't - which is the worst possible outcome I could wish on her and her poor silent long-suffering family.
I want to simply make some effort to repair the table properly so I can offer it for sale or trade and maybe somehow reduce my loss.
I am in North Texas, just outside Paris, about 95 miles northeast of Dallas.
Any chance of taking a center slate from a 9 footer and "whittling" it down a bit? Slate is fairly soft, as stone goes, and it may be an option for you, using the original slate as a template. Or am I being naïve? 
