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beav99_4life

beav99_4life

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I'm posting this for my buddy. He is getting a great deal on a 10x5 snooker table in amazing condition. He was wondering if its possible to convert it to a normal playing table. We talked to one of our friends who is a table mechanic and he said it wouldnt be a problem, just needed to change the rails and open the pockets up a little. Is this correct, or are we missing some pertinent information? Thank you very much for any help or advice you can give.
 
Seems a tragedy to murder a 10 ft snooker table.. not that many left. How about he buys it, sells it for a nice lil profit and buys an 8 or 9 ft table?
 
The point of the cushions is at 1 5/16" so the rails are going to have to have the rubber striped off and the rails re-beveled and replace the rubber. If your mechanic thinks cutting slate is easy, he has another thing coming. Does he have the right tools to cut the pockets on the rails? Converting this table to a pool table is kind of like replacing your Volkswagen engine with a Ford 460 CID engine, it's been done...a few times before.

Glen

Buy it, sell it, buy a 9ft.
 
realkingcobra said:
The point of the cushions is at 1 5/16" so the rails are going to have to have the rubber striped off and the rails re-beveled and replace the rubber. If your mechanic thinks cutting slate is easy, he has another thing coming. Does he have the right tools to cut the pockets on the rails? Converting this table to a pool table is kind of like replacing your Volkswagen engine with a Ford 460 CID engine, it's been done...a few times before.

Glen

Buy it, sell it, buy a 9ft.
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Great minds think alike! I don't know squat and he's a bona-fide expert but still....... :D:rolleyes: :cool: but I wouldn't have EVER used a 460 Ford in an analogy.. a big block Chevy maybe, maybe a Hemi... well wait the use of the vastly inferior Ford in this analogy makes the original idea of changing a great old 10 ft snooker table into a pool table even more obviously a bad idea. :rolleyes:
 
JimS said:
Great minds think alike! I don't know squat and he's a bona-fide expert but still....... :D:rolleyes: :cool: but I wouldn't have EVER used a 460 Ford in an analogy.. a big block Chevy maybe, maybe a Hemi... well wait the use of the vastly inferior Ford in this analogy makes the original idea of changing a great old 10 ft snooker table into a pool table even more obviously a bad idea. :rolleyes:
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lmao, you're catching on to my scarcasum....hehe:D
 
The one thought that always goes through my mind every-time I read threads like this one, is "The hardest jobs in the world, are made easy by those who don't have to do them"...I'll say this again for everyone on here that reads this post....IN ORDER to change a true 5 x 10 snooker table into a 5 x 10 pool table, you have to re-cut the pocket openings...very, very hard to do, then...the rails won't work just by re-cutting the pocket openings to that of a pocket pool opening, especially if the corner pockets have pocket irons....they're to small...it won't work. Then the bevel of the rails have to be changed in order to raise the point of the cushion up to 1 7/16" as a snooker table is set at 1 5/16" for playing snooker, if you don't change the height of the cushions...your 2 1/4" balls are going to be playing like a pinball machine off the rails, and hoping.

I don't know of any mechanic that would take on this project that wouldn't charge you the price of a very good quality used 9ft table like a Diamond or something to do this task...including me! At $50.00 an hour "cheap" I'd be into you for somewhere around 60 hours labor...and you'd still have to ship me the table and pay to return it, as well as set it up and recover it...so, overall.....some where between $4000 to $5000 dollars....oh, I forgot to even ask...what kind of snooker table is this...??...the price could go up from here depending on what you're looking to buy manufacture wise, as I wouldn't touch it unless it's not a quality table to begin with!

Glen
 
beav99_4life said:
If i remember correctly, he said its a mint condition Gold Crown snooker table.
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Can't use the corner castings as they're to small in the mouth opening to match up with back of the pocket opening needed for pocket pool. Compare them to any Gold crown corner pocket castings for size.

Glen
 
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