I use to have a Valley table parts catalog, I think you can still get one from Valley today. You can buy every part on and in a Valley table...no problem...you can even buy enough parts to assemble a Valley table...complete, But...like the auto industry...by the time you bought all the parts needed to build a table, it would be about half the cost...just going out and buying the Valley table new! Yes, Valley has the parts made themselves...but unless you're planning to buy in container loads...you're not going to get two seconds of conversation with the manufactures that make the parts for Valley, Great American, Dynamo, Global...or anyone else for that matter.
The only way you can make a coin-op table profitable from a builders stand point, is if you do what we did at Diamond, and that's make all your own parts and pieces. But then you have the same problem that is going on in the coin-op industry today...you'd have to sell your tables against the Diamond tables, as well as Valley/Dynamo and Shelty. If that were as easy as one thought it was, there would be an increase in coin-op manufactures, not a decrease:smile: And, if you're going to rely on bars to buy your tables, you'd better be able to come up with some sort of financing as most bar owners don't have the cash to lay out for new coin-op tables, and if they did...why your table vs a Diamond, in which the trend in buying is in full speed ahead:smile:
Glen
