RKC delivered big time!

Glen,
Fantastic job, as usual. Alway love seeing pictures of your work. Hope all is well.
OP, now you can never move or change tables. Steve
 
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You can see how far the frame had sagged by how much the gap is between the L channel and the frame, a good 3/4" inch.
 
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Nicely designed rails made out of Hemlock, great soft wood, not great for building rails though. So, I had to remove all the anchor nuts, plug all the holes, remove all the wood in that area in the bottom of the rails, then replace what I removed with Poplar.
 
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The rails were actually to thick at 1 7/8" to begin with, they were even higher than the pocket castings, so I made a sled to place them in and ran them through my thickness planner to get them to the correct thickness of 1 23/32"s, which is just perfect to not have a step down from the laminate to the top of the sub rail of more than the thickness of the Simonis cloth being installed.
 
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I also converted the rails from a 3 bolt pattern to a 5 bolt patter to give the rails a lot more holding strength when being bolted down.
 
And, like I said, this table design has way to many problem in its design to work on another one that's for sure.
 
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Every once and awhile a blind squirrel finds a nut'
The owner of the table got very lucky to have Glenn address the issues of the table, I can tell the OP took great care of the table and waited for the right guy to come work on it.
It looks like the table had about one or so recovery tally on the rails( the original cloth install was probably done with tacks , a table that old on its third recover tells us that the table has not been thru the beatings of hack recover jobs.




Enjoy OP, you've got 1 of a kind table'

Rob.M
 
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I love great stories and I hate the negative, RELIVE A GREAT ONE TODAY.

poolpro2 said:
I called Glen out a while ago, we had a deal that had gone off track. Well he delivered, big time.

I don't think there are many mechanics that would do the work he did.

He took what we found out to be a bit of a "frankenstein" and made it into what I believe to be truly a world class table.

It started out as a Saunier-Whilhem from Pennsylvania. (Kind of a Gold Crown knock-off with a lesser frame.)

I know what he did, but can't really explain the technical stuff properly. I will give a layman's summary though.

He rebuilt the rails, replacing a lot of wood, and extending the subrails so I have true 4 1/2" pockets (no shims). He also added a couple of bolts to each, I have 5 per rail (9" inch centers, View attachment 397985

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Then he added a bunch of angle iron around the frame so there is no chance of sag.

He made my feet adjustable, added his leveling system, and fastened the 3 piece slate together.

Also, I have shallow shelves, so he adjusted the angle of the pockets so they play deeper.

All in all, I want to say it was worth the wait, the experience was comparable to a root canal. Now that it is over though - the table is AWESOME!

Thank you Glen (and Rich), and feel free to correct any of the specifics I may of miss stated.

Pictures don't do it justice and hopefully I can get all of them in.
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When things turn negative in your life, find the positive things, just like on AZ, when the threads are going negative,

FIND A GREAT PERSON AND THEIR WORK, COMPLIMENT IT AND REPEAT!!

Thanks and have a great day.


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