I've been building a pool table. I found this place while setting out to answer a few questions about it. Thanks for your help on that and all of the time that you have spent putting answers on here to questions you probably find mundane and trivial. It's helped me a bunch.
I think for the most part, the work I have done on it is satisfactory from a woodworkers standpoint, but I'm certainly no table mech. I started when my buddy's table got wet in a flood. I needed a table so I figured I would just recycle his slate and build my own table around it. I got it real cheap. Later I found some rails that a friend had that he had ordered and they showed up in the wrong color stain. The factory sent replacements and after he pointed out the other minor flaws in the wood and finish, they decided they didn't want them back. I got them real cheap, too.
I had the table covered last night and banged some balls around and the rails were giving kind of a thud and the balls were coming off at a bigger angle than is normal. Just by judging where they contact the ball, I can tell they are too high, I'd say by probably 1/16-3/32". I don't know what style you would call them, they accept #6 irons, if that tells you anything and they were made by Kasson, or whoever makes kasson. The rubber and facings were on them when I got them and were attached quite securely. I had to re-drill the anchors on the undersides, but I think that is irrelevant. The anchors are all got properly countersunk.
I wasn't watching when the guy put them on there, it's possible the felt is just improperly trimmed on them or maybe bunched up just enough to make them higher. I think the right thing to do is take them off and check them out. I'm sure theres a cheat. It would suck to come this far and then cheat, but just in case, what's the cheat? Shim up the back of the rails? I'm pretty sure I want to avoid that. I hope its just the felt. I sure don't want to take off any wood.
If and when I take them off, I'd like to make sure I get them back on right. Can you give me a rough procedure to follow to put them back on square and true. I couldn't find that info in the archives. It seems like it could be a bear if I just set out by trial and error.
Thanks again for all your help.
I think for the most part, the work I have done on it is satisfactory from a woodworkers standpoint, but I'm certainly no table mech. I started when my buddy's table got wet in a flood. I needed a table so I figured I would just recycle his slate and build my own table around it. I got it real cheap. Later I found some rails that a friend had that he had ordered and they showed up in the wrong color stain. The factory sent replacements and after he pointed out the other minor flaws in the wood and finish, they decided they didn't want them back. I got them real cheap, too.
I had the table covered last night and banged some balls around and the rails were giving kind of a thud and the balls were coming off at a bigger angle than is normal. Just by judging where they contact the ball, I can tell they are too high, I'd say by probably 1/16-3/32". I don't know what style you would call them, they accept #6 irons, if that tells you anything and they were made by Kasson, or whoever makes kasson. The rubber and facings were on them when I got them and were attached quite securely. I had to re-drill the anchors on the undersides, but I think that is irrelevant. The anchors are all got properly countersunk.
I wasn't watching when the guy put them on there, it's possible the felt is just improperly trimmed on them or maybe bunched up just enough to make them higher. I think the right thing to do is take them off and check them out. I'm sure theres a cheat. It would suck to come this far and then cheat, but just in case, what's the cheat? Shim up the back of the rails? I'm pretty sure I want to avoid that. I hope its just the felt. I sure don't want to take off any wood.
If and when I take them off, I'd like to make sure I get them back on right. Can you give me a rough procedure to follow to put them back on square and true. I couldn't find that info in the archives. It seems like it could be a bear if I just set out by trial and error.
Thanks again for all your help.