Setting Up Table - Have Some Questions

bludytiger

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I am setting up my table right now and have a few questions. First of all, the table is going to be semi temporary. I want to get a much nicer table, but this one is going to have to do for a couple years.

What is a good height for the playing surface? BCA regulations say 29 1/4" - 31". That's a fairly large variation of size in my opinion. Is there a more common height? My legs can be adjusted somewhat and the time to do it would be now while I am centering the bed of the table in the room.

I will be using used cloth. I have a used cloth from a 12' snooker table, so it will easily be enough for my 9' table. When I was reading some guides on putting tables together, they say to make sure to have the cloth brand logo facing up. Is this that important? or are both sides the same? I would like to use the back side of the cloth as it appears to be much cleaner.
 
Well it looks like the lowest this table will go is 32 3/4". So I guess that means the first question doesn't really matter.
 
Used cloth

Whether or not you can flip the cloth and have a decent playing surface depends largely on the type of cloth. If it's any Simonis, I would say no. The backside is not designed to be playable. If it is Championship Tour Edition 3030, then the answer is yes-the backside is advertised to be true as well. If it came from a 6x12 in Canada, it may be a woolen cloth (maybe 'West of England' or similar) and it probably can be reversed. You mention a 'logo', do you know what brand of cloth it is?
 
The cloth logo says Hainsworth Toptable Made in England.

And the table is a 9 x 4 1/2 pool table. Cloth is from a 12 x 6 snooker of same make.
 
bludytiger said:
The cloth logo says Hainsworth Toptable Made in England.

And the table is a 9 x 4 1/2 pool table. Cloth is from a 12 x 6 snooker of same make.
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Cloth designed for playing snooker, will not hold up on a pool table playing 9B or any other hard breaking game. Just thought you might want to think about that first.
 
The table is a Dufferin table. Nothing too special about it. As I said, it's just temporary. I may just put it up for sale... I like it less and less every day.
 
The dilemma I was facing with the cloth is that I got it with the snooker table for free. However, there is a cigarette burn hole in the cloth, so it is no longer good for the snooker table, but it should still work on my pool table. Even if it's not the best, I really don't care right now. If I can get the table set up with the cloth, I can at least play it a bit and put it for sale.

The snooker table has some dings in it, and even a couple chunks out of the slate and I don't know if it would even sell. I don't want the thing. The only reason I got it is because I was told it was the same table I already had and I was going to make one good table out of the two, but when it was delivered, I quickly realized it was a 12 foot table that I can't use, and now am stuck with...
 
Top Table is a napped and directional snooker cloth. Generally speaking cloth can't be "flipped" and have the same playing characteristics as the actual top (finished) side of the cloth. This isn't to say you can't flip the cloth but don't expect much in performance or precision. The exception I know of is Simonis 300.
 
bludytiger said:
What is a good height for the playing surface? BCA regulations say 29 1/4" - 31". That's a fairly large variation of size in my opinion. Is there a more common height?
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The BCA specs are given as a range because not all floors are level. (None of them are). To compensate for that, one end of the playing surface will be higher than the other off the floor.
 
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