I've been doing some searching on this site regarding pocket width. I see that 4.5" is considered on the tight side and 5" is rather loose. I have a Gandy Big G table that has been redone about a year ago and so the question is, is there a way of shimming the pockets down to 4.5"? I placed two balls in the mouth of the corner pocket and there was an additional 1/4" of room. A little too wide. Prefer a tighter table at home so when I go to a pool room it gets easier to play.
The reason for all this is the other day I played in a pool hall and found I had to do a lot of adjusting of my game because the table was so much tighter than what I am used to. This took some potting percentage out of my game. This is a tech thread so I won't go into a lot of detail about my performance that night. Only trying to explain where I am coming from. The other table was also a Brunswick.
The restretch is probably self explanatory.The table I was on was fast. Never had a problem with this in NY but since I had the Gandy installed it seems to either have slowed down a lot or was never quite as fast as I would have liked. Cloth currently on the Gandy is Simonis 860. The difference was too much to compensate for and affected my game more than I am happy to admit.
So the questions are what are my options regarding the pocket size and the restretch? Redo the entire table? Or can this be done without it being a hack job.
Thank You in advance for your time. I am located in Apex NC in case there is a mechanic that is interested if this is something that can be remedied other than a total table redo. If it is a total redo then I will have to wait until the cloth is worn.
The reason for all this is the other day I played in a pool hall and found I had to do a lot of adjusting of my game because the table was so much tighter than what I am used to. This took some potting percentage out of my game. This is a tech thread so I won't go into a lot of detail about my performance that night. Only trying to explain where I am coming from. The other table was also a Brunswick.
The restretch is probably self explanatory.The table I was on was fast. Never had a problem with this in NY but since I had the Gandy installed it seems to either have slowed down a lot or was never quite as fast as I would have liked. Cloth currently on the Gandy is Simonis 860. The difference was too much to compensate for and affected my game more than I am happy to admit.
So the questions are what are my options regarding the pocket size and the restretch? Redo the entire table? Or can this be done without it being a hack job.
Thank You in advance for your time. I am located in Apex NC in case there is a mechanic that is interested if this is something that can be remedied other than a total table redo. If it is a total redo then I will have to wait until the cloth is worn.