Table not level - "cupping" effect

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MatthewWBrown

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I just purchased a used Olhausen Eclipse 8ft 3 PC wood backed slate table and had a professional install it today in my basement on carpet with padding. The professional has over 15 years experience and good references. After he was done today, I noticed that when I hit a ball towards any end pocket from the other end of the table that if the ball is hit slowly it tends to finish/drift towards the middle of the table (away from each pocket). This true for all 4 end pockets.

Does anyone know what can cause this? Is this probably an install issue? If so, what might cause this? What else could it be?
 
I had the same thing happen to my Gold Crown. I set it up myself and apparently I did not use enough shims or did not put shims in the proper areas. After about 6 months the ball would roll away from the rail on a long slow roll on both sides of table. I disassembled table and added shims to the center of the slates to take care of problem. Been good for over a year now.
 
Bad level job. Shimmed outside but not center of slate for support were needed.

Level frame again then level slate.

Assuming new table not a poorly stored old one..
 
level issue for Olhausen

It is possible that the screws in the slates that are in the middle of the table are tightened down too much and are causing the slates to "cup" as you described. If you can have the cloth removed, loosen the screws some and maybe even shim under the middle section of the seams, that might fix your problem.
 
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