Tack strips revisited! UH OH!!!

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A Brunswick table with tack strips...straight from the factory??? That's an out right lie, but I suppose they only build ONE table that way, and it was just for you...right? You're stepping in it deep buddy!



Brunswick has NEVER built a table using tack strips, not from the factory...you're blowing smoke on that statement!!![/QUOTE]

This was an anonymous statement made by someone here a while back!LOL;)


I may have to go into witness protection program!!!

I knew i had worked on a couple tables back in the 80s at a bar and swore up and down they were tack strips but 20some years later, i could not be absolute certain they were factory. Then 5 years ago ran into another one in a home but had no camera. Today, found the 1968 manual for a bar box they had built using tack strips. They were the identical to the ones they sell for carpet today.

I do not see myself using this method but i have always been interested in other methods. A page from the manual below. This table was a true bar box so the strips did not mount to the side of the slate but laid flat on the cabinet with the tacks straight up. What do you guys think??:grin:
 

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Not a table mech but I'd say if you kept the cloth evenly stretched when you attach it that it would work ok. My main concern would be the cloth giving (tearing) at the tacks over time causing loosening. If I were going to do one I'd consider tape on the cloth edges to keep it from giving.

Now....I'm going to get the popcorn ready. :grin:
 
And you only have to put them down once. Did someone say they were never used before direct from the factory?
 
Great idea. I have a friend who installs carpet, so I'll have him recover my table next time, instead of having Donny drive all the way up from LA. :grin:
 
OTLB said:
And you only have to put them down once. Did someone say they were never used before direct from the factory?
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I said...Brunswick has never put tack strips on their production model pool tables...I knew about the coin-ops, as I've worked on them before, but they used them because of the undersized slates...which they discontinued production of...because they were junk.

I also said tack strips had been used in the past by others...and that you were NOT the first to come up with that failing idea:eek:

Glen

PS. Find ONE manufacture today using tack strips:rolleyes:
 
realkingcobra said:
I said...Brunswick has never put tack strips on their production model pool tables...I knew about the coin-ops, as I've worked on them before, but they used them because of the undersized slates...which they discontinued production of...because they were junk.

I also said tack strips had been used in the past by others...and that you were NOT the first to come up with that failing idea:eek:

Glen

PS. Find ONE manufacture today using tack strips:rolleyes:
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I heard Diamond was pregluing them on their tables to save glue costs and speed up recovers, actually can semi automate process
 
TheBook said:
How about installing Velcro strips on the cloth and on the slate?
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Velcro would probably give to much. Also little kids would be a problem pulling cloth loose. Hmmm........ the little kids would also be a problem with tack strips and shims.


Terry< I was a little kid once :sorry::grin-square:
 
scruffy1 said:
A Brunswick table with tack strips...straight from the factory??? That's an out right lie, but I suppose they only build ONE table that way, and it was just for you...right? You're stepping in it deep buddy!



Brunswick has NEVER built a table using tack strips, not from the factory...you're blowing smoke on that statement!!!
Click to expand...

This was an anonymous statement made by someone here a while back!LOL;)


I may have to go into witness protection program!!!

I knew i had worked on a couple tables back in the 80s at a bar and swore up and down they were tack strips but 20some years later, i could not be absolute certain they were factory. Then 5 years ago ran into another one in a home but had no camera. Today, found the 1968 manual for a bar box they had built using tack strips. They were the identical to the ones they sell for carpet today.

I do not see myself using this method but i have always been interested in other methods. A page from the manual below. This table was a true bar box so the strips did not mount to the side of the slate but laid flat on the cabinet with the tacks straight up. What do you guys think??:grin:[/QUOTE]

Funny , the instructions don't say a thing about using a knee-kicker to stretch the cloth . . . hmmmmmmmmm
 
wow , the quote bar worked funny on that - attributed RealKingCobra 's words to scruffy1 , and made scruffy1's words look like mine .
hope THAT confuses everyone !
 
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