Quite some time ago, a poster said he made his bar table play a lot tighter by redoing his rails himself, I think he said he made the shelves deeper, Does anyone remember that post and who the poster was? Thanks
Quite some time ago, a poster said he made his bar table play a lot tighter by redoing his rails himself, I think he said he made the shelves deeper, Does anyone remember that post and who the poster was? Thanks
Why not just get some procut rails from Ridgeback rails and be done with it? I assume we are talking about a Valley table here?
Why not just get some procut rails from Ridgeback rails and be done with it? I assume we are talking about a Valley table here?
There is a guy up around Carlisle PA doing it.
His tables play wonderful!
Pockets are tight but good.....
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irock,
I've attached a photo of a Valley Panther I modified to 4" corner pockets. Table plays terrific. Watchwed a British black ball event and tried to duplicate the table design. My solution does decrease the playing surface of the table but the reward is overwhelming.
Lyn
Here are pictures of a set of Ridgeback Pro rails on a Valley from the 70's. The only modification that I had to make was to cut the edge of the pocket liners to accommodate the extra length on the rails.
Extending the pocket shelfs on a coin op slate leads to quite a few problems, one being it cuts down the distance between the slate shelf to the back of the pocket, not much room there as is. Second problem is the pocket gully boot mounted at the bottom of the ball return track is angled down hill to return the balls when pocketed, but just barely clear the balls passing underneath the pocket shelf, extended shelfs change that to trapping the balls unless they pass under the slate shelf dead center. Then you have the problem of the balls hitting the back of the pocket and popping back out in the playing surface. It's a damn coin operated pool table, not a home table....if anyone wants deeper slate shelfs, buy a table designed for that and forget trying to make something into something it was never designed to be, a harder playing table!
irock,
I've attached a photo of a Valley Panther I modified to 4" corner pockets. Table plays terrific. Watchwed a British black ball event and tried to duplicate the table design. My solution does decrease the playing surface of the table but the reward is overwhelming.
Lyn