Top 10 Hack Attacks

[Tablemechanic]

Here is a good one, I do not know what they were thinking when the took this Gold Crown 3 apart but they sure did not know what they were doing. I have a feeling the nut plate was spinning in the rail and they just decided the best way was to rip it off. The second picture is when I was done with it. Another fun one is when someone drops off ten sets of Gold Crown rails to have them extended and put new cushions on them and they have at least 5 recovers worth of staples in them. Mostly 1/2" staples to, I want to shot the guys who use 1/2" staples to recover pool tables.


Steve

 

[hilla_hilla]

Here is a good one, I do not know what they were thinking when the took this apart but they sure did not know what they were doing. I have a feeling the nut plate was spinning in the rail and they just decided the best way was to rip it off. The second picture is when I was done with it. Another fun one is when someone drops off ten sets of Gold Crown rails to have them extended and put new cushions on them and they have at least 5 recovers worth of staples in them. Mostly 1/2" staples to, I want to shot the guys who use 1/2" staples to recover pool tables.


Steve

Wow!

 

[n10spool]

That was by far the 2nd worst I have ever seen in along time. I did one when I first moved to Sacramento The guy and 4 friends dicided to move the table they removed 14 bolts but forgot about the one's on each side of side pocket . They snapped all 4 rails in half and thought I could fix it with new cloth for under $350.

As for a newer table that takes the cake what you ran into.
I watched a guy assemble 2 Kim Steel tables $80 a piece per table,and broke the end slates because he didnt understand thier leveling system. The guy claimed to have experince broke 2 slates in half on a curve on the ends 2nd diamond to 2nd diamond foot to side rail. The owner got what he paid for new $4,200 each +$80 per install

 

[Cuephoric]

Wow! Your number 7 I don't think that can be beat. Never heard of that one, I would track that guy down. Are you talking JB weld type putty? I probably would have left.

Liquid steel. It turns a three piece slate table into a one piece slate........Pretty much permanantly.
Good luck when you're trying to remove or seperate it.

 

[Cuephoric]

I was refered to a pool hall here in Sacramento Ca. and he pays to kids to recover tables in Simonis and they fold the corners also bed & rails all loose.

I told him I can fix the loose cloth on the bed, rails and reglue or replace the rubber also. I shot him a low price and he countered it @ $50 a table since he already payed the other guys to do it wrong. now he is geting ready to sell his business.

Craig

But think of how much time they are saving the future buyer in stripping the rail rubbers when they redo all of those tables! Most of those tables are being held together by the rail cloth (which is also coming out of the featherstrips by the way), and the seams are cutting the cloth on roughly 13 of the tables, but at least they have almost three level tables in the back-
RKC knows where this place is,too!lol

 

[Cuephoric]

I still think that the guy I know in Sac, who paid some guys to sawzall his table apart to move it ,takes the cake. You just can't buy that kind of pain!
Craig posted something about it awhile back, but the guy took the table to the dump before we could get pictures of it!
If that isn't the epitome of "hack"work, I don't know what is......lol


I had a table move last year, where the guys that were hired to move a table, left it set up inside of a stock trailer, and busted out the rails, cracked a slate, and cracked the legs on one end carrying it out of the house, and loading it up.
Only an 8 foot table, but they never even turned a wrench.
I was asked to get it out and ready for an annual family reunion tournament that same weekend.
Anyone know how many wasp nests you can fit into a 16 foot stock trailer in California?

 

[ChrisShanklin]

I knew of a crab house who switched ownerships and wanted to get there two valleys out. The owner thought they were too heavy so he chainsawed them in pieces.

 

[GregoryGrc]

Another one.

This one not nearly as bad as most mentioned here but last weekend I leveled and recovered an Ebonite 9 footer. This one had 1" unframed slate with the cloth stapled to a wood strip surrounding the slate edges. As I reached under to strip the old cloth out of the side pockets I noticed that it was held down with USPS postal packing tape! At least the corners were done correctly...

As an aside the customer wanted Granito Tournament 2000 cloth which I just say is great to work with and is equal if not better than Simonis.

 

[santeetech]

Today's hack attack

Went to do a 7ft AMF at the local VFW. Found every rail bolt cross threaded. Ordered new old stock rail set for them. Poor guy, it was a "...family helping out...".