Warped rails making slate pop up?

fd_colorado

fd_colorado

Go Pack Go!!!
Silver Member
My buddy has a 9Ft. Brunswick Barrington, purchased new about 3 years ago.

His installer is saying that he can't keep the slates together because the rails are warped...is this a possibility?

The installer says that Brunswick won't give him new rails.

Is there any easy way to see how true the rails are? He wants to put on new cloth, but doesn't want to have the rails fault line again.

He has been patiently waiting for RKC to pass through CO....zzzzzzzzzzz.

Any ideas?
 
fd_colorado said:
My buddy has a 9Ft. Brunswick Barrington, purchased new about 3 years ago.

His installer is saying that he can't keep the slates together because the rails are warped...is this a possibility?

The installer says that Brunswick won't give him new rails.

Is there any easy way to see how true the rails are? He wants to put on new cloth, but doesn't want to have the rails fault line again.

He has been patiently waiting for RKC to pass through CO....zzzzzzzzzzz.

Any ideas?
Click to expand...

Seems far-fetched to me. Slate screwed tight to the frame with the seams superglued shouldn't move. Remove a rail and check the top and bottom with a straightedge to see if it's warped.
 
The 3rd time around I convinced him to use the Super Glue and they still eventually separated. Usually every 6 months we use a torque wrench set at 12 ft. lbs. to check the rail bolts.
 
fd_colorado said:
The 3rd time around I convinced him to use the Super Glue and they still eventually separated. Usually every 6 months we use a torque wrench set at 12 ft. lbs. to check the rail bolts.
Click to expand...

It is possible. I have had it happen to me. I leveled all the slate out, seamed with super glue and bondo, then after putting the rails on, rolled a ball on the slate and it about hopped off the table after hitting the speed bumps in the middle. I was stumped for a while. I took the rails off, stripped the bed cloth to check the slate seams and they were fine other than a little of the crumbled bondo on the seams. Now I was really stumped. Put it all back together again, and same result. One more time took it apart and in the middle of loosening the rails, I WATCHED the bump in the middle of the table disappear. After that, I knew it must be something wrong with the rails. After sighting down them, it was obvious that they were warped and twisted really bad. I showed the customer, and he basically said just put it together because he wasn't going to play on it much anyway.
 
The problem is the slate wood screws are not holding the slate in place....trust me. Swich the slate screws out for 1/4" machine screws with washers and nyloc nuts, then use super glue...it won't happen again. Another reason it can happen is the shims on both sides of the seam don't have even pressure on them on both sides of the seam. I don't care how warped the rails are...they're not going to pop the seams, if that be the case Josh, Don and I rebuilt and put a Diamond Professional together in Vegas and on one of the long rails, once you started bolting it down at one end...the other end was about 3" off the slate and had to be pulled down using the rail bolts one at a time starting at the side pocket....because the rail bolts at the end of the rail...wouldn't even reach the rail;)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top