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Homeowner Forum / Repair / July 2008Pool Table Repair
I just finished reassembling my pool table after months of having it sit waiting for new flooring. I got the base reconstructed, put the slate on the base, shimmed, and put the screws in the slate to hold it to the base. I can sit a ball anywhere on the table, and it doesn't roll. It is a three piece slate. I need to find what to use to spread over the joints and fill the screw holes. A fellow suggested a product called "Rock Hard", but I can't find it. I don't know if it's something you would find at a pool table shop, or at the borg. It needs to dry hard and be sandable. It will take very little wear, and be covered by felt. Any ideas? Steve  Signature"...the man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic-the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done." Theodore Roosevelt 1891 > I just finished reassembling my pool table after months of having it > sit waiting for new flooring. I got the base reconstructed, put the [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Steve Durham's Water Putty. it has "rock hard" right on the label. SignatureJim Yanik jyanik at kua.net > I just finished reassembling my pool table after months of having it > sit waiting for new flooring. I got the base reconstructed, put the [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > be covered by felt. > Any ideas? The usual...Bondo. Durham's Water Putty is basically plaster. Bondo is talc in polyester resin. Both sand easily, Bondo will be harder (more dense) and probably stick better. SignaturedadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ...a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico On 7/30/2008 10:46 AM SteveB spake thus: > I just finished reassembling my pool table after months of having it sit > waiting for new flooring. I got the base reconstructed, put the slate on [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > at a pool table shop, or at the borg. It needs to dry hard and be sandable. > It will take very little wear, and be covered by felt. I think you're thinking of something called "Rockite", a box of which I have sitting before me. It's basically a very strong cementitious grout, made for anchoring stuff and patching. Got mine, oh, about 25 years ago, so I have no idea where to get it, though the Borg may have it. ('Twas made by someone called Hartline Products in Cleveland, OH.) Signature"Wikipedia ... it reminds me ... of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abyss of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash." - With apologies to H. L. Mencken >I just finished reassembling my pool table after months of having it sit >waiting for new flooring. I got the base reconstructed, put the slate on [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > >Steve I've always used wax. Melt in double boiler, poor into joints (tape the edges) and holes. Wait until it sets. slice off excess with razor blade. This is what the pro's who first installed it used. HTH, Paul F. On Jul 30, 1:42 pm, Paul Franklin <pffranklin.nos...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >I just finished reassembling my pool table after months of having it sit > >waiting for new flooring. I got the base reconstructed, put the slate on [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Paul F. 3rd time is a charm Paul is correct - Wax. >I just finished reassembling my pool table after months of having it sit >waiting for new flooring. I got the base reconstructed, put the slate on [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Steve Have to go with a previous poster .. use melted wax. Durham's rock hard water putty. The best product for the task. Signature______________________________ Keep the whole world singing . . . . DanG (remove the sevens) dgriff237@7cox.net >I just finished reassembling my pool table after months of having >it sit waiting for new flooring. I got the base reconstructed, [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Steve |
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