I have been over to Burton on Trent for the hottest two days of the year where the temperatures hit 33 deg
The work was re-rubber set of steel cushions and re-cover and also replace the nets and leathers .
quality is one area GCL billiards will not let standards fall , rather than fit lower cost Chinese rubber we always use UK Retford Nottinghamshire based Northern rubber
which is regarded as the best Billiard table rubber in the world .
two angles a middle angle and a corner angle , these where exact copy of pocket openings of the original table , having manufactured on site a cardboard template to reproduce the same opening as before but maybe with a slight opening up of the rear .
You may notice the smooth rounded rasped and sanded finish to the rubber , no rough cut sharp angles but a nice smooth entry to the undercut of the rubber .
Steel cushions are not easy to do , they weigh so much more than a standard wooden cushion , and are not easy to handle .
The cushion in the process of being re-clothed , this is also a fine art to forming the cloth around the corner and middle angles without wrinkles and creases .
the 5 section 2 inch thick Welsh slate bed , this has to be cleaned of all old chalk dust and compacted spot dust .
also the area around the bottom cushion has a tendency to accumulate a lot of dust as brushing directs it down to that end , this also compounds and solidifies forming a ramp of compact dust
hence why some balls can come off the bottom cushion and jump upwards and banging back down around 6 inch from the bottom cushion .
this is one reason along with others that you may experience ball lift up at rebound .
Bed cloth fitted Strachan 6811 tournament 30 oz grade , the line is to mark the spot locations out upwards from end of slate.
the transfer on the underside of the cloth
aligning the cushions back on , the pocket openings have to be spot on for steel cushions to align the rear woodwork , if they are out of alignment the wood will not bolt back on .
you have to align the bolt holes in cushion woodwork and end pocket alignment which is a rather tricky job .
Click on any photo for a close up .
almost finished , Frank inspecting the table .
our clients where delighted with the work and the way we went about it .
this two table club I have visited many times in the past 40 years . they know me very well and can trust me to carry out work to high standard .
after working in 33 deg temperatures I was very hot by the time I got Home lucky for me that I used to keep Koi Carp a few years ago but for the last 8 years it has become a salt water plunge pool
