Pool Table Assembly

Today we completed a pool table assembly in Denver. It was a standard, ball-in-claw, drop pocket table. The customer disassembled the table himself and unfortunately nothing was marked.

It took a while, but we managed to get everything back in it's original place.

Valley coin operated pool table

This Fort Collins customer owned an original Valley coin operated barbox table. We were pool table movers on this day.

These tables are really easy to work on. first we removed the chrome trim around the table. This required a #2 phillips head.

Once the trim pieces were removed, we removed the bumpers. These hold the slate in place. We used a 1/2 inch socket.

Once the bumpers were removed, the slate was accessible. At this point, you simply pick up the slate (which weighs about 500 pounds). The white spots on the cloth were caused by some previous water damage. The customer chose not to replace the cloth.

With the slate removed, the inside of the barbox is exposed.

Now we remove the legs, and that's it. The body moves as one piece (which weighs about 500 pounds too)!

Here is the table reassembled in the new location. It would have looked better with new cloth, but it just wasn't in the budget.

1950's Victor Pool Table

The other day we assembled a 1950's Victor pool table with a ball return.

In these first set of photos, we are assembling the frame.

Now it's time to assemble the ball return. The ball return was a series of 4 flexible metal rods connected by some o-rings. Victor lined the rods with plastic and this was marketed as the first "silent" ball return table.

Watch this video where we tested the ball return. This was extremely important to make sure all the balls traveled smoothly down the return contraption. We tested every pocket several times and at different speeds.

After the ball return was installed and working, we were ready to complete the installation which was fairly straight forward...slate, shims, cloth, rails, and leveling.

We reused the cloth which had glued pockets.

And finally....the finished table. It turned out really nice.