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Refelting Your Pool Table |
Leveling The Slate
Note: It has been suggested by one of our visitors, that using
sealing wax can cause issues... on hot days, it might melt, as well as when
ironing the felt.... I'm not sure how hot it gets where you're located, but if
it gets hot enough to start melting the wax inside your home, you probably live
in the middle of a desert, and have no air conditioning. And why on earth would
a person iron their felt??? It would take a lot to wrinkle a piece of billiards
felt so badly that it would need to be ironed prior to installation, and even
if there are a few wrinkles in your felt, stretching it will remove them.
Bottom line, don't worry about the wax...
It is a proven product
that is inexpensive,
it will do a great job, and you'll be happy with
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Next,
use your portable propane torch to heat up the joint between the two slabs of
slate...this will help draw the wax into the groove, and give you a better
seal. (you might notice what appears to be small cracks in the surface of the
slate...this is not uncommon on an older table. The ones you see here can't
even be felt...if you have some like this, don't worry about them. If you have
a hairline crack that you can feel, run some wax over it as well.) |
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Then, melt the wax onto the surface of the
joint. |
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An inch or two on either side of the joint is
perfect. |
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Once the wax hardens (just a minute or so...if you
allow it to get too hard, it will be very difficult to scrape it off.), use
your putty knife to scrape off the majority of the excess wax, and then, use a
razor blade to get it really smooth. Don't allow the wax to sit for too long,
or it will be very hard to scrape off the excess. |
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