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Question: Anybody ever take a pool table apart?

(Posted by: laburnic on 2010-02-10 08:23:34)

I have a monster pool table that I don't want, it needs a lot of work to be usable and I'd like to take it apart, hopefully someone can use the wood (its nice). anyone with experience can give me some pointers on how to do this?

Posted by: jammie on 2010-02-12, 00:06:48

Who they use and LET them KNOW you'd pay CASH for help ;) It should cost you only a couple of hundred dollars to re`felt it for you, or move it, or get it functional again. TRUST me, you do NOT want to do this on your own *if* you want to play/use the table again. It takes *ideally* two men. How do I know this???? I am a tavern owner. My sister was a "hall" owner and my sis and dad were professional pool players. I have a functioning pool table in my basement that two fellas gladly moved in for me and re-felted for me one afternoon. If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to ask me.

Posted by: Carin on 2010-02-10, 18:19:38

Some tables have a one piece slate and others have 2 or 3 sections of slate, which accounts for much of the weight. To take a pool table apart, you should be able to take the rails off, take the top off ( the slate ) and remove the legs. All of the components are heavy. If your not saving the table, all the better to take apart, because you will not have to worry about damaging the parts. Remember all the pool table parts are very heavy. This is one man's opinion.

Posted by: Adam on 2010-02-10, 19:36:26

Take the pockets out first and then take out the rails. Once you take out the corner piece that ties the rails together at the end you should be able to pop out the tacks for the pockets. Rails more than likely bolt from underneath. Make sure you mark how everything comes apart so that if you do decide to put it together some day you can. Pull the staples on the felt and role it up. If you do it carefully, you can reuse it. Let me know if you need help from there.

Posted by: lagjan on 2010-02-11, 02:44:58

I know that this doesn’t have to do with video gaming, but it is gaming related so I’m going with it. Today I started to take apart our pool table. My father-in-law bought this pool table from Montgomery Wards in 1975 making the pool table only slightly younger than me. For years it stayed in his basement where he, my wife and my brother-in-law would play pool. When Linda and I were dating, we played on this table many times, under the fluorescent lights of the basement, sneaking kisses in between the constant parental interruptions that they conducted under the guise of needing food from the basement pantry. When my father-in-law decided that he didn’t want the pool table any more, he offered it to my brother-in-law, presumably because Dan played more pool, but more realistically because Dan has always been offered everything first, but being that Dan was in Oregon, shipping a slate pool table 3000 miles from upstate New York wasn’t going to happen. So then it was offered to us and we accepted. So, my father-in-law took it apart, drove it to our house in Virginia and put it together in the basement that he, Linda and myself renovated where it stayed for a few years until he took it apart again, only this time for it to be moved by Linda and I to our current house in Georgia. Upon arriving here, I put it back together until today, when I disassembled it, probably for the last time. Despite having my own pool table, I am terrible at pool. Far, far better than Linda, but still, pretty bad. My college roommate Dennis and I used to play all the time, both in college, and then on Thursday nights when he moved to Virginia, but I never seemed to get any better. In fact, the only time I would ever show any improvement was when Led Zeppelin came on the radio in the student union. Not sure why that mattered, but my game improved nonetheless and if it didn’t, hey, it’s Zeppelin on the radio. It’s hard to get upset at that. In college, people used to joke with me about having such a crappy game of pool because I was a physics major and pool is all physics. Well, as it turned out, I had a pretty crappy game of physics too. Neither got better over the years, to my continual disappointment. See, I’m not good at any sport, not a one, and pool, being a kind of non-sport sport, I thought it could be the one sport I’d end up being good at. My dad worked his way through college hustling pool, so my hopes were high that genetics would eventually show me some favors, but it never happened. I still enjoyed playing though, well, as much as one can enjoy anything they constantly lose at. Really, it was never about the pool, it was about just hanging out and having fun. Talking comics with Dennis after hitting up the Starbucks on a Thursday night, or sneaking a kiss with Linda before her mom came down looking for pasta sauce.