HOW-TO: Recover Valley Pool Table Rails like Real King Cobra! 

Relax, this is terrible work 😂

Instead of just deleting your post, id rather hear from you, about what you think is wrong with my work.

​@@therealkingcobra: I respect that you call that guy out, rather than remove comment. I do prefer to stretch the fabric a little more, and one staple was too close to edge of facing. Overall, LOOK NICE 👍.

Yes, all cloths have different stretch indexes, based on the making of the cloth. So the first time you use a petiqular cloth, you need to perform a stetch index test so you'll k ow how much to stretch it when installing it.

Terrible work if you know how wrong he really is

Really, care to explain?

@@therealkingcobra the easier someone makes something look, the more skilled they are

Absolutely not. Terrible work

You seem to be the only one with a complaint, care to explain yourself?

​@@therealkingcobraHe's the guy that recovered the rails incorrectly, and now he's angry with you for pointing out all of his mistakes! Haha! 😂🎉😅

Thank you, glad I could help.

Yup. That's what I'm here for as well. Still trying to perfectly fold and de-bulk the Valley style rails. I like how this guy put a staple to lock the fold in place, then cover the staple with the flap.

@@hightttech A trick of the trade, very good to know. 👍

Tighten the 12 rail bolts to 15ft pounds of torque.

3M77

Spraying both, the cloth and rail. You'll see in these next instructional videos.

@@therealkingcobra looking forward to them Glen.

Strachan Superweave

I don't like the no fold side pockets because of the effect it has on the pocket miter angle, and the stress it puts the cloth under on the points of the cushions. All featherstriped rails have folded side pockets, so why would anyone think Valley bar tables shouldn't? And think about this for a second, what tables have the worst reputation for playing so bad? Valley bar style pool tables, why? Because of the lack of professionalism when servicing them, because they're considered to be unimportant in this industry!!!!

I use the 3M77 for the rails and my RKC250/Slocum V4117 for the bed cloth, cushions, and facings.

Well, first of all, I'm the one that actually designed the Ridgeback rails in the first place, then taught Kerry how to build them, creating the Ridgeback rails business. Penguin rails have come a long way since they first started building replacement rails, so I don't have any issues with them today either. The problem with either rails, is neither will play right if the cloth isn't installed right, and the slate depth isn't set right, so the rails CAN play right. I've been spray glueing rails for 40+ years, and fail to see a downside to that method if installing the rail cloth, but I've seen plenty of problems with using staples to install the rail cloth. My method of instalation of the rail cloth would be hard for anyone to do a better job, and the finished look shows that.

The cloth I installed was the Strachan Superweave green. This is absolutely, hands down, the best bar table cloth on the market today. I just replaced the cloth on 3 Diamond 8ft bar tables after 14 months of play, and the cloth still didn't show any cue ball break lines to the rack, and now ball racking wear.

@therealkingcobra Do you have an email I can contact you through I'm actually in the middle of refurbishing a ZD7 93 model Valley pool table and have a few questions

Realkingcobra@aol.com

Yet they don't complain about the folds in the side pockets on a featherstriped set of rails, like on a 9ft😅🤣

valley doesn't sell tables with folded side pockets, ever wonder why? my take is if you are going to do a fold over, make it look good. great tutorial. diamond tables do folded side pockets. your league players sound like mine. they always blame the table for their missed shots.

Oh thank you so much. This guy is a joke 🤣🤣🤣

Do the work however you want, but I don't like how the no fold rounds the side pockets, and the facings wear through the points because of the no fold method, so hack away buddy😅🤣

@@therealkingcobra I wasn't looking to make a thing of this, Buddy, but when I do rails I do them with out needing that dumb fold and this "wear" that you are trying to sell simply does not happen with the way I do them. Maybe just try a little instead of taking the easy way out.

😅🤣😂

@@therealkingcobra 🙏

1/4" × 1/2" crown, unless the wood is pretty stapled out, then I step up to either 5/16" or 3/8" if needed, but the next recovery is with new replacement rails at that time, or get someone else to recover the table!!

It can if it stands 5' 11" tall and weighs 295lbs😅🤣