Did this for a living for 2 years before the recession. Bloody hard work installing repairing tables. My dads done this all this life he’s 63 now and still does it. B&A Snooker and Pool
I was one of the team that moved a used table from a closed club to our club, assembled & adjusted it. Having a suspended timber floor we first had to cast concrete piers into the ground below & get them a level as possible. Re-assembly of the table was not difficult, we made the pocket templates from official drawings but got professional cloth fitters to do the hardest bit. Cushion fitting was easy.Working for the Navy Dept I "borrowed" a very accurate level called a clinometer which was used for the inclining experiment on ships, so our table was as level as any professional one. Happy days, unusual experience.
Man, i am looking for pocket templates or a hole snooker project but i can't find it....can you help me?... Sorry about my English..it's not my language..
In my technical world, the words I hate to hear are,"You just". I note that these guys never said that. Each miniscule element is measured, considered, and done appropriately, down to paper thickness. There is no repair to anything, it's done correctly, or start over. Good men. I'd appreciate working with them.
@@bountyhuntermk2520 Scott, my work is just like many people's, including these guys. "You just" put a table together doesn't begin to touch on the technical demands which are foundational to success. Many people accomplish tasks all-day which are seemingly mundane.
3:58 show that to kids for sex ed.: "It should be firm to go in with some resistance, but not compressing the rubber...And that's fairly tight..." top lad, top explanation.
I was on holiday once and I remember watching the Crucible team from Rileys who had been flown in at great expense take two whole days to assemble level and cover a top-of-the line brand spanking new championship snooker table. Not only that but I won the draw to be the first to ever to play on it. I was nearly wetting myself with excitement. What a shock I had. It was absolutely awful. Criminally bad in fact - our local club table was far better. The balls were rolling off left right and centre all over the shop, and unless you fired them in at warp speed you couldn't pot a bloody thing. I don't think I have ever been so disappointed in all my life, before or since, and I vowed there and then that I would never ever go on another cruise.
If its numbered ..having a reason! No criticism..but understanding! Handmade projects! Taking care about detail. Even the floor is different in the starting room to the real room once. Differences to solve afterwards! Respect for those workers.. it's not Ikea..it's like gondola builders: each piece having a reason to be at the right place! Nice!
@@andrewjenery1783they are usually kept at around 45-50°C and it make the balls run quicker and the baize kept dry There is a small temperature display that you can usually see on the edge underside of table if watching on TV.
This was perfect as a vanity desk for me. th-cam.com/users/postUgkxMAlHv7-BBWMrPRm5-uEoD6rtdT7SG2Qr Especially the glossy finish. Easy to cleanI was looking for something that wasn't the traditional white and with more of a modern feel. This fit the bill beautifully. I put it together with no problems, by myself in under an hour.Make sure you double check where you place the drawer tracks before screwing down. I had one track that needed to be aligned with different holes than the rest.
Proper skill this. Getting a surface that large to the tolerances needed is very difficult. Hats off to these chaps - and I have sod all interest in snooker...
That was quite interesting - I’ve stopped playing snooker years ago highest beak 47 which is a 100 away 😂 ... but interesting to watch thr tables being assembled 👍
@@geoffgreenhalgh3553 I played once or twice a week for 20 years, and my highest break was something like 32. Then I moved to a house that was next door to a snooker club, and went 4 times a week with my housemate, and I'd upped that to 53 within about 8-9 months. It's still way off what a decent club player can do, they hit centuries all the time, but it taught me two things, 1) that practice will always make you better at something, and 2) I was never destined to be any good at snooker lol.
Oh god, people. Get over it with the hardhats and the "cylindrical" thing. Use your head for a second. This is a construction site. they work unter the table too, which has massive wooden beams, sharp metal parts, heavy stone plates, etc. Additionally people may be working on the lighting and tv rigs overhead. And when talking about ball to ball or ball to wall interaction only a small strip around the equatorial plane of the ball actually touches. Thus thinking about the ball as a cylinder makes perfect sense. geez
I used to work in a candy factory years back, and those hats were mandatory, boy am I glad I wore those, when cleaning things underneath conveyor belts I have smashed that hat into metal bars etc so often.
I am a very strong guy and I almost fainted on the fifth slate during my home snooker table installation together with Riley fitter from UK. Although we didn't have such luxury as special slate dolly because I'm in US and it's not practical overseas. They are indeed 200kg each if not more depending on Chinese vs. Italian slate. It is the heaviest shit I've ever lifted in my life.
@@arthurvin2937 Those two guys in the video are not lifting 200kg. I been working on construction sites for almost 30 yrs and i know how heavy 200kg is.
@@ColinFlowers It does take special training, and there are different slate thicknesses available - from 160 kilos to 250kg for premium thick slate. When mine slates arrived, stack of 5 on the reinforced pallet, the truck driver couldn't unload it because heavy duty forklift jack malfunctioned right away. I had to drive to the local Home Depot for rental and still it could barely lift it 1cm off the ground. Here's the quote from fcsnooker website: an average snooker table weighs in at 1150 kg and the thick welsh slate bed tables can be up to 1400kg. It's in kilograms.
@@corallaroc2946 how much is to have it installed? Do people get another person to do it or the delivery person does it for a fee too? What happen with Riley tables? They used to be good and used by professionals. Are they not as good as before?
@@SimonCU I am not an expert on what happened to Riley, I guess Star tables offered more to WST to have their tables showcased, also now Star is being replaced by Rasson in some events. Usually you buy the table from a store that has the know-how to assemble it. Transport alone is quite burdensome and once you put the plates anywhere, they are basically immobile. So it doesn't make much sense to have the components delivered and then not assemble them straight away. In Germany, delivery and assembly is around 500€ + cloth (~400€), cannot speak for other countries but I guess the rarer the game, the higher the price.
Me and my brother got one for Christmas and my dad had it up in less than twenty mins tops. And it was in the front room too not in a big hall like that I don’t know what they’re playing at
Rick sees your bubble. But he dabbles in precision engineering. If you think your cave man eye and a bubble can make perfect level, you're in for a rude awakening.
I used to do this for my job, its harder than you think, reclothing and leveling up. Also transporting precision slate is also another story, a couple pre truck and laid flat, so easy to break or make little crack dents and shards.
I very much doubt you could move one in one piece. The slate would move under its own weight. Since the very earliest tables they have always been built in situ. Reclamation yards often sell the slate slabs from unwanted old tables.
I wanted to see the level on after the felt put on. Now way would it be level with that accurate of a level. Just saying. Great video tho. Very interesting to watch.
Why shave the frame rails? Wouldn't using wooden dowels be much better to level the slates? I feel when you remove the tables and reassemble them, you're only hurting yourself down the road.
The gentlemen wear helmets. I'm interested to know how many head injuries there have been in rebuilding pool tables in history and why billiard players do not wear them
You assume that they are the only people working in this venue. Considering the lighting, etc may be getting installed simultaneously - then the area they are working in would legally be defined as a worksite, and thus PPE is required by law.
was really hoping this would be a championship for building snooker tables
I think that would be the most English thing that ever existed.
lol😂
yeah someone might have got a maximum 🙄.
Same😂😂
That only works if 'world snooker' is at the start.
Did this for a living for 2 years before the recession. Bloody hard work installing repairing tables. My dads done this all this life he’s 63 now and still does it. B&A Snooker and Pool
Hi Chris.
I'm interestrd to know how often are club tables serviced, and/or recovered?
Cheers.
Never realised that amount of time and effort went in to the table. Very interesting.
I actually thought the tables just got delivered 😅
@@jacksdjfam Same here. I assumed they got delivered in one piece, and it was just a matter of levelling the legs out.
@@johnbull1568 Exactly what i thought
@@johnbull1568 You thought a 12ft by 6ft slate-bed table got delivered ready built? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
I was one of the team that moved a used table from a closed club to our club, assembled & adjusted it. Having a suspended timber floor we first had to cast concrete piers into the ground below & get them a level as possible. Re-assembly of the table was not difficult, we made the pocket templates from official drawings but got professional cloth fitters to do the hardest bit. Cushion fitting was easy.Working for the Navy Dept I "borrowed" a very accurate level called a clinometer which was used for the inclining experiment on ships, so our table was as level as any professional one.
Happy days, unusual experience.
Man, i am looking for pocket templates or a hole snooker project but i can't find it....can you help me?... Sorry about my English..it's not my language..
I’d never have guessed the assembled table is knocking on 1 tonne in weight. Incredible.
In my technical world, the words I hate to hear are,"You just".
I note that these guys never said that.
Each miniscule element is measured, considered, and done appropriately, down to paper thickness. There is no repair to anything, it's done correctly, or start over. Good men. I'd appreciate working with them.
MarkH10 “in my technical world” you pretentious hand pump. I would not tire of issuing you the hair side of my hand.
@@bountyhuntermk2520
Scott, my work is just like many people's, including these guys.
"You just" put a table together doesn't begin to touch on the technical demands which are foundational to success. Many people accomplish tasks all-day which are seemingly mundane.
What a great video. This is an artform. Precise construction and freehand artistry all in one.
This is a very important video. Thanks for sharing!
Better wear a hard hat incase a table falls from the ceiling
MrEd
Lol
health and safety gone mad!
@Digdug30 no it isnt dont spread lies.
@Digdug30 no it isnt.
@Digdug30 sure. So you rather people died from preventable accidents because what? The future is bad?
o wow I have no idea this is hand build from scratch for the tournaments!!! Learn something new every day :-)
Thanks for posting! I'm watching Ronnie O'Sulivan vs Shaun Murphy at this time...
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I never realize how to build a snooker table, but this is Amazing, handmate, I like this video!!
Nice to see the tables being build after all those years watching Snooker! :)
Excellent! Amazing to watch them putting that table together, thanks1
Massive skill.
kalle kanin Never done a day of work in your life.
Skill to put together a table? lol.
Easy to be honest, basically a lego kit with big pieces, difficult to get it wrong.
Morons who have never setup a pro table need not comment.
@@telinoz1975 - 8 year old could do it with a blindfold on.
3:58 show that to kids for sex ed.: "It should be firm to go in with some resistance, but not compressing the rubber...And that's fairly tight..." top lad, top explanation.
Grow up.kiddo..
Cool video, always wondered how much work was involved in moving these from event to event. Heaps more than I thought.
and there was me thinking the tables were just folded up and chucked in a Ford Transit.
This was very interesting, I enjoyed it a lot more than I expected :D
I was on holiday once and I remember watching the Crucible team from Rileys who had been flown in at great expense take two whole days to assemble level and cover a top-of-the line brand spanking new championship snooker table. Not only that but I won the draw to be the first to ever to play on it. I was nearly wetting myself with excitement. What a shock I had. It was absolutely awful. Criminally bad in fact - our local club table was far better. The balls were rolling off left right and centre all over the shop, and unless you fired them in at warp speed you couldn't pot a bloody thing. I don't think I have ever been so disappointed in all my life, before or since, and I vowed there and then that I would never ever go on another cruise.
Well I got the joke even if no-one else did!!
Good one
not funny
IKEA send their elite team
Realthinx 😭😭
If its numbered ..having a reason! No criticism..but understanding! Handmade projects! Taking care about detail. Even the floor is different in the starting room to the real room once. Differences to solve afterwards! Respect for those workers.. it's not Ikea..it's like gondola builders: each piece having a reason to be at the right place! Nice!
That's class. Skilled men.
Well that was interesting. I had no idea what was involved
Who knew snooker tables were heated ?🤔
Good question and I wonder how much they're heated?
@@andrewjenery1783they are usually kept at around 45-50°C and it make the balls run quicker and the baize kept dry
There is a small temperature display that you can usually see on the edge underside of table if watching on TV.
@@jrsc01. Would certainly make the balls behave differently.
“Because the ball’s cylindrical...”
I think he means spherical.
No he means cylindrical
Now that would be a mad game
Great video. How much is a championship quality like this cost?
This is actually more interesting than snooker.
This was perfect as a vanity desk for me. th-cam.com/users/postUgkxMAlHv7-BBWMrPRm5-uEoD6rtdT7SG2Qr Especially the glossy finish. Easy to cleanI was looking for something that wasn't the traditional white and with more of a modern feel. This fit the bill beautifully. I put it together with no problems, by myself in under an hour.Make sure you double check where you place the drawer tracks before screwing down. I had one track that needed to be aligned with different holes than the rest.
Proper skill this. Getting a surface that large to the tolerances needed is very difficult. Hats off to these chaps - and I have sod all interest in snooker...
i liked the part where he said 27 years
snooker maestro why?
because who can believe 1990 was 27 years ago!
It’s 28 yrs
Tez it's 19 years m8 I'm watching this in 2019
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Love the way they make it look like a 20 minute job, in my club we have 2 star tables and they take close to 5 hours for everything to be assembled
Didn’t santa get you a shirt for christmas?
J Fitz #Bosh #BackOfTheBet #1NilToThee
They work really good
Not surprised they won the Table assembling Championship.
I wonder who plays on the tables that are not that well assembled.
Really 'interesting Steve Davies' would be proud of this. Thought they brought tables in not build them. Good work
That was quite interesting - I’ve stopped playing snooker years ago highest beak 47 which is a 100 away 😂 ... but interesting to watch thr tables being assembled 👍
That's a good break, mine is 32. 4 reds and 4 blacks.
@@geoffgreenhalgh3553 I played once or twice a week for 20 years, and my highest break was something like 32. Then I moved to a house that was next door to a snooker club, and went 4 times a week with my housemate, and I'd upped that to 53 within about 8-9 months.
It's still way off what a decent club player can do, they hit centuries all the time, but it taught me two things, 1) that practice will always make you better at something, and 2) I was never destined to be any good at snooker lol.
When I was about 12 I quite literally fluked a 30 something break, including a length of the table angled red that I wasn't aiming for
Very interesting. I often wondered about it as I like snooker.👍☘️
Who knew snooker balls were cylindrical. I've been playing with spherical ones all my life....I had no idea...
another killer comment!
Aha! That explains why my maximum break is 8.
Love the precision.
that was really craftsman
Oh god, people. Get over it with the hardhats and the "cylindrical" thing. Use your head for a second. This is a construction site. they work unter the table too, which has massive wooden beams, sharp metal parts, heavy stone plates, etc. Additionally people may be working on the lighting and tv rigs overhead. And when talking about ball to ball or ball to wall interaction only a small strip around the equatorial plane of the ball actually touches. Thus thinking about the ball as a cylinder makes perfect sense. geez
I must get a hard hat before i put my wardrobe flat pack together and to make sure my corners are not cylindrical.
Yes. A hard hat will save their life should anything fall from above.
We must wear one along streets to...just in case.
I used to work in a candy factory years back, and those hats were mandatory, boy am I glad I wore those, when cleaning things underneath conveyor belts I have smashed that hat into metal bars etc so often.
Dennis Pritchard especially if a pigeon cracks dump on your cranium! Not a good look
I had to wear a hard hat once....during Jury Service.....
I cant believe a snooker table weighs around a ton. That is absolutely mindblowing.
This is so cool. I wish I had a table like this.
we had one - a real pleasure to own and play - but games are much longer on a full size table.
The slate is in 5 sections and weighs about 150 kg per section, 2 strong guys made it look easier than it was
I work for a crew company called silverback and we help assemble these tables it's amazing
Absolutely fascinating
That tippex pen line is the hardest part of the whole thing lol
SCS could make "Snooker Tables Manufacturer Simulator 2018" xD
How comes they don't wear hard hats when playing?
it took me a minute to realize this is not a table-assembling competition.
the title got me misleading, English is difficult.
Roughly 200kilos each slate as two men lift one easily
I am a very strong guy and I almost fainted on the fifth slate during my home snooker table installation together with Riley fitter from UK. Although we didn't have such luxury as special slate dolly because I'm in US and it's not practical overseas. They are indeed 200kg each if not more depending on Chinese vs. Italian slate. It is the heaviest shit I've ever lifted in my life.
I think he meant pounds.
@@ColinFlowers no, it's kilograms.
@@arthurvin2937 Those two guys in the video are not lifting 200kg. I been working on construction sites for almost 30 yrs and i know how heavy 200kg is.
@@ColinFlowers It does take special training, and there are different slate thicknesses available - from 160 kilos to 250kg for premium thick slate. When mine slates arrived, stack of 5 on the reinforced pallet, the truck driver couldn't unload it because heavy duty forklift jack malfunctioned right away. I had to drive to the local Home Depot for rental and still it could barely lift it 1cm off the ground.
Here's the quote from fcsnooker website: an average snooker table weighs in at 1150 kg and the thick welsh slate bed tables can be up to 1400kg. It's in kilograms.
Where's the magnetic controls mounted underneath?
What temperature do they set the table at ? And what’s the name on those leveling brackets ?
oh i love this precision and this perfection... well, maybe i'm german through and through
If I have this table I will sleep on it every night. This is how much I love snooker.
Do you get anyone potting the difficult brown?
Those slates weigh 200kg and these two blokes liftet them up just like that?
No way. I'd believe they are 200kg in total
There are other comments about it and the conclusion is that it's right, 200kg and doable, not easy at all and surely not by me, but somehow doable
5:04 And the ball rolls to one side.
The reason he's wearing the hard hat is because in rehearsals for this video, he dropped the £10 note, and it hit him on the back of the head 😂
It's almost like watching a golf course being curated before a tournament. Absolute amazing skill
It is amazing how a video can make anything look sexy these days.
nice work there
onthelevelbilliards nice name there
What brand is this table? Are all professional table made by the same company? How much does it cost?
Star tables, around £9000 without assemly.
@@corallaroc2946 how much is to have it installed? Do people get another person to do it or the delivery person does it for a fee too? What happen with Riley tables? They used to be good and used by professionals. Are they not as good as before?
@@SimonCU I am not an expert on what happened to Riley, I guess Star tables offered more to WST to have their tables showcased, also now Star is being replaced by Rasson in some events.
Usually you buy the table from a store that has the know-how to assemble it. Transport alone is quite burdensome and once you put the plates anywhere, they are basically immobile. So it doesn't make much sense to have the components delivered and then not assemble them straight away.
In Germany, delivery and assembly is around 500€ + cloth (~400€), cannot speak for other countries but I guess the rarer the game, the higher the price.
are the hard hats in case the table falls on their heads?
Must be a good job, wish I had a tenner to chuck about lol
nice video. but why the heck the helmets?
Me and my brother got one for Christmas and my dad had it up in less than twenty mins tops. And it was in the front room too not in a big hall like that I don’t know what they’re playing at
Did Peter work for Padmores years ago?
Big respect for these people
No world championship on 18th April 2020 , its been cancelled till summer at earliest.
Had no idea that snooker tables in top venues had to be replaced.
Rick sees your bubble. But he dabbles in precision engineering. If you think your cave man eye and a bubble can make perfect level, you're in for a rude awakening.
I use a pool ball. Roll it slowly down or across the table just before the cloth goes on. Gravity does not lie.
Fantastic job looks perfect, what I'm surprised about the most is that they don't use a pneumatic staple gun.
That would be akin to putting water in a Scotsman's whisky
this was more exciting that the snooker championship it self
why is there a heater
was the hardhead really needed?
I used to do this for my job, its harder than you think, reclothing and leveling up.
Also transporting precision slate is also another story, a couple pre truck and laid flat, so easy to break or make little crack dents and shards.
its actually very easy for a "non-competition" assembly.
you wouldnt be able to tell it from whats depicted here if you werent a top class pro.
Precision. Love it!!!
What? The slate is heated? Something I never knew.
This is Strachan Snooker Table?
This is strangely exciting to watch.
Always thought it was a single piece of slate.I use One of those levels for my centre lathe.
Was there a time when tables were transported in one piece into the playing arena?
I very much doubt you could move one in one piece. The slate would move under its own weight. Since the very earliest tables they have always been built in situ. Reclamation yards often sell the slate slabs from unwanted old tables.
Which side of the table is up? I think the upside is where the black ball is situated. Someone?
I wanted to see the level on after the felt put on. Now way would it be level with that accurate of a level. Just saying. Great video tho. Very interesting to watch.
Thanks for uploading!
Why does it need heating? I'm not from a cold zone.
Why shave the frame rails? Wouldn't using wooden dowels be much better to level the slates? I feel when you remove the tables and reassemble them, you're only hurting yourself down the road.
We wanna see more behind the scenes from the Crucible!
I didn't quite get what he was saying. Did he say there's some sort of heaters?
Why they need the heater's under the table again?
What filler is in that tube they are using?
That is so much effort for this thing.
He's on the level.
Absolute craftsmen.
No matter what you see, there’s always more
What, the tables have heating built in?!
There are people talking, manufacturers noises, why on earth that background ‘music’. WHY??
Why the construction helmets?
Try lifting Welsh slate like that from a 1905 table.
I wanna play on that one
Judging by your picture you are too small to even hold a cue, let alone reach the table. ^^
Do not judge a book by its cover.
:P
2nd3rd1st, I don't think that's actually him
And you're not actually a B? Get outta here!
Why does the table needs heating pads?
The gentlemen wear helmets. I'm interested to know how many head injuries there have been in rebuilding pool tables in history and why billiard players do not wear them
You assume that they are the only people working in this venue. Considering the lighting, etc may be getting installed simultaneously - then the area they are working in would legally be defined as a worksite, and thus PPE is required by law.
Otto mate, you’re getting ahead of yourself with that question...😂
I'd be quite keen on steel toe capped shoes, more than a helmet.